The annual Little Haiti Book Festival, presented by the Miami Book Fair, will be May 1, 2022, at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, with additional presentations online May 8 and May 15. Admission is free.

The Little Haiti Book Festival will feature authors from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, literary panels and craft talks, workshops for writers, hands-on activities for children, a dance workshop and musical petting zoo, poetry, dance and music performances, and more.

The day-long event schedule is as follows:

IN THE COURTYARD

DJ NICKYMIX with Haitian konpa, roots and rara music (all day)
BOOK FAIR with local authors and publishers featuring books in Haitian-Creole, English, and French (all day)
BOOKS FOR FREE, courtesy of Miami Book Fair and The Children’s Trust’s Books for Free program (all day)
DANCE PERFORMANCE with Tradisyon Lakou Lakay (12:00pm) and NSL Dance Ensemble (2:00pm)
STORYTELLING with Liliane Nérette-Louis, a Haitian folk artist specializing in storytelling, cooking, and traditional medicine (1:00pm)
RARA LAKAY. Enjoy a live percussion-based performance by Rara Lakay as you embrace Haitian literary life and culture. (3:30 p.m.)

IN THE AUDITORIUM

HAITIAN FILM. The Madan Sara,a documentary that tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. (11 a.m.)
VODOU AT THE CROSSROADS OF KNOWLEDGE. A presentation by Jerry Gilles, author of Remembrance: Roots, Ritual, and Reverence in Vodou, in conversation with vodou priestess, singer, activist Carole Demesmin (1:30 pm)

CHILDREN’S ALLEY

CREATE/PARTICIPATE. There will be ART! Visit the KIDS ART-MAKING STUDIO all day for hands-on arts and craft activities with MOAD and renowned Haitian artist Asser Saint-Val (Art-Making Studio, all day).
BOOKS FOR FREE! Courtesy of the Books for Free program, internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat will read from My Mommy Medicine (12 p.m.); award-winning writer J. Fievre will read from Haiti A to Z and The Ocean Lives There (12 p.m.); and Executive Director at Family Action Network Movement Marleine Bastien will read from Angelina in the Land of the Free (2 p.m.)
Join professional storytellers Lucrece Louisdhon-Louinis;and Liliane Nérette Louis for their traditional stories from Haiti.
DANCE AND DRUMMING WORKSHOP&nbsp;with Yanui, founder and choreographer of Tradisyon Lakou Lakay (1:30 pm)
MEDITATION AND YOGA FOR KIDS with Alexandra Jeanty-Leclerc, Mindful Art educator and author of Mindful Pokie. (Dance Studio, 11 a.m.)