Nonfiction Workshop: Family History with Imagination with Maud Newton

This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Alannys Milano at amilano@mdc.edu. September 30, 2023, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST (3 hours) Virtual via Zoom (link provided after registering) Registration $65 It’s entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and ancestral harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards. Also, facts,...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...

Mauricio Macri presenta su libro, “Para qué”

Mauricio Macri presenta, “Para qué. Aprendizajes sobre liderazgo y poder para ganar el segundo tiempo” “Uno nunca sabe en qué momento va a encontrar su verdadera vocación. Pero si hay algo que aprendí es a no aceptar lo dado y estar siempre abierto. Es como el amor, se trata de una vibración que sólo se siente en el corazón. No hay que resignarse a vivir sin amor o a no encontrar la vocación. Están allí, esperándonos en algún lugar. Se trata de encontrarlos. Son nuestros para...

Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of Thinginess: Image and Detail as a Path to Meaning with Ella Jacobson

Tuesdays, October 3, 10, 17, 24 (4 weeks)  7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST (2 hours) In Person, MDC Wolfson Campus In this four-week workshop, we will look at how image and detail can be used to deepen meaning in creative nonfiction. The first session will focus on generating topics from image and detail. The remaining sessions will cover how image and detail can be used to strengthen dialogue, descriptions of setting and place, and characterization. Class readings will draw from Leslie Jamison, John...

Cine & Literatura con la película “Medardo”

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Consulado General de Ecuador en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al filme “MEDARDO”. Un filme sobre la vida del poeta ecuatoriano MEDARDO dirigido por Nitsy Grau, basado en hechos reales y filmado en Guayaquil. Producida y actuada por JULIO ORTEGA y la actriz venezolana LUPITA FERRER. Contará con la presencia de la Cónsul de Ecuador María Josefa...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...

Homenaje a Juan Rulfo

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al HOMENAJE A JUAN RULFO. Conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, ministra y artista plástica ADRIANA TORRES SÁNCHEZ y la actriz y periodista ADRIANA BIANCO, quienes comentarán sobre la vida y obra del escritor mexicano JUAN RULFO.   Adriana Bianco (Argentina)....

First Draft: A Literary Social with Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Community, craft, and rapid-fire creativity meet at our First Draft workshop series, monthly virtual salons where writers get social, share their work, and leave with great stories. Instructor: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri Theme: The Magic of the Natural World Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is a mixed South Asian American writer from Northern California. Her debut collection of short stories, WHAT WE FED TO THE MANTICORE (Tin House 2022), is a finalist for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and was...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...

Kathy Serrano presenta "Húmedos, sucios y violentos"

Sed / Suburbano Ediciones y Kathy Serrano presentan “Húmedos, sucios y violentos”. Los microcuentos de Húmedos, sucios y violentos […] son como un puño a la cara. Primero, la sacudida; luego, el desconcierto, la ofuscación; y al final, más tarde, cuando las emociones se han asentado, el moretón. (Pilar Quintana). Kathy Serrano, escritora, actriz, directora de teatro peruano-venezolana. Máster en Artes por el Instituto Estatal Ruso de Artes Escénicas de San...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...

Ricardo Sumalavia presenta "Historia de un brazo"

SEd / Suburbano Ediciones y Ricardo Sumalavia presentan “Historia de un brazo”, “Una novela ‘rara’ sobre el duelo, la paternidad y el sexo, con un héroe improbable: un tercer brazo con vida y mente propias que se convierte en el protagonista de una trama asombrosa”. (Luis Hernán Castañeda). Ricardo Sumalavia (Lima, 1968). Doctor en Letras por la Universidad de Burdeos. Vivió en Corea del Sur y Francia. Actualmente es profesor y director del Centro de Estudios...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...

AN EVENING WITH YUNG PUEBLO

Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, and Sacred Space present AN EVENING WITH YUNG PUEBLO We are so thrilled to announce that Yung Pueblo will join us for an in-person discussion in celebration of the release of The Way Forward (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99). In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. TICKETS REQUIRED: All...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2023)

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is...