Gaudí: Architect of Imagination Read-Aloud with Susan B. Katz

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
2:30pm-2:50pm
Audiences:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

When Antoni Gaudí, son of a Catalan blacksmith, was first starting out, many people called his unusual ideas eccentric or even crazy. But his inventive, daring, and flamboyant style eventually made him a world-famous architect! Today, Barcelona shines with Gaudí’s colorful mosaics, playful flowing forms, and imaginative facades. Listen to this inspiring biography at Susan B. Katz’s read-aloud of Gaudí: Architect of Imagination!

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.

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