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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 22-24,
2008
Cecil B. Moore Avenue @ Temple University
Join us Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24,
2008 for the 24th Annual Celebration of Black Writing Festival! This year’s
theme: Black Family Values: Our Village, Our Writing, Our Future will feature panels and discussions with authors whose work, from the light-hearted
to the most serious, focuses on the black community. Black Family Values—the
extended family, our international village—have kept African-Americans alive in this country, no matter what.
In addition, we are proud to honor activist, poet and publisher of Third World Press Haki Madhubuti as the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Be sure to purchase your tickets early to the Friday
night ceremony!
These three days of mostly free literary events are open
to the public as we honor black family values, our culture, promote reading and literacy in our community! Hope
to see you there!
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Haki Madhubuti
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
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Join us as
we honor Haki Madhubuti, author, essayist, educator and publisher
of Third World Press, whose extraordinary work to educate young people have inspired thousands, with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Featured
guests include: Walter Mosley, Eloise Greenfield, Omar Tyree , Dr.
Regina Jennings, Dr. Derrick Bell, Twin Poets, and many more.
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International
award winning artist and designer of the first United States Postal Stamp for the Kwanzaa holiday will attend the writing
festival on Saturday, May 24, 2008.
Get
your festival poster and have Ms. Saint James signed them. She will be available at 1:30pm for book and poster signing.
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Philadelphia's homeboy and New York Time's best-selling author, Omar Tyree, comes home for the 24th Annual Celebration of Black Writing Festival.
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Book Fair - Saturday, May 24, 2008
FREE
Download your the registration form now!
Reserve your space for the Book Fair NOW !!!
Attention vendors (food, books, accessories), authors (publish or non publish), and non/for profit organizations!
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Bring your kids to hear readings from children’s
authors: Eloise Greenfield, and
Synthia Saint James in a special presentation. Enjoy face painting and other children’s
activities.
Hip Hop Youth Pavilion (12:00-6:00pm)
Featuring the talents of writers, performers, and activists whose works appeal
to the hip-hop generation. The theme: WHAT!: Writing. Hip-Hop. Advancement. Togetherness. This pavilion focuses on using the power of writing, poetry, and music to foster a
sense of collective purpose, pride, and advancement among the hip-hop generation.
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Visit these authors at the
Celebration of Black Writing Festival:
Dr. Derrick
Bell * Alice Bernstein * Dr. Diane Brown * Dr. Arlene Churn * Lynette Clemetson * W. Marvin Dulaney * Trey
Ellis * Lise Funderburg * Eloise Greenfield * Dr. Regina Jennings * Solomon
Jones * Tayari Jones * Dr. Verna Keith * Carol D. Lee * Haki Madhubuti* Trapeta Mayson * Nathan McCall * Walter Mosley * Patrick Oliver * Imani Perry * Twin Poets * Synthia Saint James * Salome Thomas-El * Omar Tyree
* Lifetime Achievement Recipient
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Our Sponsors
Art Sanctuary gratefully acknowledges the financial and/or in-kind contributions
of these sponsors who made it possible to produce the Celebration of Black Writing Festival. Thank You!
Advanta
Foundation * Alston-Beech Foundation * AMETEK Foundation, Inc. * Citizens Bank Foundation * Dietrich Foundation * Dry
Family Foundation * Evelev Foundation * The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation * Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation
(GPTMC) * Independence Foundation * IXIS North America * Julian A. and Lois G. Brodsky Foundation * The Lida Foundation * Lomax Family
Foundation * National Endowment for the Arts * New York Times Foundation * Pennsylvania Council on the Arts *
Philadelphia
Cultural Fund * Philadelphia Tribune * Phoebe
Haas Charitable Trust "A" * Samuel S. Fels Fund * St. Christopher’s Church * Stockton Rush Bartol * Verizon Foundation*
Union Benevolent Association * Wachovia Foundation * William Penn Foundation.
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Read KYW News Radio's interview with Walter Mosley (May 20, 2008)
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