Miami Book Fair celebrates the stories that history leaves behind with The Best We Could Do, an illustrated memoir by cartoonist and author Thi Bui
March 1 – April 30
In My Ear, Your Voice Still Flickering: A Big Read Miami 2022 Project
Look Back at the 2022 Big Read Miami: A Celebration of Vietnamese Culture
View the 2022 Miami Big Read Recap
This spring, Miami Book Fair encourages all South Floridians to read The Best We Could Do, the critically acclaimed illustrated memoir by Thi Bui, which traces her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and their effort to build new lives for themselves in America. Bui documents parental sacrifice, excavates family histories, and grapples with the inherited struggles of displacement and diaspora.
2022 Big Read Miami programs take place either in-person or online. Please check event details for more info.
Event Highlights
Join us for a virtual presentation celebrating the launch of In My Ear, Your Voice Still Flickering // Bên tai tôi, giọng người vẫn chờn vờn, a special-edition three-volume zine featuring contemporary Vietnamese literature and art. Vietnamese writers based across Vietnam and around the world contributed fiction and poetry in English or Vietnamese, along with translations to make the zine fully bilingual. …
“I began to record our family history…thinking that if I bridged the gap between the past and the present, I could fill the void between my parents and me.”
—Thi Bui in The Best We Could Do
Join us for a virtual talk and Q&A with this year’s Big Read featured author, Thi Bui as she discusses this award-winning graphic memoir. …
Join us for a discussion of this year’s title, The Best We Could Do, an illustrated memoir by Thi Bui. 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. Program made possible by Miami Book Fair. Space is limited. …
Saturdays, February 12 – April 9 / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Join us online for Speak Up, a FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series for teens (ages 13-19).
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. …
Storybook Picnic / Picnic de Libros is a bilingual, family day program featuring storytelling, theatre, music, arts and crafts, dance, and picnic baskets full of books, free to keep, with the goal of encouraging literacy while exposing kids to the richness and variety of the cultural traditions in our diverse community. Produced by the Koubek Center and Fundación Cuatrogatos, with the support of Miami Book Fair. …
Saturdays, February 12 – April 9 / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Join us online for Speak Up, a FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series for teens (ages 13-19).
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. …
Saturdays, February 12 – April 9 / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Join us online for Speak Up, a FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series for teens (ages 13-19).
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. …
Join visual artist Nereida García Ferraz and writer Mia Leonin in a bookmaking workshop that weaves together memoir and the visual arts to explore travel, migration, and community. Engaging in image transfer, drawing, and book design techniques, we will map out new connections between our personal histories and our collective experiences. Participants will write, draw, paint, paste, and collage. Creating in community, …
Saturdays, February 12 – April 9 / 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Join us online for Speak Up, a FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series for teens (ages 13-19).
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. …
A guided writing prompt with a twist.
Because writing is thirsty work.
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. Bring your own drink and log in for a First Draft event and a guided writing prompt. …
Through powerful narrative, archival imagery, and 20 Vietnamese recipes that mirror their story, Mango & Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream, is a unique contribution to culinary literature by life-long collaborators Tung Nguyen and Kathy Manning. Although they come from different worlds, together they created magic in their award-winning Miami Vietnamese restaurant Hy Vong. …
What is the NEA Big Read?
A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Managed by Arts Midwest, this initiative offers grants to support innovative community reading programs designed around a single book.
For more information about the NEA Big Read, visit www.arts.gov/partnerships/nea-big-read
For information about the NEA, visit www.arts.gov
For information about Arts Midwest, visit www.artsmidwest.org