Chris Potash and Joey Seeman are heading back to the 2024 Miami Book Fair to host a discussion panel on Saturday, November 23 at 11 a.m.
Miami Underground: What We Did Is Secret
In the alt-culture scene of 1980s Miami, artists, music makers, and scenesters mixed in the few party and cultural spaces the city offered, creating multidisciplinary events we thought of as “just parties and shows.” During that decade, more and more creatives settled in Miami, joining the natives who’d kickstarted it all in the grittier parts of South Beach, the Design District, and other neighborhoods west. By the time Hurricane Andrew hit in ’92, Miami was already entering its 2.0 cultural phase and heading toward what it is today, where Art Basel and the Ultra Music Festival anchor the seasons, and countless other cultural happenings can be found any day of the week. And yet it still takes a DIY attitude to break out and “make it” – here in Miami and beyond. Punk Under The Sun: Punk & New Wave in South Florida authors JOEY SEEMAN and CHRIS POTASH lead a discussion about Miami’s past and present DIY culture, with ALE CAMPOS and EMILIE MILGRIM of Miami-based band Las Nubes, Artifacts Gallery founder HOWARD DAVIS, and author and drummer JOEY MAYA (aka Joey Wrecked).