Coloring isn't just for kids. It's turning into a global phenomenon with adults. Why? It's a great relaxation technique, and anybody can do it. That's why artist and social entrepreneur Diego Orlandini is leading the charge for this new pastime with The Wynwood Coloring Book. The Wynwood Coloring Book is a stunning compilation of black and white pages inspired by ...

The Porch goes green and gets lush! Enjoy the beautiful living walls from Andromeda District and take some time out to admire the plants and snap a pic in front of the life-sized greenery displays.  Created to celebrate Miami's new generation of green living, Andromeda District promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through the benefits of nature ...

Have a favorite Miami memory? How about a least favorite? Step inside the story booth and tell it. In partnership with WLRN and HistoryMiami Museum, the Fair offers the mobile story booth, a portable recording studio dedicated to recording MiamiStories. Your story will be archived at HistoryMiami Museum and might be broadcast on WLRN. The Miami Stories project encourages anyone ...

Wind down after work on The Porch every day during Miami Book Fair and play some giant outdoor games for happy hour fun during the week and throughout the street fair weekend! Come make new friends and challenge them to giant Jenga, Connect Four, beanbag toss, Checkers and more! Bring your pals out and challenge them to a game while ...

You’ve heard of silent discos and silent yoga, now tune your ears to the literary stylings of silent poetry disco. Relax in our Silent Poetry lounge with amazing poetry curated by the Academy of American Poets. Grab a set of headphones, take s eat and browse between three channels of simultaneously spinning poetry to find your favorite genre. Blue Channel ...

Large-scale Photographs By Andrew Kaufman aka AK Foto Step into the Porch and get transported to the streets of Wynwood with large-scale images from Andrew Kaufman’s portfolio. Photography is the most permanent and longest lasting proof of street art. There is no way to preserve street art except to photograph it before it fades, is toyed with, buffed or written ...

Want to get healthy and stay that way? You've come to the right place! Learn how to get rid of germs, especially on your teeth! You'll want to show those pearly whites after dental hygienists and their puppets teach you the right way to brush. Learn about good nutrition so you can grow healthy and strong!

Bring your imaginary passports as we take a literary journey to Mexico, Trinidad and GHana. Travel with us to Russia, Pakistan, Japan and beyond! Explore foreign cultures through storytime, folk tales, myths, and plays! Put what you’ve learned to work and create Calavera masks, construct dioramas of the Italian city of Calabria, fashion Moroccan lanterns, and more! Featured Books For ...

Sing-a-long, move and groove! Try out instruments from around the world in the musical corner. Learn about different musical instruments and families. Swing and sway to the rhythms of Latin, jazz, and other styles of music. Rock-out and bang your very own percussion instrument. Featured books: Zin Zin Violin!, Pete the Cat, Olivia Forms a Band, One Love and Drum ...

Create a work of art inspired by…books! ALL kinds of books! Enter a magical land where everyone is an author, illustrator, and bookmaker — including you. Follow the dot and create a work of art using dots of all shapes and sizes. Work with yarn to create a sweater for you or your cat and even a pair of socks! ...

High school students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools act as journalists, posing questions to the Finalists for the 2016 National Book Award in Young People's Literature. Since 1998, the Teen Press Conference has taken place at various literary landmarks in New York, including the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Scholastic Auditorium, Brooklyn Borough ...

Free & Open to the Community! This week on The Florida Roundup… WLRN is live from the Miami Book Fair! Joining our host Tom Hudson on stage: Pulitzer Prize winning author and columnist Dave Barry, environmental journalist and chronicler of all things weird in Florida Craig Pittman, Cuban-American writer Maria Carla Chicuen and Miami-native branding expert Bruce Turkel. Come by, ...

It’s FriYay! Head over to the Porch and close out the workweek with delicious food, craft beers, and games, while exercising your coloring skills on a Wynwood Coloring Book Community Coloring wall!

Start your Friday happy hour with WVUM's DJ Luan as he mixes the best in Latin and dance music, including 80s, disco, and  house. Catch him spinning live on WVUM Friday nights for his show Club Babylon from 10:30-11:30 p.m.!

Tickets $15 Miami Book Fair, in partnership with the National Book Foundation, and with the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, welcomes the Finalists and Winners of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards. Previous winners of the Award—including William Carlos Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Faulkner—comprise a who’s who of American literature. ...

No te pases con ficha! Grab a partner, pick a team name and don your best guayabera as you challenge friends and strangers to a bracket-style domino tournament.

Bring your DIY prowess to The Porch with Wynwood Letterpress and Miami's only DIY blogger, Damask Love. They'll they set up a pop-up work station to craft your very own composition notebook - with a modern, Miami twist! Space is limited to 25 so RSVP's are required. RSVP to secure your space.        

SPEAK! Fridays has become known as Miami’s most diverse open mic experience. Come out to The Porch as Speak! invades the Book Fair with vibrant performances combining poetry, art, music and creative expression. "No Egos...Just Expression" that's the motto of Speak!

"One part circus, two parts burlesque, a pinch of class and a dash of trash.” Incorporating corporeal mime, street theater and acrobatics Circ X’s unique brand of interactive antics and theatrical circus artistry features performances that are provocative and outrageously funny. Be on the look out for Circ X’s beautifully bizarre characters strolling through the crowd before the show.

Tickets $15 Lip Service presents the smartest, hottest, and most honest storytelling event in South Florida. Lip Service combines theater and literature into an evening of true and personal stories. Lip Service stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, poignant, embarrassing, inspiring, and all true! You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll cringe. After the show, join the storytellers and fellow listeners on The Porch ...