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An Evening of Songs and Stories With Patti Smith
Fri 7:00 PM
Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
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In Patti Smith's 2025 memoir, Bread of Angels, a post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes readers through her teenage years, when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Smith recounts a series of profound losses. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical and pain into hope.