Conecta: Miami Arts is delighted to be collaborating with the Miami Book Fair in the programming of Children’s Alley! Reading, writing, storytelling, art, and music — they all lead to discovery and a life-long love of books. Once again, The Miami Book Fair will bring more than 9,000 schoolchildren on school buses to the Fair for Generation Genius Days so they can meet their favorite authors and receive FREE books! Catch live presentations by some of the hottest authors for kids and YA, with readings by Lois Lowry, Jon Scieszka, Victoria Aveyard, Gene Yang, Ridley Pearson, Melissa de la Cruz, Leigh Bardugo and many more! The children’s stage will host storytelling and a myriad of performances by Grammy-Award winning The Okee Dokee Brothers, breakdancing with the Flipside Kings and musical performances by Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Guitars over Guns, Live! Modern School of Music, and more!
Friday, November 17th
Generation Genius Day – Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, November 18th & Sunday, November 19th
Children’s Alley – Adults – $8 / Ages 13-18 & over 62: $5 / 12 and under: FREE
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CHILDREN’S ALLEY ACTIVITIES
ABOUT THE MIAMI BOOK FAIR
The Miami Book Fair will open Sunday November 12 with the popular Evenings With… series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world. On Friday, the Street Fair gets under way. The highlight of the Street Fair is the Festival of Authors, with more than 500 authors reading and discussing their work, including a robust IberoAmerican & ReadCarribean Authors Program. Thousands of South Florida schoolchildren will help kick off the Street Fair, making the trip downtown Friday to hear authors and participate in Children’s Alley activities, including musical acts, arts-and-crafts, storytelling and readings by children’s book authors. Comics and graphic novels are once again featured, and a new section just for kids and teens, as well as presentations over the weekend by renowned graphic novelists and illustrators.During Street Fair weekend, November 17-19, more than 250 publishers and booksellers exhibit and sell books, with special features like the antiquarians, who showcase signed first editions, original manuscripts and other collectibles.
The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade College and community partners, took place in 1984. Since then, it has been recognized as the nation’s finest literary festival.
