Miami Lit Podcast

Vanessa Garcia is a Cuban-American multidisciplinary writer -- screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist/essayist -- who has written and worked for Sesame Street, Caillou, We Are Family, and Dora the Explorer. She’s the author of the novel, White Light, which won an International Latino Book Award and was one of NPRs best books of 2015. Her first Picture Book for children, What the Bread Says, launched October 2022.

Find out more at https://www.vanessagarcia.org/

You can buy the books mentioned here:

What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan https://a.co/d/2Gpj8XV
White Light https://a.co/d/1dQ6n0L

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Today we are joined by Gena Sims , founder of the Autism Theater Project . Her mission is to teach, entertain and inspire while giving a voice to the autism community. Please find out more at: https://autismtheaterproject.org/

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♥️ Jenny

Episode #66 is now live on YouTube and major podcast platforms!

** A special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, JADA Art Fair **

JADA Art Fair hosted Miami Art Week in collaboration with FeSeLa, Miami Beach JCC, Miami Beach, TNR, and Landz. The exhibition showcased a diverse array of art spaces both on-site and in the Metaverse, including paintings, films, installations, performances, and NFTs from artists from the U.S., Paris, Brazil, Spain, Israel, Dubai, and Iran. Find out more at https://www.jadaartfair.com

We are very grateful we were invited to Miami Art Week and to have met such great guests.

The following interviews were filmed at the Miami Beach JCC with a live audience. We bookmarked each talk for your convenience.

00:00 -- Diana “Didi” Contreras

14:49 -- Antonio Trincao

41:33 --  Erik Mendelson

1:14:05 -- JADA Art Fair organizers: JÔNATAS, Dana Blickensderfer, and Samuel Loetscher

1:53:51 -- Nick and Hugo of Sanctuary Cannabis

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❤️ Jenny