Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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...

En clave femenina: presentación de Un canto a la memoria y Ellas bailan solas

6:00 pm (Hora Miami) ArtSpace – Koubek Center DESCRIPTION: La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta: En clave femenina: presentación de Rumberas matanceras, un canto a la memoria y Ellas bailan solas, con Roxana Coz Téstar y Yovana Martínez Milián. Estos dos libros sobre mujeres escritos por mujeres exploran la temática femenina, uno desde la ficción con historias sobre mujeres víctimas de violencia de género; y el otro desde la investigación del desarrollo musical de rumberas y...

¡Tómate una copa (en casa) y escribe mejor!, con Haydée Zayas-Ramos

7:00 pm (hora Miami) Event will be on Meet Tema: Escribir memorias como contar un chisme. DESCRIPCION: Lo primero es preguntarnos cómo se cuenta un chisme. El ingrediente principal es el tono, que incluye secreto, juicio, exageración y hasta humor. El tema se cuenta en una oración. La maestría está en el ritmo y las dosis en que se comparten los detalles. Siempre se debe dejar alguna interrogante para aclararla, si acaso, al final. Es decir, se va contando qué pasó, dónde, cuándo,...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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 Grammy Award-Winning Saxophonist Kenny G

GET TICKETS HERE The Books & Books Literary Foundation and Miami Book Fair are thrilled to host Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Kenny G for Life in the Key of G** . (Blackstone Publishing, $28.99).** Kenny G–the incomparable musician with the straight sax, the flowing hair, and some of the most memorable melodies in history–reveals the man behind the music in this indelible, fascinating, and funny memoir. Each ticket admits up to two (2) guests and includes (1) copy of LIFE IN THE KEY...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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...

First Draft: A Literary Social with Raquel V. Reyes

Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of free and informal writing events where community, craft, and rapid-fire creativity meet for monthly themed virtual salons where writers get social, share their work, and leave with great stories. Instructor: Raquel V. Reyes Theme: Humor as tone and tool. Keeping it light when the subject is heavy. Raquel V. Reyes writes Latina protagonists. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, won a LEFTY for Best...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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...

Speak Up: Creative Writing + Performance (Fall 2024)

Saturdays, September 14 — October 26, 2024, 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...

Presentación de El parlanchín extraviado, de Orlando González Esteva

4:00 pm (Hora Miami) Theater – Koubek Center Free event and parking DESCRIPTION: El escritor, poeta, ensayista e investigador cubano-americano Orlando González Esteva presenta su nueva obra El parlanchín extraviado, una compilación de textos breves acerca de Cuba y los cubanos en los que sobresalen la sátira y el humor. En este libro González Esteva, con su lucidez característica, sitúa a sus compatriotas frente al espejo para objetar algunos aspectos de la conducta cubana e instar...

An Evening With Amir Tibon on The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With his cell phone battery running low, Tibon texted his father: “The girls are behaving really well, but I’m worried they’ll lose...

An Evening With Don Lemon on I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America

Renowned journalist Don Lemon always had a complicated relationship with God. He cherished the Southern Black church he was raised in but struggled with the fundamentalist rejection of his right to exist as a gay man – one who wanted to marry his longtime love in a church wedding with all the traditional trimmings. In his work as a reporter, moreover, he saw his fellow Americans losing faith in a higher power, in institutions, and in each other. Setting out to understand the place that...

An Evening With Erik Larson on The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Abraham Lincoln’s November 6, 1860, election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter – a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.” At the heart of this...

An Evening With Clarissa Ward on On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, conflict journalist Clarissa Ward has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, Ward – who speaks seven languages – has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range, and with deep empathy finds a way to tell the hardest stories. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist is the...