Join BLCK Family, a Miami based creative collective specializing in mobile performance-art shows centered around culinary, visual, performing and social arts. BLCK Bar: Part mixology, part mixer, this spirit-filled demonstration features master mixologist Clyde Thompson (The Social Club, Zest, Wynwood Diner). Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

Join BLCK Family, a Miami based creative collective specializing in mobile performance-art shows centered around culinary, visual, performing and social arts. Puppet Poetry: Miami-based poets Arsimmer McCoy-Early and Calvin Early present a box-puppet theatre performance of their poem “I Bite My Tongue.” Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

Join BLCK Family, a Miami based creative collective specializing in mobile performance-art shows centered around culinary, visual, performing and social arts. BLCK Freedom Sessions presents Shenzi, a Miami-based multi-genre quintet that combines jazz roots, hip-hop grooves, and soul with a Latin flair. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of The Porch by

Young Astrid Lindgren, future author of the beloved Pippi Longstocking series, is eager to break free from the confines of her religious upbringing, so she accepts an internship at a local newspaper and attracts the attention of its editor. Astrid becomes pregnant, and later secretly gives birth to a son whom she leaves in the care of a foster mother. ...

New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and Silver Sparrow, which was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.  A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, her honors include the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black ...