Ongoing Big Read Events In Creole and English
March 1 - March 31
Miami Writers/Miami Schools: BIG READ 2016
March – May
Local Haitian authors Rebecca Demas, M.J. Fievre, and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel lead creative writing workshops with high school students. Students explore their cultural roots and immigrant stories through writing, and produce a chapbook of their stories.
Ayiti Images launches its Spring 2016 programming during The Big Read. Films were curated in partnership with film-maker Rachelle Salnave, founder of Ayiti Images.
Join The Big Read Miami!
AYITI IMAGES: Haiti in Film
March 12, 1 p.m. | O Cinema, 90 NW 29th St, Miami
Stones in the Sun, film screening and conversation with director, Patricia Benoit
March 1 - March 31
BOOK DISCUSSIONS Book discussions will take place at MiamiDade public libraries, independent bookstore Books & Books, and MDC campuses. For a complete listing: miamibookfair.com.
March 19, 1:30 p.m. | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables
La Belle Vie, film screening and conversation with director, Rachelle Salnave
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture.
/miamibookfair
#NEABigRead
Special thanks to our partners:
March 1 - March 31, 2016 Miami Book Fair celebrates reading with The Big Read, featuring a month of events and activities inspired by Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying, including a photography exhibit by photojournalist Carl Juste, film screenings and Q&A’s with directors, a bilingual theatre performance, author presentations, a Big Night in Little Haiti celebration, happy hour writing events, an open mic and more! With these Big Read programs, we hope to bring the many stories of Haiti and Haitian-Americans, and various perspectives on immigration, to the people of Miami. We want to build bridges between communities, contributing to mutual understanding, respect and appreciation.
Visit miamibookfair.com for more information.
Want to join The Big Read?
Miami Book Fair will give away copies of Brother, I’m Dying throughout the month. Come to our Big Read events, like us on Facebook or Tweet us, and sign up for our newsletter.
Event Highlights Thursday, March 3 8 p.m. | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
Haiti’s Earthquake & It’s Aftermath: A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN KATZ Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti on January 12, 2010, when the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the island nation. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental–yet misbegotten– rescue effort that followed. WLRN’s Nadege Green will be in conversation with Katz.
In Spanish/en español Jueves 10 de marzo 7 p.m. | Koubek Center del Miami Dade College, 2705 SW 3ra Calle
PAPELES Y BALSEROS Prometeo Theatre presents the short, bilingual play, Papeles, and Ernesto Ochoa presents his novel Balseros Papeles by Hector Pino and Brad Beckman Two travelers are detained by customs at an international airport in this satirical take on immigration, profiling and identity. Papeles was a City Theatre National Award recipient for Short Playwriting in 2013. 15 minutes. Balseros by Ernesto Ochoa Rafters is the first novel written to document and examine the lives of Cubans who’ve emigrated to the U.S. on rafts.
Friday, March 11
Thursday, March 24
7 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
6:30 p.m. | Books & Books @ the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
Miami: One City, Two Homes: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social
Featuring the photography of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carl Juste, Miami documentary photographer Woosler Imhotep Delisfort, long-time Miami Herald photojournalist C.W. Griffin, Miami street photographer Stephanie Farokhnia and the work of students from the MiAmi project. More info at miamibookfair.com. Photos of Little Haiti, Little Havana, Haiti and Cuba curated by Carl Juste, founder, Iris Photo Collective. (Exhibit open March 11 - April 30)
In Creole and English Friday, March 18 6-10 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
Big Read @ Big Night: A FEAST OF WOMEN’S VOICES & BIG NIGHT IN LITTLE HAITI Enjoy a night of literature, music, art, food, culture and fun, as the Miami Book Fair brings the Big Read to Big Night in Little Haiti. Come out before the music starts and enjoy up-close-and-personal discussions with eight women writers of Haitian descent who will read from, and discuss, their most recent works of fiction and non-fiction, and children’s books!. Featured authors: Rebecca N. Carmant, M.J. Fievre, Margaret Papillon, Mahalia Solages, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Fabienne Josephat and Cynthia Verna. Presented in partnership with the 2016 Caribbean Reading Series, Rhythm Foundation, and Little Haiti Cultural Center.
