The National Black Writers' Conference is being streamed live for a number of sessions. See the schedule below for the links.
Streaming is only active at the scheduled times.
Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize Winning Author
Honorary Chair
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Re-Envisioning Our Lives through Literature
Writing & Literature Workshops for Elementary, Middle School & High School Students
9:00 am to 11:30am
Elementary School Program
Cheryl and Wade Hudson, Zetta Elliot, Tony Medina
Sponsored by Just Us Books
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Middle School Writing Workshop
Tonya Hegamin
High School Program
Tara Betts, John Murillo and Abiodun Oyewole, Featured Poets
High School Writing Workshop - Sponsored by PEN American Center
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Elders Workshop Presentation (Medgar Evers College)
Donna Hill, Moderator
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Off-Site Event:
Spoken Word Poetry Cafe
Staceyann Chin and Willie Perdomo, Featured Poets
Location:
Brooklyn Public Library See Map
Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718-230-2100
Conference Papers on Tony Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite and John Oliver Killens
Medgar Evers College SeeMap
Student Support Services Building
1637 Bedford Avenue
Mary Pinkett Lecture Hall,
Student Services Building, S122
9:30 am to 10:45 am
"The Resurrection of Memory in the Works of Toni Morrison"
Robin Ford, Moderator
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm
"Music as Language in African American Texts"
Emmanuela Maurice, Moderator
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
"The Legacy of John Oliver Killens"
TBA, Moderator
3:30 pm to 4:45 pm
"The Politics of Language"
Baker Wilson, Moderator
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Presentation of Student Play, Fanon Founders Auditorium
Featuring Students at Medgar Evers College, Written by Prof. Delridge Hunter
5:00 pm
VIP Opening Reception, at Medgar Evers College
President's Conference Center, Rm. 1008
Sponsored by the Caribbean Chamber of Commerce and Industry Incorporated
7:00 PM
Official Conference Opening:
A Conversation with Kamau Brathwaite and
Welcome to South End Press
Supported by Black Brooklyn Renaissance in partnership with the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Terrie M. Williams, Mistress of Ceremonies
Thomas Sayers-Ellis, Introduction of Kamau Brathwaite
Founders Auditorium, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Video Stream
Friday, March 26, 2010
Leroy Baylor, Master of Ceremonies
10:00 am to 11:30 am
"The Black Writer as Literary Activist"
Patrick Oliver, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Dorothea Smartt, and Frank Wilderson III
Louis Reyes Rivera, Moderator
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
"Politics and Satire in the Literature of Black Writers"
Herb Boyd, Thomas Bradshaw, Charles D. Ellison and Major Owens
Obery M.Hendricks as Moderator
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
"Shifting Identities: The Black Writer in the African Diaspora"
Edwidge Danticat, Courttia Newland, Colin Channer and Carole Boyce-Davies Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Moderator
Video Stream
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
"Black Writers Reconstructing the Master Narrative"
Catherine Acholonu, John F Baker Jr., Breena Clarke & Betty DeRamus
Pamela Newkirk, Moderator
Video Stream
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
"Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara"
Malaika Adero, Hattie Gossett, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Linda Holmes, Louis Massiah, Eugene Redmond, Eleanor Traylor, Cheryl Wall, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Sonia Sanchez
Linda J. Holmes Moderator
Sponsored by The Links, Incorporated
Video Stream
8:30 pm
Off-Site Event:
The National Black Writers' Conference Presents
Talib Kweli, Gary Bartz & Gil Scott-Heron
Produced by Jill Newman Productions
Littlefield
622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York See Map
Doors Open: 8:30 pm Concert: 9:30 pm
Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door
For Tickets, visit http://www.littlefieldnyc.com
Jill Newman Productions 917-561-6056, http://www.jillnewmanproductions.com
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Kyra Gaunt, Mistress of Ceremonies
10:00 am to 11:30 am
"The Impact of Hip Hop and Popular Culture in the Literature of Black Writers"
Steven C. Fullwood, Felicia Pride & Toure
Karen Hunter, Moderator
Video Stream
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
"The Impact of the Internet: Blogging, Publishing and Writing."
Grace Ali, Nick Charles, Troy Johnson & April Silver
Esther Armah, Moderator
Video Stream
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
"Literary Encounters: East Meets West—A Dialogue"
Meena Alexander, Marina Budhos, Shelley Eversley, and M G Vassinji
Margaret Cox, Moderator
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
"The Impact of War & Natural Disasters in Literature by Black Writers"
Chris Abani, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, James McBride and Maaza Mengiste
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Kevin Powell – Featured Speaker
"Black Writers Creating Memories and Lighting the Way"
Video Stream
Readings
The National Black Writers' Conference Reading Series is Sponsored by the African American Literary Book Club, the Brooklyn Literary Council and the National Black Writers' Conference
Medgar Evers College
Student Support Services Building
1637 Bedford Avenue
Mary Pinkett Lecture Hall, Rm. S122
11:00 am to 11:30 am
Donna Hill
Sponsored by the Center for Black Literature
12:00 pm to 12:30 pm
Colson Whitehead
Sponsored by the National Black Writers Conference
12:45 pm to 1:15 pm
Joy James
Sponsored bySouth End Press
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Bernice McFadden, Rakesh Satyal, Tiphanie Yanique
Sponsored by the Brooklyn Literary Council
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Allen B. Ballard, Victor LaValle, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Sponsored by the African American Literature Book Club
6:30 pm
Off-Site Event:
Awards Reception and VIP Reception
Susan L. Taylor, Emcee
Honorees:
Toni Morrison, Noble Prize Winning Author& Honorary Chair, NBWC
Amiri Baraka, Poet, Essayist
Kamau Brathwaite, Poet, Cultural Historian and Professor New York University
Dr. Edison O. Jackson, former President, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Location
ARTCURIAN Gallery at Arthur Bennett Hall
22 Chapel Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201 See Map
www.artcurian.org
Tickets $75
To Purchase Tickets, visit AALBC.COM
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Mistress of Ceremonies
Talkshops
10:00 am to 11:15 am
Fiction, Tayari Jones
**Poetry – Sonia Sanchez
Book Reviews: Clarence V. Reynolds
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dramatic Writing- Thulani Davis
Creative Non Fiction: TK
Book Proposals- Krishan Trotman
Panel Discussions
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
"Speculative Fiction: Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural in the Fiction of Black Writers"
L.A. Banks, Michael Boatman, Jewell Parker Rhodes & Cheo Tyehimba
Dale Allender, Moderator
Video Stream
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
***"Restoring Community: Black Writers Respond to the Environmental Crises"
Majora Carter, Alixa and Naima (Climbing PoeTree), Omar Freilla
Nina Mercer, Moderator
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
"Editors, Agents, Writers and Publishers on the Literature of Black Writers"
Regina Brooks, Linda Duggins ,Chris Jackson & Johnny Temple
Fred Beauford, Moderator
Video Stream
*Sponsored by Con Edison
**Poetry Talkshop is Sponsored by The Links, Incorporated
***Sponsored by Con Edison
Brenda M. Greene, PhD
Conference Director, Executive Director, The Center for Black Literature
Program is Subject to Change.