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25th ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF BLACK WRITING FESTIVAL |
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2009 Schedule Please continue to check this page regularly for updates. Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Live Radio Broadcast: Writing for Our Lives ~ 5:00-7:00pm Sponsored by: Laborers’ District Council of the Metropolitan Area of Art Sanctuary kicks off the 25th Annual Celebration of Black Writing Festival with a special panel discussion broadcast on 900AM WURD. Three Come and be a part of our live radio audience, then stay for a performance
with Nigerian-born spoken-word artist and Def Poetry alumn Bassey Ikpi. If you can’t join us in person, tune in to 900AM WURD. Panelists: A. Bruce Crawley, President, Millennium 3 Management, Inc. Michael Days, Editor, Irv Randolph, Managing Editor,
The
Tree House Books Open Mic ~ 6:30-8:00pm Tree House Books, Hear some of North Philly’s youngest black writers! Kids from Tree House Books will share work they have published
in The Avenue, the organization’s neighborhood magazine. The young scribes will autograph free copies
of The Avenue and they will about how others can add to their collaborative poetry project. Writers in the Schools Authors Muriel Feelings, Eloise
Greenfield, and Eloise Prescott will be visiting area schools for
reading and classroom discussion. Student Matinees 10:00am; $5/Student The Pearl Theatre at
Avenue North, Enjoy the work and words of Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
Jerry
Pinkney (The Ugly Duckling) and Walter Dean Myers (Hoops), filmmaker Aaron Blandon
(The Battle of Eshu and Iku), at this special school matinee. CLICK HERE FOR THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD EVENTS
********************************************** SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2009
Outdoor Festival
Cecil B. Moore Avenue @ Temple University
11am-7pm ~ FREE
** Events are free
and open to the public unless otherwise noted. ** Please note event times and participants are subject to change.
8:00AM-10:00AM: Authors, VENDORS, & Volunteers Check-in All
vending authors are to report to the Welcome Tent for assigned space. All food, accessories, and other vendors are required
to check-in at the vendor desk for assigned space. 9:00AM-12:00PM:
"Writing Black Citizenship: Desire, Counter-Regulation, and Structures of Feeling." A School District of Philadelphia Literary Symposium in which scholar Houston A. Baker, Jr., references Maya
Angelou and Richard Wright--as well as his own and participants' experience of reading and writing--to examine our assumptions
about TEXTS and how we READ THE WORLD. Author of the provocative new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil
Rights Era, will show how "Black Intellectuals" provide new texts and new ways of reading that help to craft, model,
articulate a literate and masterful Black Citizenship. *********************************************************** Pre-Reading Required: Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era To Register: Contact Melissa Talley-Palmer, Education Coordinator mpalmer@artsanctuary.org or 215-232-4485. McGonigle Hall, Art Sanctuary presents a teen basketball tournament featuring teams from around the city. After the tournament,
young adult author and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Walter Dean Myers
will speak to the audience. In addition, each team member will receive a free copy of Myers’ critically acclaimed high
school basketball novel Game.
Ritter Annex Hall,
Temple University This workshop will help participants explore their relationships with their fathers using the art of letter-writing.
11:00AM: CHARLES L. BLOCKSON COLLECTION TOUR Pre-registration or sign up required at the welcome tent Curator
Diane L. Turner will take festival participants on a 20-minute tour of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, one
of the nation's leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of people of African descent. Located
in Sullivan Hall on the main campus of
11:00PM – 6:00PM: OUTDOOR
FESTIVAL Come meet and purchase
books from one of the many authors as you stroll down ** All authors, vendors and exhibitors are required to check-in.**
11:00am-5:00PM: Family Pavilion Broad Bring the whole family for a performance by storyteller Linda Goss and readings by children’s authors Eloise Greenfield, Walter Dean Myers, Dr. Lorenzo Pace and Jerry Pinkney. You’ll also find face-painting, a special workshop for parents on building a library for your children, and other fun, family-centered activities at the pavilion.
From poetry to hip-hop, dance to theater, a variety of local, independent
artists will 11:00pm – 4:00pm: PANEL DISCUSSIONS & WRITING WORKSHOPS Ritter Hall Annex classrooms - Temple University 13th
and Cecil B. Moore Avenue Please note workshops are subject to change. Note: (P) = panel discussions (W) = writing workshops 11:00-12:00 PM
Read, Black & Green: Writing About the Environment (P) - Rm 103 Angela Elizabeth Brown Activist Angela Elizabeth Brown will lead this discussion about fighting for environmental justice and explain why "going green" is essential for the Black community. The Business of Writing (P) - Rm 105 Thembisa Mshaka, Max Rodriguez and Haki R. Madhubuti Author Thembisa
Mshaka, Harlem Book Fair founder Max Rodriguez and Third World Press founder Haki R. Madhubuti share the ins and outs of the
business side of writing. Pay Yourself First: A Financial Workshop for Surviving the Economy (W) Rm 101 Jesse B. Brown Achieve financial freedom using step-by-step instructions from
award-winning investment manager Jesse B. Brown. Discover the easy-to-follow, down-to-earth secret to living your dreams,
whether it is buying up a new home or car, sending your children to college, retiring rich, or going on that once-in-a-lifetime
vacation. 12:00-1:00PM: Writing Your Memoirs (P) - Rm 110 Aliya S. King and Lori L. Tharps Everyone has a life story to tell.
