Preconference Events
Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
NBWC Poetry Café Auditions!!!!!
Edison O. Jackson Auditorium
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1638 Bedford Avenue (Academic Building 1)
Brooklyn, NY 11225
This is a New Talent event.
No artists with books printed by mainstream publishing houses.
Criteria: Originality, Performance, and Content
RSVP to audition by February 20, 2012
Send RSVP to: wendy@treblumg.com
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Selected poets from the auditions will perform at the following event during the National Black Writers Conference:
NBWC Poetry Café
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
See more about this event in Conference Highlights Section.
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Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Time: 8 PM
National Black Writers Conference Preconcert
Noir
A Music Series
at Free Candy
905 Atlantic Avenue
(@ St. James Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Suggested Donation: $10 General / $7 Students
Produced by Vicelounge
Group Rates Available: info@vicelounge.com
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Description
The National Black Writers Conference 2012 presents Noir, a preconference celebration of music and words, featuring some of the best writers who “moonlight” as amazing musicians, emcees and vocalists.
Featuring:
Jessica Care Moore
Apollo Legend. Activist. Poet. MOM. Rock/Soul star
http://mooreblackpress.com/
HumUni (Ish & Mega) -
Urbanword stars. Youth Mentors. Emcees
http://humuni.bandcamp.com/
Tuan X
Poet. Apollo Theater Music Cafe. Singer/MC
http://tuanx.com/
(i am) isis
Awarded writer. Activist. Technophile. Rock/Soul impressario
http://iamisis.com/
Jasiri Kafele
Vybe Khameleon. Lollapalloza. Hip-hop artist
Hosted By
Shanelle Gabrielle
Def Jam Poet. Lupus Activist. Singer
Tai Allen (vicelounge)
Award winning poet. Curator. Creative. Singer
http://vicelounge.com/
Gabriel Barralaga
Urban Word Youth Board. Poet.
DJ Reborn on the Tables
and special guests
Jasiri, Sabrina Gilbert & Blue Bellinger
*Artists line up is subject to change.
Find out how to be a sponsor for this event.
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Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 7 PM – 9 PM
Reading and Book Signing
with Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.”
Co-Sponsored by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Vintage Books/Anchor Books, a Division of Random House
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801
Call to RSVP 212- 491-2200
The Warmth of Other Suns is a literary nonfictional narrative that stresses the value and significance of the Great Migration as a major movement in this century. It heightens awareness of the injustices faced by Blacks who migrated from the South and the challenges they faced as they encountered economic hardships and racism. Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. This award made her the first Black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting.
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Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time: 4 PM – 6 PM
Reading and Book Signing with Nikky Finney, poet and author of Head Off & Split
Co-Sponsored by The Brooklyn Public Library and Northwestern University Press
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11236
For more information, call the Brooklyn Public Library at 718-230-2100
Nikky Finney is the author of four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011); The World Is Round (2003); Rice (1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). A professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997) edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and cofounded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.
Read this article by the author:
The Bare Arms of Angry Black Women
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Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Time: TBD
Reading and Book Signing at Skylight Gallery
In collaboration with Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s exhibit “Her Word As Witness: Women Writers of the African Diaspora.”
at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration
1368 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Exhibit dates Dec. 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012
Her Word as Witness:
Women Writers of the African Diaspora
Skylight Gallery
The exhibit features 35 photographic portraits by Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, of some of today's most compelling writers, along with excerpts from their works.
Skylight Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM and on Saturday from 1 PM to 6 PM
For more information or to book visits, call 718-636-6949.
http://restorationplaza.org/calendar/skgchg2011-0
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Conference Highlights
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
NBWC Poetry Café
Co-Sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library
Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718-230-2100
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This is your opportunity to shine! Auditions for will be held for this event in February 2012.
Date for auditions: February 27, 2012. Please see Preconference Events listed above.
This is a New Talent event.
No artists with books printed by mainstream publishing houses.
Criteria: Originality, Performance, and Content
Hosted by: Tai Allen
Featured poets: Aracelis Girmay, R. Dwayne Betts, and Patricia Smith
Produced by: Wendy Robinson
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/central
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Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Time: 11 AM to 4 PM
Literary Film Series
Films Celebrating Activism in Black Literature
Presented by African Voices
Founders Auditorium
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
See full program for film titles and descriptions.
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Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Time: 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
National Black Writers Conference
Benefit Concert
Co-Sponsored by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium
For My Sweet
1103 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Jazz concert and cultural program
Suggested Donation: TBD
Tickets will be available in February 2012
www.centralbrooklynjazzconsortium.org
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Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Tribute and Awards Program
Founders Auditorium
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
(Conference Registration is required for this event,
however, fee is waived for THIS EVENT, ON THIS DAY, ONLY!)
NBWC Awards will be presented to:
Ishmael Reed – John Oliver Killens Lifetime Achievement Award
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – W. E. B. Du Bois Award
Nikki Giovanni - Gwendolyn Brooks Award
Dr. Howard Dodson – Ida B. Wells Institutional Leadership Award
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Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
National Black Writers Conference
VIP Reception & Fundraiser
Academic Building Café
Medgar Evers College
1638 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Donation: $75 (tickets available online at www.aalbc.com)
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For information:
www.CENTERFORBLACKLITERATURE.org