Pre-Conference Events
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Title: Poetry Café – AUDITIONS!
Your Opportunity to Perform at the National Black Writers’ Conference!
Description of Performance date (3/25/2010): Poetry Reading with a special appearance by Stacy Ann Chin. Please contact Joi M. Sears, Coordinator for additional information at:
theatreforthefreepeople@gmail.comTime: 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, See Map
President’s Conference Center (RM 1008)
Audience: Open - High School age & up.
Admission: No Fee Required to participate.
Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Title: The National Black Writers’ Conference Presents A Pre Conference Celebration of E Lynn Harris
Description: Writers and Friends of E. Lynn Harris. Join together to celebrate his works and life. New York Times best-selling author, E. Lynn Harris, left a distinguished mark in the literary world before his passing on July 23, 2009. Authors and friends include: Victoria Christopher Murray, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Karen Hunter, Donna Hill, Terrance Dean, Stanley Bennett Clay, James Earl Hardy, and many more. Free and open to the public.
Location: Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, Tel (718) 230-2100
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Admission: FREE
Audience: Open to all.
Co- Sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza See Map
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/central/
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Title: Rites and Ceremonies of the Brooklyn African Diaspora
Description: Symposium featuring major founders of ceremonies, events, and rituals that create an annual calendar of celebration and remembrance of African heritage in Brooklyn, including Dance Africa, West Indian American Labor Day Parade, National Black Writers Conference, Tribute to the Ancestors at Coney Island, and International African Arts Festival. Presented in conjunction with Brooklyn Historical Society
Location: Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2711, Tel-(718) 222-4111 See Map
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Admission: FREE
Audience: Open to all.
National Black Writers Pre Conference Activity with Black Brooklyn Renaissance
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/default/index.html
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Title: Homage 3: Illmatic
By: Shaun Neblett AKA MC SNEB
Shaun Neblett, AKA MC SNEB, brings a reading of Homage 3: Illmatic to Brooklyn. Homage 3: Illmatic represents a tribute to rapper NaS in MC Sneb's 7 Homages for 7 MCs Cycle, a collection of seven plays that are developed from the themes of 7 distinct hip-hop albums, time periods, and artists.
Location: BRIC Arts
647 Fulton Street (entrance 57 Rockwell Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11217 See Map
Doors open at 6:30PM
Reading starts at 7:00PM
Discussion to follow the reading, moderated by April R. Silver
Tel (718) 855-7882
www.bricartsmedia.org
Please RSVP at info@shaunneblelt.com for more information visit: www.shaunneblett.com
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Title: Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series
Description: Reconstructing Memories: Pre - National Black Writer's Conference Event: An Evening With Legendary Filmmaker Haile Gerima.
Teza - Examines the displacement of African intellectuals, both at home and abroad, through the story of a young, idealistic Ethiopian doctor – Anberber. The film chronicles Anberber’s internal struggle to stay true, both to himself and to his homeland, but above all, Teza explores the possession of memory – a right humanity mandates that each of us have – the right to own our pasts.
Location: Medgar Evers College- Founders Auditorium
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Admission: FREE
Audience: Open to all.
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/filmandcultureseries
RSVP:
miles@mec.cuny.edu
or
718.804 .8815
2,3,4 or 5 Train to Franklin Avenue
Highlighted Activities
These are events that run concurrently (during the conference) and/or are special events as part of the National Black Writer’s Conference.
Youth Audience (YA) Programming Please note: Schools interested in participating in ANY Youth Programming must contact the Registration Coordinator directly to register your group. Limited seating available per school.
Date(s): Thursday, March 25- Sunday 28, 2010
Title: “Peace and Social Justice”
Black Artist as Activist Emerging Artist Exhibit
Description: The Center for Black Literature in association with Corridor Gallery, the National Conference of Artists-NY and Theatre for the Free People presents the work of the Black Artist as Activist and Transformative Agent Arts Program. As a component of this program, funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College (CUNY) offered free arts workshops which focus on issues of social justice and peace. The writing, performance, and visual art workshops were targeted to youth and emerging artists who range from age 16 – 25, during Fall 2009.
National Black Writers’ Conference
Location: Medgar Evers College Student Services Building, 1637 Bedford Avenue
Time: Opened throughout Conference.
Audience: Open to all.
Admission: No Fee Required for viewing.
Sponsored by Nathan Cummings Foundation
http://www.nathancummings.org
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Title: Children’s Literary Program - YA
Time: 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Audience: Elementary School Age
Location: Medgar Evers College, Founders Auditorium
National Black Writers’ Conference
Sponsored by Just Us Books
http://www.justusbooks.com/user.php
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
National Black Writers’ Conference
Response to Call for Papers
Description: Panel Presentations on John O. Killens, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka and Kamau Brathwaite
Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Medgar Evers College, Room TBD
Audience: Conference attendees.
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Title: High School Literary Program - YA
Tony Murillo and Tara Betts
Description: Panel Discussion and Workshop
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Medgar Evers College, Founders Auditorium
National Black Writers’ Conference
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Title: Poetry Café – YA & up
National Black Writers’ Conference
Off-Site Event:
Spoken Word Poetry Cafe
Staceyann Chin and Willie Perdomo, Featured Poets
Description: Poetry Reading with a special appearance by Stacy Ann Chin. Auditions will be held in early 2010 for those who would like to perform. Please contact Joi M. Sears, Coordinator for additional information at
theatreforthefreepeople@gmail.comTime: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
Audience: Open - ages High School age & up.
Admission: No Fee Required for viewing.
Date: Thursday, March 25
National Black Writers Conference Opening Program
at Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights.
Description: Poet, playwright, critic and historian Kamau Brathwaite will open the Conference with a talk on the conference theme And Then We Heard the Thunder: Black Writers Reconstructing Memories and Lighting the Way. The opening program is part of Black Brooklyn Renaissance presented by Brooklyn Arts Council, in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Time: 7:00 pm
Audience: Conference attendees, MEC Community, and Invited Guests.
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Title: Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara
National Black Writers’ Conference
Description: Artists and Writers Sonia Sanchez, Hattie Gossett, Eugene Redmond et al, celebrate Toni Cade Bambara, writer, activist, feminist, and filmmaker.
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Medgar Evers College, Founders Auditorium
Audience: Conference attendees.
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Off-Site Event:
The National Black Writers' Conference Presents
Talib Kweli, Gary Bartz & Gil Scott-Heron
Littlefield
622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York
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
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Description: Readings with Bernice McFadden, Tiphanie Yanique, and Rakesh Setyai
Medgar Evers College
Student Support Services Building
1637 Bedford Avenue
Mary Pinkett Lecture Hall, Rm. S122
Sponsored by Brooklyn Literary Council
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Title: Literary Readings
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Description: Writers Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Allen B. Ballard
National Black Writers’ Conference
Medgar Evers College
Student Support Services Building
1637 Bedford Avenue
Mary Pinkett Lecture Hall, Rm. S122
Sponsored by the African American Literary Book Club