November 21, 2014 all weekend long!

Artist's Book Lounge at the Miami International Book Fair

On, November 21 EXILE opens its Artist’s Book Lounge at the Miami Book Fair International. The Miami Book Fair is an annual literary event that celebrates authors and books from around the world. The Fair, which is in its 31st year, is located in Downtown Miami on the campus of Miami Dade School. And this year, for the first time, EXILE is proud to become a part of the event!

The Artist’s Book Lounge is our third pop-up location and will present a selection of curated titles in a space designed to allow our guests to relax, browse, and enjoy. We have tables set up for some of our biggest publishers including Printed Matter, Karma, Siglio, Boo Hooray, Christine Burgin, Book Works, and many others.

Outside our lounge, look out for Yoko Ono’s “Wish Trees,” an interactive artwork where you can create and place your very own wish. Inside, our founder, Amanda Keeley, will offer books tours while music provided by Miami’s own SWEAT records gets you in the right mood for some browsing.

Also in our lounge, EXILE will also host a number of speakers and presenters related to our titles. Check our our program schedule below to see what will be happening and come stop by any time to listen, relax, and read.

Friday, November 21
Opening day of the street fair.
Amanda Keeley will offer book tours, SWEAT records is programming some loungey music.

Saturday, November 22
11:00 am Leila Leder Kremer and Juana Meneses of Portable Editions
12:30 pm The Use and Abuse of Art: a marathon reading by Sarah MK Moody
1:30 pm DADA + FLUXUS by Ginny Lloyd & Friends
2:00 pm Café con Libros with Books are Nice! featuring Peggy Nola
4:00 pm BASELGEDDON: A Novela Slideshow by Andrew Kaufman
5:00 pm Flash Poetry Mob with Isis Miller

Sunday, November 23
10:00 am Special appearance by Peter London Global Dance Company
12:30 pm Performative Reading by Cristina Favretto with Amanda Keeley
(note: this takes place in room 8525- Building 8, 5th floor)
1:15 pm Live Printing with Domingo Castillo
2:30 pm DADA + FLUXUS by Ginny Lloyd & Friends
3:00 pm The Use and Abuse of Art: a marathon reading by Sarah MK Moody
4:30 pm Book artist Ruth Behar discusses her books and collaborations