The Spoken Word Cafe Plays South Beach!

The Spoken Word Café Crosses the Causeway to South Beach, becomes
regular monthly event

The choice gathering place for South Florida's hottest musical and
literary talent is crossing the causeway into Miami Beach and gaining a new
weekly audience. Drawing poets and writers, performance artists,
singers, songwriters, and musicians who share their work from the same stage,
Spoken Word Café events have grown in popularity over the years. In
response, the Spoken Word Café announces a partnership with Art
Center/South Florida, a non-profit organization, to present a regular monthly
schedule at a South Beach venue.

The Spoken Word Café was created by The Florida Center for the Literary
Arts at Miami Dade College three years ago. Initially, the Café took
place only during the week of Miami Book Fair International. Starting
this September, the Spoken Word Café will welcome loyal fans and newcomers
to its new home at Art Center/South Florida's gallery at 800 Lincoln
Road, on the corner of Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, at 7:30 p.m.
every third Wednesday each month.

The Florida Center for the Literary Arts will present the writers.
Spoken Word Café partner Books & Books will contribute refreshments and
sell books on site at the Art Center/South Florida gallery. They will also
present the musical acts, al fresco, a block away, in front of their
store at 933 Lincoln Road.

Upcoming scheduled appearances include Teresa de la Caridad Doval and
Sandra Castillo on Wednesday, September 21st, and poet Richard Blanco on
Wednesday, October 19th. Doval, a visiting writer whose novel, A Girl
Like Che Guevara, chronicles the lives of teenagers in communist Cuba.
Castillo is a local writer and professor whose book of poems, My Father
Sings to My Embarrassment explores the Cuban-American experience.
Blanco, also a Miami poet, will introduce his newest book of poems
Directions to the Beach of the Dead. This debut reading from Blanco's second
collection will be followed by a book launch party.

The Spoken Word Café will return to its original home at Miami Dade
College's Wolfson Campus for three days during the Miami Book Fair
International Street Fair: Friday evening, November 18th, and all day Saturday
and Sunday November 19th and 20th. During the week of the Book Fair,
the Spoken Word Café will meet every night, Monday through Thursday,
November 14th through the 17th, at its new location at the Art Center/South
Florida on Lincoln Road.

WHAT: Spoken Word Café

WHEN: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

(Beginning in September)

WHERE: Art Center/South Florida

800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

The Spoken Word Café is an arts encounter that helps foster community
and promotes local talent. The Café is not a regular "open-mic" venue,
although open-mic nights do occasionally make it into the schedule.

More Event Information: Visit http://www.flcenterlitarts.com , or call
the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at (305) 237-3940.

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