Deep Blue: Swimming in the Big Blue Sea Read-Aloud with Dashka Slater

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
12:30pm-12:50pm
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

When Kayla’s favorite dolphin floatie loses its air at the beach, she just wants to sit on the sand. But Daddy reminds her that she knows how to swim and even how to hold her breath underwater. In no time, she can grow from clinging to a dolphin floatie to swimming through the ocean just like a dolphin! Take a deep dive with award-winning author Dashka Slater into this read-aloud of Deep Blue: Swimming in the Big Blue Sea.

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis