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5:00 pm

Transoceanic Video Exchange

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 5:00 pm EST

The Miami-based Caribbean creative collective Third Horizon curates a night of Caribbean short films and music. Transoceanic Video Exchange: A selection of video art by artists practicing in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands and their diasporas. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

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6:00 pm

Short films presented by Third Horizon

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 6:00 pm EST

The Miami-based Caribbean creative collective Third Horizon curates a night of Caribbean short films and music. Short films presented by Miami-based Caribbean artist collective, Third Horizon! Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

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Free

Special Event With Anna Quindlen

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 6:00 pm EST

Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of nine novels, including Object Lessons, One True Thing and Black and Blue. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has ...

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7:00 pm

Grandes figuras del béisbol cubano

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 7:00 pm EST

Omar Claro es escritor y cronista deportivo. Su libro Felo Ramírez, el oráculo de la narración (Dreams Innovators) cierra la trilogía que retrata el ambiente deportivo cubano y recorre la vida del gran periodista que es toda una leyenda de la radio. Gilberto Dihígo es escritor, periodista, historiador y productor de radio y televisión. Es director ejecutivo de la página ...

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7:30 pm

Rum & Coke Dance Party

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 7:30 pm EST

The Miami-based Caribbean creative collective Third Horizon curates a night of Caribbean short films and music. Rum & Coke Dance Party featuring DJ Le Spam and DJ Kumi who’ll spin vintage vinyl into a night of sweaty, sonic nostalgia. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

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8:00 pm
Free

An Evening With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 8:00 pm EST

One of today’s leading African writers and scholars, Kenyan-born Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir (The New Press) is the unforgettable chronicle of the year this brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, ...

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Presentación de la novela Contracastro, de Rafael Alcides

Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 8:00 pm EST

La novela Contracastro (Eriginal Books) no fue publicada por Casa de las Américas ni por ninguna otra editorial cubana. Sintieron miedo por el título, dada la mirada crítica a la revolución que realiza, desde la ficción, su creador Rafael Alcides, y por lo incómoda que se fue volviendo la figura de este intelectual para las autoridades culturales de la isla. ...

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9:09 pm

El escritor boliviano Edmundo Paz-Soldan presenta su más reciente novela Los días de la peste

Monday, May 12 @ 9:09 pm EDT

El autor hablará sobre su obra en conversación con el narrador y académico Alfredo Palacio.La Casona es mucho más que una cárcel: es un microcosmos donde cada uno de los individuos que lo componen, desde el gobernador de la prisión hasta su mujer, pasando por los presos y los guardias, aceptan su suerte con resignación. La religión como salvación, el culto prohibido que todos profesan a una diosa vengativa que ...

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FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social (October 2018)

Monday, May 12 @ 9:09 pm EDT

Have a drink. Write a story. Have another drink. Write a better story. Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Swing by a First Draft event for a drink (the first one’s on the house) and a guided writing prompt. Share your writing. ...

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FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social (October 2018)

Monday, May 12 @ 9:09 pm EDT

Have a drink. Write a story. Have another drink. Write a better story. Instructor: Cecily Schuler Theme: Remixes and Mash-Ups: When Stories Tell Stories Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Swing by a First Draft event for a drink (the first one’s ...

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