Upcoming Events

Join us for a panel with three highly regarded Jewish American poets as they reflect on the life and work of midcentury poet Hyam Plutzik (1911-62), a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II. Rodger Kamenetz, Jacqueline Osherow, and Maxim D. Shrayer were part of a collective of 18 scholars working over a period of 15 years with editor Victoria Aarons to create  Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time – a collection of essays and selected poems.…

Heather Clark’s The Scrapbook: A Novel begins in the late 1990s with Harvard student Anna, who falls for Christoph, a visiting German student, and follows him to his home country. Their romance unfolds amid family legacies – including those of Anna’s grandfather, an American GI, and Christoph’s, a Nazi soldier. Traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism haunt them, reverberating through to the present. In Maggie Stiefvater’s The Listeners: A Novel, it’s January 1942 and the aristocratic owners of the elegant Avallon Hotel &…

Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History is Rich Benjamin’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather’s Haitian presidency, the secrecy that shrouded his family’s resulting wound, and his efforts to know his mother despite her painful past. Benjamin describes the emotional pain of his childhood and explores the turmoil that shaped his family, bringing a powerful story to light. In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe,…

In The River’s Daughter: A Memoir, leading whitewater guide Bridget Crocker traces her journey from a turbulent childhood in Wyoming after her parents’ divorce to rafting some of the world’s fiercest rivers. Amid danger, loss, and betrayal, the river becomes her teacher, showing her the possibilities of transformation through nature. In Trauma Plot: A Life, Jamie Hood tells the story of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage it leaves behind. Hood invokes infamous figures,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart shares powerful stories of identity, resilience, and self-discovery. From growing up between New Jersey and rural North Carolina without a father to embracing his voice as a gay Black man and rising through journalism, Capehart’s memoir is an inspiring account of identity, opportunity, and finding one’s voice along the way.…

Iddo Gefen’s Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory: A Novel, translated by Daniella Zamir, begins with the title character drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Her adult son, Eli, navigates handling his wacky mother, a missing hiker, and a possible romance with Tamara, a visitor to their family hostel. Then the Lilienblums build a company around its matriarch’s invention, making comedy out of startup culture and family secrets. In Ed Park’s An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories,…

Did you know that art can take flight? In this workshop, you’ll explore the magic of balance, color, and movement by designing your very own spiral mobile! Using vibrant shapes and patterns, you’ll craft an artwork that twirls and dances in the air. Watch as your creation comes to life, spinning and shimmering with every breeze – it’s art in motion! This event is a CREATE! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a FREE ticket to attend due to limited seating.…

In The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat shares tools to navigate the complex and often chaotic landscape of modern AI during an unprecedented era of technological growth. Through interviews with AI pioneers, he delves into the unstable trajectory of the technology’s development, its potential for modest benefits – and its potentially catastrophic consequences. In More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker investigates the implausible and often immoral visions of tomorrow imagined by tech titans such as Elon Musk,…

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, he examines this subject through a more prosaic – but equally rich – lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. Doggerel is a meditation on family, falling in love, friendship, and those who accompany us on our walk through life. With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin,…

Nominated for Best Children’s Album at the Latin Grammy Awards! Join three small giraffes – elegant and graceful – as they embark on a journey in search of the moon. During their travels, they meet new friends who guide them to their destination. Amid challenges, surprises, and valuable lessons, their necks will grow… for a lifetime. In the end, they will learn that behind every dream one wishes to achieve, there lies a wonderful world just waiting to be discovered!…

Reuven Fenton’s Goyhood: A Novel is the story of Mayer Belkin, a devoutly Orthodox man who discovers in middle age that he isn’t, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually adrift, Mayer embarks on a surreal road trip through the Deep South with his estranged twin, his mother’s ashes, an Instagram influencer, and a one-eyed dog, while grappling with God, identity, and marriage woes. In Jason Diamond’s Kaplan’s Plot: A Novel, Elijah returns to Chicago broken – his mother Eve is dying and his business has failed.…

THE BASS MUSEUM OF ART STATION  What’s a special moment you remember? Use it to become the main character in your mini story! Inspired by The Kaleidoscopic: Writing Histories Through the Collection, currently on view at The Bass Museum of Art, this fun activity invites you and your family to draw and write. Use pictures, words, and colorful collage to tell a memory – or dream up a new one. Fold it into a mini book and share. Every story is different,…

In Clémence Michallon’s Our Last Resort: A Novel, Frida and Gabriel have grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and search for a fresh start at the Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. It all feels like paradise – until a beautiful young woman is murdered, Gabriel is named a suspect, and even Frida can’t ignore the evidence mounting against him. In Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel,…

  Explore physical reactions by freezing everyday objects with liquid nitrogen! Watch as balloons, flowers, and other objects undergo a physical change when exposed to extremely cold temperatures – -321°F to be exact. And be sure to stay for our grand finale, as we create a simulated cloud, thunder and all!…