How do you transform your life story into something publishable? Writers Aliya S. King and Lori L. Tharps will share
their secrets to writing a successful memoir. A Story to Tell: Black, Gay & Silence (P) - Rm 108 Perry D. Varner and Lisa C. Moore In this frank discussion, RedBone Press founder and editor Lisa C. Moore and writer Perry D. Varner will share their story of being Black and gay in a world that too often attempts to silence them.
Putting Your Best Words Forward: Writing Effective College Essays (W) - Rm 106 Melissa Rowe This interactive workshop will help high school students learn to write
creatively and effectively for college admissions and scholarship essays. We will focus on bringing each participant’s
unique voice, strengths and ambitions to the page. Come prepared to share yourself with the group. Writing Your Story to Heal From Your Past (W) - Rm 107 Sylvia Coleman Award-winning journalist and the author
of the new book Creating a New Normal: Cleaning Up a Dysfunctional Life,
shares how you can transform your personal pain into powerful,
healing writing. 12:30PM-2:30PM:
PUBLISHERS’ OPEN CALL - Rm 104 Editors from HBF Publishers in association with Harlem Book
Fair will see writers,
consider manuscripits for publication, and give profession advice to writers. Bring a 1-page synopsis and the first two chapters of your fiction or non-fiction manuscript for a 20-minute consultation. 1:00-2:00PM Something Like Beautiful: Writing About Parenting in the 21st Century (P) - Rm 101 Writer, poet and activist asha
bandele talks with Oneisha Johnson, the 2009 One Book, One Philadelphia essay
winner, about the process of writing her powerful new memoir, Something Like Beautiful:
One Single Mother’s Journey and writing about parenting in the new millennium. Thembisa Mshaka, Maori Holmes and Monie Love Thembisa Mshaka, author of Put Your
Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business and Maori Holmes, president of Karmalux Creative, Inc., and Monie Love demystify the entertainment field. They will provide practical advice about how to navigate
the entertainment superhighway and find the job of a lifetime. Writing the Good News (W) - Rm 105 Dwayne Corey Shipley The Bishop’s Choir director will teach you how to tell the good news
through writing, music and lyrics. Screenwriting (P) - Rm 107 Ed Shockley & Rick Cummings In this workshop designed for screenwriters and filmmakers, noted playwright, director and screenwriter Ed Shockley and independent filmmaker Rick Cummings will cover a all aspects of screenwriting, including narrative point of view, funding and more.
1:00PM-3:00PM:
Digital Storytelling: Chronicling Black Philanthropy (W) - Walk Auditorium Lisa Nelson-Haynes Sponsored by The Philadelphia Foundation Lisa Nelson-Haynes, associate director of the Painted Bride Art Center, builds this story circle, which will explore presenters’ early memories of giving, philanthropic a-ha moments and their giving habits today.
Writing Toward Freedom - Kiva Auditorium 1pm: Panel Discussion: Writers Dianna Marder and Joe Blake, and artist Theodore Harris will discuss the work they've done with incarcerated populations through First Person Arts and the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.Community
members who have been incarcerated or had loved ones who have dealt with the criminal justice system are invited to participate
in this workshop, which will prompts exercises -- and creative support. 2:00-3:00PM
New Media: Twitter This, Twitter That (W) - Rm 104 Touré Journalist, author and commentator Touré will show participants
how they can use Twitter to communicate with an audience, build blogging skills and make the most of a small amount of space.
Character: Struggling, Overcoming and Living To Tell The Story - Rm 106 Solomon Jones (W) Payback author Solomon Jones talks about how writers who have faced struggles and overcome them can incorporate their life lessons into their stories.
Writing Truth to Power (P) - Rm 110 A. Bruce Crawley & Linn Washington Veteran advocacy journalists A. Bruce Crawley and Linn Washington talk about how they use writing as a tool for achieving social justice. 3:00-4:00PM: Writing for Our Lives (P) - Main Stage Featuring
this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Terry McMillan, Dr. Houston A. Baker, Jr., Walter
Dean Myers, Jerry Pinkney; 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Haki R. Madhubuti
and author/professor Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. Our distinguished panel will talk about this
year’s Celebration of Black Writing theme, “writing for our lives.” Hear their thoughts on how a book can
save a life and how great writing can help our community. |
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