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The historical significance and contemporary
importance of the 2,500-year-old Miami Circle will be celebrated
and explored Dec. 6-8 in two events organized by the Working Group
for Pre-Modern Histories and Cultures at FIU.
The Miami Circle, discovered in 1998,
formed the ritual center of a community for many centuries. Before
falling into decline and eventual ruin with the arrival of the
region’s Europeans half a millennium ago, Tequesta Miami
had functioned as a major center of both commercial and cultural
exchange for centuries before that, much like the Miami of today.
Patricia Dolan’s Mouth of the
River, a 90-minute interactive work of theatre, dance and music
that explores the myths and roots of our community, will be performed
Fri., Dec. 6, and Sat., Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at FIU-University Park’s
Wertheim Performing Arts Center. The performance will feature
an integrated company of actors from FIU and the University of
Miami. For ticket information, call the FIU box office at 305-348-3789
or visit www.fiu.edu/~thedan.
“Medieval Miami and Its Parallels:
Crossroads Cities Around the Tropic of Cancer” will feature
a day of presentations by and discussions with specialists on
the world of the Miami Circle on Sun., Dec. 8, from 1-5 p.m. at
First Presbyterian Church of Miami, 609 Brickell Ave., Miami.
The symposium will offer a stimulating glimpse of life in medieval
crossroads cities around the world. Speakers will address not
only Tequesta Miami but other port cities in Asia and Africa that
lie near the Tropic of Cancer and functioned as major centers
of exchange around the year 1000. The symposium is free and open
to the public and includes a reception.
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