The Big Reads: Presenting Tim O’Brien
Tuesday, 04/09/2013, 07:30 pm –
Coral Gables Congregational Church
Coral Gables Congregational Church,
3010 DeSoto Boulevard, Florida Coral Gables
Webpage Link
The Big Read Keynote: An Evening with Tim O’Brien
Author Tim O’Brien gives The Big Read keynote address and speaks about his contemporary classic, The Things They Carried. Co-presented with Books & Books.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Saturday, 04/13/2013, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Sunny Isles Beach Branch Library
18070 Collins Ave.,
Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Friday, 04/05/2013, 04:00 pm – 05:00 pm
Pompano Beach Branch Library
1213 E. Atlantic Blvd.,
Pompano Beach, Florida 33060
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Thursday, 03/21/2013, 02:00 pm – 03:00 pm
Riverland Branch Library
2710 W. Davie Blvd.,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Saturday, 02/23/2013, 02:00 pm – 03:00 pm
Hollywood Branch Library
2600 Hollywood Boulevard,
Hollywood, Florida 33020
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Tuesday, 02/12/2013, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Arcola Lakes Branch Library
8240 NW 7 Ave.,
Miami, Florida 33150
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
Read Along, Sing a Song by Florida Grand Opera
Wednesday, 03/27/2013, 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm
Kendale Lakes Branch Library
15205 SW 88 Street,
Miami, Florida 33196
Webpage Link
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) continues to solidify its commitment to education and the community by partnering with the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Library Systems to offer a FREE literacy program running through the 2012-2013 season.
The “Read Along, Sing a Song†program is designed for elementary school aged children, walking them through a pre-selected story and incorporating elements from different artistic disciplines found within opera. As the children read, they may be instructed to pick up an instrument, follow a dance or sing to a melody during a high point of the story, making reading even more engaging and fun.
Catering to underserved communities, the program is offered at no cost. To maximize the learning experience, sessions are limited to 25 children each. Reservations can be made in advance by contacting FGO Education Manager, Cerise Sutton, at csutton@fgo.org or 305-854-1643 ext. 1100. For specific dates and other details, please visit www.FGO.org/education.
J.J. Colagrande Reads From Novel at Book Fair
Sunday, 11/18/2012, 04:30 pm – 05:30 pm
Miami Book Fair
Miami Book Fair,
300 NE 2nd ave, Florida 33132
Webpage Link
Professor-by-day, Miami writer, J.J. Colagrande is reading from his second novel, Decò, a satire about an absurd life in contemporary Miami. The novel follows the central and title character, Decò, a young, naïve, Miami writer armed with five graduate degrees, $400,000 in student debt, and an American sense of entitlement which is supposed to guarantee him fame and riches, not always achieved through hard work.
Books & Book visiting authors Ford, Pitts, Weinstein, Goolrick, Shriver
June 2012
Books & Books
265 Aragon
Coral Gables
www.booksandbooks.com
Free & Open to the Community
There are some outstanding authors visiting Books & Books in the Gables over the next few weeks. Books & Books has a packed schedule of readings this summer. Parking available at municipal garage across the street.
* June 7: Rochelle Weinstein, Miami born and current resident, author of What We Leave Behind, which asks the question, “What if we had the chance to go back and live what could have been?” The book chronicles the powerful grip of love- both young and mature- and one woman’s journey through her first romantic relationship, its betrayal and and how a single choice instantly and profoundly alters the trajectory of her life.
* June 8: Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter, Lay of the Land, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Independence Day, with his new book, Canada that tells the story about the effects his parents robbery has on his life
* June 9: Leonard Pitts, Miami’s own columnist in Miami with his novel Freeman, about a man who after the Civil War returns to the South to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they belonged
* June 12: Robert Goolrick, author of very popular novel The Unreliable Wife, visiting Miami with his new book Heading Out to Wonderful
* June 13: Mark Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver (founder of the Peace Corps) and Eunice Kennedy (founder of Special Olympics and sister of the late president John F. Kennedy), has written a biography, A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sarge Shriver about his father, the principles his father lived by and growing up on the famous family.
* June 14: Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, sociologist, professor at the Harvard Grad. School of Education and chair of the MacArthur Foundation, is coming to Miami to share her 10th book, Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free. In her book she explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next by interviewing a variety of people in the midst of change: a 16 ear old boy forced to leave Iran in the midst of the violent civil war; a Catholic priest who leaves the Church and a gay man who finds peace after coming out.
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