The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts ' extraordinary upcoming 2025-2026 season — its 20th — arrives at a moment when the value and even existence of arts funding and access are suddenly a wide-open question.

On the purely economic side of the ledger, the numbers this local institution runs up provide an impressive counterpoint to the naysayers: Since opening in 2006, the Arsht has attracted more than six million patrons, creating 11,500 jobs annually through its 400 events while serving 80,000 students with free cultural experiences that would likely not otherwise exist. It is, in short, a big, bright, multihued tile amidst a mosaic of hundreds of diverse, thriving Miami-Dade arts organizations, which a study by the county's Department of Cultural Affairs found to be "a sig

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