Upcoming Events

Join us for a discussion of this year’s title, SANDRA CISNEROS’ novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, a novella told in vignettes capturing a year in the life of a 12-year-old girl in a small Chicago community marked by poverty and limitation, but alive with beauty and resilience. A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.…

In English | En Español | An kreyòl ayisyen Inspirado en La casa en Mango Street de Sandra Cisneros La Feria del Libro de Miami te invita a descubrir las palabras, imágenes y detalles que te rodean en tu vecindario y a reflexionar sobre los espacios que nos forman. ¿Qué recuerdos viven en tu cuadra? ¿Qué vistas, sonidos e historias hacen que tu barrio se sienta como hogar? Tal vez sea el timbre de un carrito de helados, el aroma de una ropa vieja que sale de una ventana de cocina,…

In English | En Español | An kreyòl ayisyen Inspired by The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Miami Book Fair invites you to notice the words, images, and details all around your neighborhood and reflect on the spaces that shape us. What memories live on your block? Which sights, sounds, and stories make your neighborhood feel like home? Perhaps it’s the squeak of an ice cream cart’s bell, the scent of ropa vieja drifting from a kitchen window,…

Sandra Cisneros’ iconic novella The House on Mango Street captures a year in the life of a 12-year-old girl in the small Chicago community that has shaped her. Get to know your own community and explore how our physical environments impact the identity and architecture of our cities and ourselves. Art Deco Walking Tour: Transport to the 1920s and ’30s  for a fun and engaging historical and architectural walking tour of South Beach! You’ll begin with the fascinating history of early pioneers,…

Saturdays, September 6-October 18, 2025 3 p.m.-4 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 open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

In celebration of this year’s Big Read Miami, we’re collaborating with Miami-Dade Transit – the largest transit system in the Sunshine State! – to inspire communities through sharing quotes from Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street in stations and across buses and metromovers. Plus, free copies of the book will be given away October 9 at Government Center.  Keep your eyes open to spot Cisneros’ words as you move through the city for a daily dose of literary – and life – inspiration!…

Denis Fortún presenta su nueva obra Alma vieja, en conversación con Yovana Martínez Milián, escritora y editora. Alma vieja (CAAW Ediciones, 2025) es un manuscrito de sonetos y romances, del reconocido escritor y poeta Denis Fortún Bouzo. El libro es el segundo de una colección de versos rimados del autor, iniciada con el manuscrito de décimas Coordenadas ilícitas (CAAW Ediciones, 2023). Denis Fortún Bouzo (La Habana, Cuba, 1963). Poeta, narrador y bloguero. Ha publicado los poemarios Zona desconocida (Editorial Itinerante Paradiso 2007),…

Saturday, October 11, 2025 , 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. What is an image, and what can text entail? As an exploratory and interactive group, we will pay close attention to the nuances of these two words before excavating how they have been employed and evolved on the page over time. We will expand our original notions of these two crucial media, and how they can engage with each other. What happens at the intersection of image and text in creative work?…

Saturdays, September 6-October 18, 2025 3 p.m.-4 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 open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

Sunday, October 12, 2025 / 12-2 p.m. Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach) Free, RSVP required. In this workshop we will learn how to write about family, tradition, leaving and finding home. All of us have heard stories about where our ancestors lived and how they and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have found a sense of belonging in Florida and elsewhere. Drawing on those stories, we will discuss how to write about home with heart. And we will explore how to mix true stories with fictional stories to create a story filled with wonder.…

October 14, 2025 / 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM / via Zoom In English and Haitian Creole. 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. Theme: Writing History in the Present Tense Step into the time machine of your imagination. History speaks—and in this workshop, it sings.…

MBF will celebrate America as the land of freedom and opportunity with author Marie Arana. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing yet personal overview of the Latino population of the United States from 1492 through today. As the book shows, Latinos are not a monolith, but share a main commonality – their overwhelming and historically factual desire to be Americans and champion the values set out in the Declaration of Independence. Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru. She is the author of the memoir American Chica,…

Saturdays, September 6-October 18, 2025 3 p.m.-4 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 open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

Led by professional songwriter INEZ BARLATIER, you’ll draw on themes found in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and discuss how they lend themselves to lyrics, melody, and chord progression, then craft an original song which you’ll perform together as a group at the end of class. No prior songwriting experience necessary! Inez Barlatier is an Ayisyen-American singer, songwriter, musician & actor with over two decades of performance history. Her music is inspired by her Ayisyen heritage and is featured in award-winning films;…