Attention families: your mission is to protect something you love on planet Earth! Together, you’ll imagine a story with your own characters on a fun adventure, take photos, draw, and add stickers to make a one-of-a-kind comic strip on iPad with Apple Pencil. Devices will be provided; recommended for kids and their parents or guardians, who must be present during the session. This event is an INNOVATE! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a FREE ticket to attend due to limited seating.…

Written by Conor McCreery and illustrated by Jibola Fagbamiye, the graphic novel Fela: Music Is the Weapon explores the life and times of Fela Kuti – the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. A profoundly influential musician who rose to global stardom in the 1970s, Kuti was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian military regime and a fierce advocate for Pan-African unity. Joining them in conversation are music journalist-filmmaker Nelson George and writer-musician Randall Grass.…

GRADES 3-7 Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo shares the author’s experiences immigrating from Cuba on the boat that both represented the pain of leaving everything behind, and the restoration of her ability to dream and hope. Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas retraces five hundred years of Jewish women who moved their families from Spain to Turkey to Cuba and finally Miami to flee persecution and find opportunity.…

María Cristina Fernández presenta En el nombre de la rusa, novela que destaca la importancia de la diversidad frente a la estandarización, intolerable cuando se trata de valorar la humanidad. En Los hijos de Sobek, Denis Fortún cuestiona los límites de la creación literaria, los misterios de la mente humana y las consecuencias de las obsesiones personales. Gastón Virkel llega con Hemos vencido el asco, una colección de cuentos que muestran la fragilidad de lo cotidiano y hacen de esa intemperie materia literaria.…

Charles C. Bohl’s The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1: (1980-2010), co-authored with James Dougherty, showcases how visual communication has transformed community planning and placemaking. Featuring hundreds of works by more than 100 practitioners, the book includes plans, renderings, streetscapes, precedent studies, and photographs spanning the movement’s history to contemporary hand-drawn and digital techniques. In the United States, our roads are literally killing us, with a death toll of nearly 4 million lives lost since we began counting them in 1899.…

A Cat Almost Stole Mom’s Car/Un Gato Casi Roba El Auto De Mamá, illustrated by Kseniia Kudriavtseva, tells the heartwarming journey of Victoria, her dog Hamlet, and a mischievous cat named Oliver. On an ordinary Saturday afternoon in March, Victoria and Hamlet discover the hood of Mom’s car wide open. It turns out a fluffy-tailed cat had plans of his own. Grades K-3.   SPONSORED BY…

Capturing their own stories, participants will design art journals, exploring self-expression and narrative through mixed media. This activity emphasizes storytelling, encouraging everyone to record personal thoughts, sketches, or memories.   PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH  …

In Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America, Meenakshi Ahamed shares fascinating portraits of the Indian Americans at the forefront of the wave of Indian success stories. Based on a series of interviews and featuring portraits of well-known figures and fresh, surprising stories, Indian Genius reveals the private strengths behind these individual’s public achievements. Joining Ahamed in conversation are author-panelists George Packer and Todd S. Purdum.   Buy Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America – Ahamed Buy The Emergency: A Novel – Packer Buy Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television – Purdum…

Unlock your creativity and connect with nature! This workshop invites you and your family to use your green thumb with a unique twist – instead of planting seeds, design one! In this workshop, you’ll discover the beauty and variety of seeds through art and hands-on discoveries. This event is a CREATE! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a FREE ticket to attend due to limited seating. Tickets may be picked up at the Info Booth in Children’s Alley; a standby line will be available for each workshop in the event a ticketed attendee does not show up.…

En Esto también es una casa, Cezanne Cardona narra un vínculo tenso entre madre e hijo, y explora la ternura, el dolor y la violencia de habitar el Caribe. Melba Escobar presenta Las huérfanas, una inmersión en la memoria de una madre y la indagación en los lazos familiares y la construcción de la identidad femenina. En Madre de corazón atómico, Agustín Fernández Mallo reflexiona sobre la condición humana a partir de una trama familiar,…

In Javier Fuentes’ Countries of Origin: A Novel, pastry chef Demetrio returns to Spain as an undocumented immigrant, leaving behind his beloved uncle in New York. On the flight, he meets the sensitive, aristocratic Jacobo, sparking a subtle electricity. Amid Madrid’s bars and coastal beaches, they form an intense relationship, navigating identity, class, and intimacy, until a family tragedy forces them to confront their true feelings. In Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. Told in reverse order, The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother is a brave, compassionate celebration of the life and death of Jill Bialosky’s mother, Iris, and a window into the inextricable bond between mother and daughter. Starting with her burial and cognitive decline, Bialosky chronicles Iris’ often traumatic life, centering her mother as a resilient, multidimensional and fascinating woman. Molly Jong-Fast,…