Participants are led in a short, themed writing prompt. Those who want to, will read their work aloud. We’ll take a break to drink, eat and socialize, (your first drink is always on the house!) then we start the whole process over again. Theme: Out of place Instructor: Vanessa Garcia | Free. RSVP required: thecenteratmdc.org
brother in Haiti and the other in America. Told through Danticat’s singular voice, these events set the stage for a powerful tale of loss and remembrance. Attorney Cheryl Little worked closely with Danticat on her uncle’s immigration case. Delicious Hatian food by Leela’s Restaurant prior to start of program.
WE RECOMMEND SPECIAL PARTNER EVENT Through March 12
March 26 7 p.m. | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
STORYPALOOZA: The Big Read Edition Theme: Family Stories Editors: M.J. Fievre, Nick Garnett, Andrea Askowitz Come out for a storytelling open mic! This is how it works: you have 4 minutes to tell your story in front of a panel of editors from Lip Service, Miami’s own, home-grown, live (true) storytelling event. Get feedback from these pros before the submission period for May’s Lip Service show. | Free. RSVP required: thecenteratmdc.org
March 31 6:30 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
AUTHOR EDWIDGE DANTICAT in Conversation with Americans for Immigrant Justice Executive Director Cheryl Little, Esq. Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying tells the true story of the author’s uncle and father as they work to build a future for themselves and their families—one
Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
The City of Miami, Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Collaboration with Lobey Art & Travel and Future Roots Collective Present
SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM: The Power of Revolution Little Haiti Cultural Complex Gallery features the work of contemporary Haitian painter Florestal Evens. This exhibition presents Evens paintings as potent visual explorations of the significance and history of Vèvè symbols. The compelling images provide insight into the African origins of Vèvè, their role as catalytic elements of the Haitian Revolution, and subsequent establishment of Haiti as the first free Black state in the New World founded by self-liberated African slaves. Curated by Marie Vickles, Curatorin-Residence, LHCC Organized by Romuald Blanchard, Lobey Art & Travel
Want to join The Big Read?
Miami Book Fair will give away copies of Brother, I’m Dying throughout the month. Come to our Big Read events, like us on Facebook or Tweet us, and sign up for our newsletter.
Event Highlights Thursday, March 3 8 p.m. | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
Haiti’s Earthquake & It’s Aftermath: A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN KATZ Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti on January 12, 2010, when the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the island nation. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental–yet misbegotten– rescue effort that followed. WLRN’s Nadege Green will be in conversation with Katz.
In Spanish/en español Jueves 10 de marzo 7 p.m. | Koubek Center del Miami Dade College, 2705 SW 3ra Calle
PAPELES Y BALSEROS Prometeo Theatre presents the short, bilingual play, Papeles, and Ernesto Ochoa presents his novel Balseros Papeles by Hector Pino and Brad Beckman Two travelers are detained by customs at an international airport in this satirical take on immigration, profiling and identity. Papeles was a City Theatre National Award recipient for Short Playwriting in 2013. 15 minutes. Balseros by Ernesto Ochoa Rafters is the first novel written to document and examine the lives of Cubans who’ve emigrated to the U.S. on rafts.
Friday, March 11
Thursday, March 24
7 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
6:30 p.m. | Books & Books @ the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
Miami: One City, Two Homes: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social
Featuring the photography of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carl Juste, Miami documentary photographer Woosler Imhotep Delisfort, long-time Miami Herald photojournalist C.W. Griffin, Miami street photographer Stephanie Farokhnia and the work of students from the MiAmi project. More info at miamibookfair.com. Photos of Little Haiti, Little Havana, Haiti and Cuba curated by Carl Juste, founder, Iris Photo Collective. (Exhibit open March 11 - April 30)
In Creole and English Friday, March 18 6-10 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
Big Read @ Big Night: A FEAST OF WOMEN’S VOICES & BIG NIGHT IN LITTLE HAITI Enjoy a night of literature, music, art, food, culture and fun, as the Miami Book Fair brings the Big Read to Big Night in Little Haiti. Come out before the music starts and enjoy up-close-and-personal discussions with eight women writers of Haitian descent who will read from, and discuss, their most recent works of fiction and non-fiction, and children’s books!. Featured authors: Rebecca N. Carmant, M.J. Fievre, Margaret Papillon, Mahalia Solages, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Fabienne Josephat and Cynthia Verna. Presented in partnership with the 2016 Caribbean Reading Series, Rhythm Foundation, and Little Haiti Cultural Center.