This event is sold out. If you would like to be placed on a waitlist, contact Miriam Bussel Alonso at mbussela@mdc.edu. Join us for an immersive, multisensory exploration of the historic Jewish presence in South Beach, tracing the rise, evolution, and enduring legacy of the Jewish community in Miami Beach over the past 100 years. Examined through the lens of how neighborhoods inform identity – inspired by Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street – this walking tour delves into how Miami’s Jewish communities helped shape the cultural and architectural fabric of South Beach and invites participants to experience the neighborhood as a living archive,…

This event is FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Broadway meets Miami’s arts scene in a lively evening with three powerhouse members of Funding Arts Network (FAN), the nonprofit fueling exceptional visual and performing arts across Miami-Dade. Susan Rose — Tony Award-winning producer (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hurlyburly) & co-author of the beloved José & Feliz bilingual children’s series. Lisa F.…

Tour: Saturday, November 1 @ 3 p.m. Panel: Saturday, November 1 @ 5 p.m. As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary and Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower marks its centennial, Miami Book Fair – in partnership with the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) and the Genealogical Society of Greater Miami – invites you to a special panel exploring the powerful intersections of personal history and national identity. Arrive early to explore the historic building and discover how American history is reflected in its physical architecture and presentation of artifacts,…

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, to Monday, March 16, 2026  Textile artist DIANA EUSEBIO’s Field of Dreams at the Museum of Contemporary Art – her first solo exhibition – explores the significance of cultural preservation, ancestral memory, and the enduring connection between people and place. Drawing from her Indigenous Peruvian-Quechua and Afro-Dominican roots, Eusebio bridges personal memory with ancestral traditions, using natural dyes and textiles to create works grounded in both the flora and fauna of Miami and the landscapes of her family’s homelands.…

Lihi Lapid’s latest novel follows the lives of two women in their first years of marriage and motherhood. One is a fictional character trying to live the happily-ever-after many imagine for themselves; the other is inspired by the author herself, relating the most intimate moments of her life. Both women start their marriages full of idyllic happiness, but as the stressors of everyday existence seep into their daily lives that spark of young love begins to dim. I Wanted to Be Wonderful is a tale of metamorphosis,…

Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history – and if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance. Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind,…

From New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Silva comes a dazzling new tale of murder, greed, and corruption. Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice, but when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl,…

Kenny Chesney went from outside the Knoxville, Tennessee, city limits playing sports and loving music to defining the sound of coming-of-age in the 21st century. Rewriting and refocusing what a song could be, he fused rock, reggae, bluegrass, and a whole lot of positive energy to become a stadium-sized superstar and the only country act in Billboard’s “Top 10 Touring Acts of the Last 25 Years” for the past 15 years. A songwriter, groundbreaker, visionary, and regular guy,…

Brain surgery is a relatively new and mysterious profession, but in Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery, Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, M.D., pulls back the surgical drapes on this lifesaving specialty. Warm, rigorous, and deeply insightful, the book brings readers into his world and shares what it’s like to hold the scalpel, wield the drill, extract a tumor, fix a bullet hole, and remove a blood clot – when every second can mean the difference between life and death.…

In a wonderfully candid and engaging memoir, American business icon Barry Diller reveals his successes, failures, and struggles with surprising intimacy. Writing in his singular voice, he delivers an astute business memoir, an unvarnished look at Hollywood, a primer on media, and a surprisingly frank coming-of-age story. His ascent was meteoric: launching ABC TV’s Movie of the Week at 27, becoming CEO of Paramount Pictures at 32, and launching Fox TV at 44. Diller’s media savvy arguably changed the course of American culture.…

In Art Work: On the Creative Life, critically acclaimed photographer and author Sally Mann offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, advice both practical and not, and life lessons. Written in a direct, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone, the book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times. Illustrated throughout with photographs, journal entries, and letters that bring immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise;…

Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze’s 12th book of poetry, Into the Hush, extends a language that ripples and stills, conjuring a cast of fruit trees and gunshots, butterflies and chemistry, animals and man. Drawing on a craft honed over decades of writing, these poems earn their profound simplicity, moving with imaginative power and emotional force. Sze harnesses a range of innovative forms to respond to the challenges of our nuclear age – endangered cultures and the exigencies of climate change – exploring what it means to write on a planet struggling against the Anthropocene,…

New York Times bestseller and global book world darling Mercedes Ron is making another big splash with the first iteration of her wildly popular Tell Me series, now translated into English. Kamila Hamilton is caught between the two Di Bianco brothers – her best friends and greatest downfall – after they burst back into her life. Thiago got her first kiss; Taylor always protected her. And the secrets they still carry threaten to bring down her fragile walls and expose what happened so many years ago.…