The Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association (GMFEA) is a not-for-profit corporation representing the broad spectrum of South Florida’s multi-ethnic community. Its member organizations maintain a commitment to producing excellent public celebrations and to expressing and championing this community’s cultural diversity.

Incorporated in December 1985, the Greater Miami Festivals & Events Association is comprised of South Florida’s major annual festivals with the central purpose of promoting the year-round schedule of special events to residents and visitors. Currently, the Association’s membership totals more than 50 festivals and special events groups, public agencies, institutions, and area businesses, with an aggregate annual attendance to their events in excess of 3.5 million participants. These members represent and are involved in producing an incredibly diverse range of community celebrations including major arts, film, literary and culinary events to parades, street festivals and fairs, youth sporting competitions, and historic, environmental, national and ethnic awareness events.