Bookleggers Library Inc

Adventure-leggers - miami's only youth and comic book festival for kids, adventure-leggers is a yearly festival exploring creativity through comic books, literary adventure and interactive programming. The festival offers interactive experiences focused on hands-on informal family learning centered around steam activities as well as music, artist-led workshops, technology, creative-professional workshops and more. Adventure-leggers aims to promote a lifelong love of reading while also introducing kids to creative pursuits that might spark their curiosity.

Libraries & collections - the main program of bookleggers library is the free bookstore housed at the bakehouse art complex open 5 days a week to the general public. The collection is entirely donation based, and people, institutions, and businesses drop off books (approximately 125 per week) instead of destroying them. Approximately 25 people per day visit the shop and take books. The organization has distributed over 125,000 free books in the last 13 years.

Digital programs: booklandia & storytime are our flagship digital programs. Booklandia is a partnership between islandia journal and bookleggers library to scan rare, out-of-print books and ephemera into their final digital forms, and to commission creative work inspired by them. In 2024 bookleggers produced and launched storytime, the podcast. Each season follows one artist as they rediscover their roots and tell the stories of where they are from.