Loading Events

← Back to Events

Lyric Theater

Past Events

November 2022

Saturday, November 12, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Lyric Theater
819 NW Second Ave, Miami, 33136 United States

“Original Roots: The Sound & Story of Jamaican Tradition”

Special pre-Fair event celebrating Jamaican Independence! Join Olive Senior, Jamaica’s poet laureate, the Tallawah Mento Band, and The Jamaican Folk Revue for storytelling and music, followed by a panel with Oliver Mair, consul general of Jamaica to the Southern U.S., and Jamaican dub poet Malachi Smith.   Media Partners  …

Thursday, November 17, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Lyric Theater
819 NW Second Ave, Miami, 33136 United States

“Becoming the Family Historian”

Nick Douglas, author of Finding Octave: The Untold Story of Two Creole Families and Slavery in Louisiana, will be joined by Patricia J. Braynon, genealogist and Black Archives board chair, and Marvin Ellis, MBF African diaspora genealogy/family history program chair.                   Media Partners…

March 2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023 @ 7:30 pm
Lyric Theater
819 NW Second Ave, Miami, 33136 United States

2023 Big Read Keynote: Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

The 2023 Big Read Miami keynote address features award-winning poet, educator, and community gardener Ross Gay on this year’s featured title, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. In his award-winning poetry collection, Gay demonstrates the practice of gratitude while never losing sight of the loss that animates it. Animated by what he has called the “discipline of gratitude,” the collection considers sorrow’s potential, grounded in the rhythms and abundance of the natural world: the compost that gives way to rich soil,…

Events List Navigation

+ Export Events