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 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.)
Online programs
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2pm. The Sounds of Joy and Pain: A New Understanding of Traditional Haitian Music, Konpa, and Rap Kreyòl with M. Mushy Widmaier, Georgio Léon-Émile, and Ed Rainer Sainvil.
More free and cheap entertainment:
Monday, February 6, 2023
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 NE 59th Terrace
Miami, CA 33137
(305) 960-2969