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     InPrint Rating: N/A |
Does anyone know who the attending authors will be for HBF 2003, what the panel subjects are? In true QBR disorganized fashion, its website still doesn't have the info up...and it's weeks away. I tend to like the panels, though the readings are poorly produced and much of the actual fair part is generic black cultural event stock. Anybody going? Expectations? | ||
| Yukio Rating: N/A |
What are the exact dates of the HBF? | ||
| Yukio Rating: N/A |
Ok, I got the dates. | ||
| Sandra Rating: N/A |
I just went to the website--there is nothing there! They have a list of stuff on the left-hand side but no links with info about it--isnt it a month away? What's the problem? | ||
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The problem is that the event is notoriously disorganized, in the great negro tradition. What is the point of having a promo site if you don't even bother to put the info on it? I hate when we do things half ass. | ||
| NeeCee Rating: N/A |
http://www.qbr.com/HBF2003/hbf03_attending_authors.htm Above is the link of the participating authors. | ||
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posted from another list serv: >>DIA: beyond the harlem book fair--amiri baraka & michael samanga ================================================= Now is not Then. . That is the problem, too many are "waiting" and not doing!! Still partially duped and hypnotized by Negro intellectual versions of "the American Dream" The failure for those of us who were at the center of the last political upsurge in the US which included the Afro American Cultural Revolution, to more aggressively disseminate and distribute the teachings, the pluses and negatives of that period is a critical vacuum in the essential continuum of revolution, and we shd make self-criticism for that. That is partially a failure to set up the new structures necessary NOW, and stop rhapsodizing about what was happening "back in the day" But the Black Liberation Movement was also, naive to class and class struggle and this facilitated Betrayal (by [petty bourgeois politicians, academics, soi disant activists, & artists, ) YOumust also factor in murder of the maximum leaders of the BLM, and the failure of the Revolutionary sector of the BLM, to regroup reorganize, particularly the cultural wing, which allowed the cultural arts organizations and institutions to be dismantled and covered, thus making it easier for the revisionists (Negroes and whites) to distort history and sell a bill of bads that preached that there was no value in the BLM, the BAM, nor even the Civil Right Movement. Though the very Negroes and white folks who benefited most by this period of political upsurge were recruited to deny and obscure and attack it. We need an alternative superstructure, orgs, institutions, schools, journals, venues, networks, while at the same time struggling to maximize democracy within those arts-cultural forms in the mainstream that are still racist, submissive and controlled by white supremacy and imperialism. DuBois "Double Consciousness" must be understood to mean that we have a double edged sword to our struggle, for Democracy in the mainstream US and Self Determination, i.e. at the same time, to create those instruments and weapons, orgs, institutions, to develop our Productive Forces &c we must have even to demand equal rights and Peoples Democracy in this satanic prison AMIRI BARAKA Right now we need a publication, of politics, and art, issued weekly or BI weekly that reasserts the philosophy, principles, experience and intellectual preparation for struggle. Will you help? AMIRI B --------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems like a natural way to begin this process is to get as many writers as possible to attend the annual Black Writers' Conference at Chicago State organized by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and its founder Haki Madhubuti and held each October. I mention this as a gathering/planning place because 3rd World Press is the oldest and has been the most consistent press publishing from the tradition of the Black Arts Movement and the conference has experience we can draw on for other events. There are also a number of young and emerging writers who would benefit from the discussion/planning. If we gather there we could plan for regional fairs, culminating in some national event. I would hope it would have as one of the objectives building the infrastructure to support and promote writers, publishers, distributors who are independent and producing quality work. Michael Simanga |