Participants are led in a short, themed writing prompt. Those who want to, will read their work aloud. We’ll take a break to drink, eat and socialize, (your first drink is always on the house!) then we start the whole process over again. Theme: Out of place Instructor: Vanessa Garcia | Free. RSVP required: thecenteratmdc.org
brother in Haiti and the other in America. Told through Danticat’s singular voice, these events set the stage for a powerful tale of loss and remembrance. Attorney Cheryl Little worked closely with Danticat on her uncle’s immigration case. Delicious Hatian food by Leela’s Restaurant prior to start of program.
WE RECOMMEND SPECIAL PARTNER EVENT Through March 12
March 26 7 p.m. | Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
STORYPALOOZA: The Big Read Edition Theme: Family Stories Editors: M.J. Fievre, Nick Garnett, Andrea Askowitz Come out for a storytelling open mic! This is how it works: you have 4 minutes to tell your story in front of a panel of editors from Lip Service, Miami’s own, home-grown, live (true) storytelling event. Get feedback from these pros before the submission period for May’s Lip Service show. | Free. RSVP required: thecenteratmdc.org
March 31 6:30 p.m. | Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
AUTHOR EDWIDGE DANTICAT in Conversation with Americans for Immigrant Justice Executive Director Cheryl Little, Esq. Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying tells the true story of the author’s uncle and father as they work to build a future for themselves and their families—one
Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami
The City of Miami, Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Collaboration with Lobey Art & Travel and Future Roots Collective Present
SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM: The Power of Revolution Little Haiti Cultural Complex Gallery features the work of contemporary Haitian painter Florestal Evens. This exhibition presents Evens paintings as potent visual explorations of the significance and history of Vèvè symbols. The compelling images provide insight into the African origins of Vèvè, their role as catalytic elements of the Haitian Revolution, and subsequent establishment of Haiti as the first free Black state in the New World founded by self-liberated African slaves. Curated by Marie Vickles, Curatorin-Residence, LHCC Organized by Romuald Blanchard, Lobey Art & Travel
Ongoing Big Read Events In Creole and English
March 1 - March 31
Miami Writers/Miami Schools: BIG READ 2016
March – May
Local Haitian authors Rebecca Demas, M.J. Fievre, and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel lead creative writing workshops with high school students. Students explore their cultural roots and immigrant stories through writing, and produce a chapbook of their stories.
Ayiti Images launches its Spring 2016 programming during The Big Read. Films were curated in partnership with film-maker Rachelle Salnave, founder of Ayiti Images.
Join The Big Read Miami!
AYITI IMAGES: Haiti in Film
March 12, 1 p.m. | O Cinema, 90 NW 29th St, Miami
Stones in the Sun, film screening and conversation with director, Patricia Benoit
March 1 - March 31
BOOK DISCUSSIONS Book discussions will take place at MiamiDade public libraries, independent bookstore Books & Books, and MDC campuses. For a complete listing: miamibookfair.com.
March 19, 1:30 p.m. | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables
La Belle Vie, film screening and conversation with director, Rachelle Salnave
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture.
/miamibookfair
#NEABigRead
Special thanks to our partners:
March 1 - March 31, 2016 Miami Book Fair celebrates reading with The Big Read, featuring a month of events and activities inspired by Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying, including a photography exhibit by photojournalist Carl Juste, film screenings and Q&A’s with directors, a bilingual theatre performance, author presentations, a Big Night in Little Haiti celebration, happy hour writing events, an open mic and more! With these Big Read programs, we hope to bring the many stories of Haiti and Haitian-Americans, and various perspectives on immigration, to the people of Miami. We want to build bridges between communities, contributing to mutual understanding, respect and appreciation.
Visit miamibookfair.com for more information.