Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Group Gazette The group business desk
Events

Eight days, three language strands, one campus

Miami Book Fair runs 15-22 November 2026 at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus. The Spanish and ReadCaribbean listings date every session, and the $18 pass undercuts two single days by $6 a head.

One campus, eight days

Miami Book Fair runs Sunday 15 November to Sunday 22 November 2026. The Street Fair closes the run on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November. Every session named here meets at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132.

The Fair's overview page lists hundreds of authors across English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. The strand pages date each session by day, room and clock. A group builds its itinerary from those listings.

The Spanish strand carries published clocks

Sunday 15 November opens the strand at 3 p.m. Santiago Roncagliolo presents El pastor y los lobos in Room 2106, Building 2, first floor.

Wednesday 18 November brings a 6:30 p.m. screening of Lezama Lima: Soltar la lengua at the Freedom Tower, Knight Skylight Gallery. Thursday 19 November carries a 7 p.m. homage to Teresa Maria Rojas in the Art Lab, Building 1, first floor.

Friday 20 November places Jaime Bayly at 7 p.m. in Room 2106, Building 2, first floor.

Saturday 21 November holds most of the strand. Room 8503, Building 8 fifth floor, runs sessions at 11.30 a.m., 1.15 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5.15 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. Room 8525 on the same floor runs 12 p.m., 1.30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4.15 p.m. and 5.45 p.m. Building 3, Room 3315 holds the XIII Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Lectura at 11 a.m., 1.15 p.m. and 2.35 p.m.

The Caribbean strand and its three languages

ReadCaribbean runs in English, Haitian Creole and French. Saturday 21 November puts three panels in Room 8302, Building 8 third floor. The Dead Stay Close: Grief, Ghosts and Caribbean Memory opens at 11 a.m. Noir, Myth and the Island Fantastic follows at 12.30 p.m. The Stories We Inherit starts at 3 p.m.

Sunday 22 November holds three more panels in Room 8302. The 11 a.m. panel runs in English with Haitian Creole interpretation. The 1 p.m. panel runs in Haitian Creole with English interpretation. Ayiti Nan Nouvel takes 3 p.m.

The Saturday panels carry no interpretation line on the guide page. A group that needs Creole or French delivery builds its programme on the Sunday slots and confirms the language with the Fair office.

The ladder prices per head

One day costs $12 for an adult, $7 for a senior over 62 and $5 for a teen aged 13 to 18. The multiday tier costs $18, $12 and $8. Anyone aged 12 or under enters free. Miami Dade College students, faculty and staff enter free on a valid MDC ID.

The multiday tier covers Saturday and Sunday. Two adult single days total $24 against $18 on the pass, a saving of $6 a head. Twenty adults pay $360 on the pass and $480 across two single days. Eight adults, three seniors and two teens pay $196 against $254.

The Street Fair page sells three buttons through a SquadUP modal: Saturday, Sunday and Two Day. No group rate, group booking route or per-order cap appears on any Fair page read for this piece. The modal serves the same three buttons to a party of twenty.

Friday carries no admission charge

The schedule block marks Friday 20 November "Free for Everyone!" with hours of 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and gates at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday carry no free line on that block.

The FAQ sets a ticket requirement for Street Fair access and the nav strip reads "Free to walk in". The 2026 guide settles the point: tickets are required for admission to the Fair grounds and Street Fair, and entry covers Off the Shelf, Children's Alley and non-ticketed weekend author sessions.

A group that lands on Friday pays the ladder for Saturday alone.

Anchor the stay on the campus

The MDC Wolfson Campus Parking Garage parks Fair visitors free from 15 to 22 November. The garage sits at 500 NE Second Ave., with the entrance on NE Fifth Street between First and Second avenues. The walk to the nearest Fair entrance runs one block.

Miami Parking Authority sells a flat $5 rate at College Station, 190 NE Third St., with access from NE Second Street. The directions page routes drivers to 145 NE Fifth Street for mapping. Ride-share and drop-off traffic uses the Green entrance at NE First Avenue south of NE Third Street.

The Fair closes streets around the campus for the run. No page read for this piece carries a coach bay or a bus parking rate, so a group arriving by coach confirms its drop and parking with MDC Public Safety.

Three items sit unpublished

The Fair publishes no hotel block, no group rate and no seat count for the rooms named above. A group of twenty cannot confirm a room holds it from the pages read for this piece.

Build the package on the published record. Saturday 21 November holds a Spanish block from 11.30 a.m. and a Caribbean block from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside one campus. Friday 20 November costs nothing per head. The pass saves $6 an adult across Saturday and Sunday.

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