Welcome to the infinite world of origami! In Japanese, “ori” means to fold and “gami” means paper. Using origami, music, and audience participation, our guest artist will provide a magical introduction to Japanese culture and the art of simplicity. In Origami Tales, mythological character masks and puppets, amazing flowers, and a dragon – all made from origami – set the stage, while Yamamoto shares heartfelt stories from ancient Japan.…

Unlock your creativity and connect with nature! This workshop invites you and your family to use your green thumb with a unique twist – instead of planting seeds, design one! In this workshop, you’ll discover the beauty and variety of seeds through art and hands-on discoveries.   This event is a CREATE! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a FREE ticket to attend due to limited seating. Tickets may be picked up at the Info Booth in Children’s Alley;…

The Royal We: A Memoir documents Roddy Bottum’s coming of age – and out of the closet. Bottum chronicles his travels from growing up gay without role models in Los Angeles to 1980s San Francisco, where he formed the Grammy-nominated band Faith No More. He went on to tour the world, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, and ultimately became a queer icon. Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries,…

Jane Hamilton’s The Phoebe Variations: A Novel is a coming-of-age story about girls, mothers, and finding one’s way in the world. On the verge of graduation, Phoebe meets her birth family for the first time – and runs away. With her best friend Luna in tow, she makes an escape to their friend Patrick’s chaotic household, and she begins navigating the tumultuous road out of girlhood. Lily King’s Heart the Lover: A Novel is an intimate story of desire,…

In Rosie Danan’s Fan Service, small-town outcast Alex only fits in on the fan forum she built for her cult werewolf detective show. When its washed-up star Devin wakes up with claws, fangs, and no memory of the previous night, he turns to Alex – who secretly despises him – for help. The reluctant allies team up and lower their guards as they try to wrangle his inner beast. Asher Bennett and Theo Fernandez, the leads in Chip Pons’ Winging It with You,…

Literally Everyone Is Invited: An Ode to South Florida celebrates the 10th anniversary of the ZipOde – a playful, placed-based poetic form created in 2015 by O, Miami in partnership with WLRN. Edited by Gesi Schilling and Sarah Trudgeon and published by O, Miami, this vibrant collection features poems and photographs by 500 South Floridians. Literally Everyone Is Invited is part art book and part poetic love letter to South Florida, told by the people who live it. Moderated by Tom Hudson,…

Tony & The Kings light up Miami with a sound as vibrant as the city itself. Blending their Caribbean roots with a fiery mix of jazz, funk, and soul, this powerhouse band delivers a dance-floor-shaking sound that fuses boogaloo, Latin soul, son, and Afro funk. Fronted by the electrifying Nuyorican Antonio Rivera (vocals, guitar, percussion) the band features a lineup of South Florida heavy hitters that include Danny Naval (congas, percussion), Eddie Garcia Jr. (drums), Matt Pyatt (bass), Robert Smiley (sax),…

Chloe Caldwell’s Trying: A Memoir is one woman’s story told through selective journaling: her struggle with infertility, the dissolution of her marriage – and an eventual reawakening to her long-buried desires and queer identity. Throughout, Caldwell kept writing, making sense of her new reality in real time. She captures the continuous process of becoming and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process. As a child, Atash Yaghmaian endured terrors at home and outside, as Iran was on fire.…

GRADES 9-12 In Kalynn Bayron’s Frankenstein-tinged horror romance, Make Me A Monster, a newly certified mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home discovers that the family business is a bit more complicated than it seems. Don’t miss Fortress of Ambrose, the explosive finale of the New York Times bestselling House of Marionne series by J. Elle, where deadly rivalries and deadlier love tip the scales between freedom and destruction. The Last Vampire by Romina Garber begins in a boarding school where a girl expects to find her own Mr.…

Join us for a special panel highlighting the literary dialogue between Haiti and Jamaica. Edwidge Danticat’s Watch Out for Falling Iguanas begins with young Leila setting off for school on a rare chilly day in Miami. As her day is filled with curious encounters – roaming peacocks, chickens crossing the road – Leila can’t stop thinking about her grandmother’s warning to watch out for falling iguanas, and begins an unexpected adventure to discover why these tropical creatures fall from trees during cold fronts.…

The Books for Free crew is taking over the tent, reading and chilling throughout the day. So grab a beanbag and settle in for a storytime session with your new B4F BFFs! Grades K-3.   SPONSORED BY…

In 2021, French writer Lola Lafon was granted permission to stay overnight – alone for 10 hours – in the Annex in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. In When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing, she reflects on what we tell ourselves about tragedy, grappling with loss, and why, facing danger and confinement, women write. Moderating is Michael Glickman, CEO and founder of jMUSE, Jewish Museums Project,…