Photos From The March 2011 Biennial Symposium Page#1
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Bios from the August Wilson Symposium
HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUGUST WILSON
Saturday, March 26, 2011
10 a.m. –5 p.m.
Founders Auditorium; Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1650 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
The 2011 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium (NBWC) celebrated Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. Wilson was a major contributor to the canon of American literature. Wilson's literary legacy consists of ten powerful plays that depict the African-American experience in the twentieth century, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Panels and presentations featured dramatic readings by actors Jeffrey Wright and Tanya Wright; speakers included Woodie King, Jr. (founder of New Federal Theatre), playwrights Thomas Bradshaw and Ed Bullins, Professor Dale Byam (director of the film August in April); and scholars Kimberly C. Ellis, Donald Gagnon, Paul Carter Harrison, and Esmeralda Simmons (Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College).
Major funding provided by: The New York Council for the Humanities
Additional support provided by: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers
Media support provided by: AKILA Worksongs, Inc.
An Afternoon with Walter Mosley
Discussion, Reading and Book Signing
Sunday, March 20, 1:30 p.m.
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn, New York 11228
Best-selling author Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins mystery series, and the novels Walkin' the Dog; Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; The Man in My Basement; and the recently published The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, will be the special guest for an afternoon reading and book signing presented by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and the Brooklyn Public Library. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Dweck Center, the Brooklyn Public Library. For more information, please call the Center for Black Literature at 718-804-8883, www.centerforblackliterature.org; or the Brooklyn Public Library at 718-230-2100, www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org.
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and Jill Newman Productions Present
NATIONAL BLACK WRITERS CONFERENCE BENEFIT CONCERT
FEATURING MOS DEF, RUBY DEE & Guy Davis,
Gary Bartz
and Others
Produced By Jill Newman Productions
Friday, March 25, 2011
Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St.
New York, NY 10011 (between 9th and 10th Aves.) 212-414-5994
Doors Open at 7 p.m.; Concert at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets $35.00 Dinner served all night.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please go to http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=1881; www.nationalblackwritersconference.org
www.myspace.com/mosdef www.garybartz.com
The Center for Black Literature
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1650 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11225
Phone: 718-804-8884
Web site: www.centerforblackliterature.org
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