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21st annual celebration of black writing festival,february 2-20, 2005
After 20 years, the Celebration of Black Writing goes back to the basics: telling our stories. This year, the celebration will bring to Philadelphia acclaimed writers, authors and scholars to engage an audience of thousands through lectures, readings, workshops, panel discussions and performances over two exciting weeks in February. The festival is distinguished by its careful attention to genres from storytelling to poetry, prose, film and theater. Then we work it; we leverage this big, beautiful, black body of work by taking writers into universities, schools, to City Hall, juvenile detention centers and shelters. The Celebration of Black Writing accepts the challenge to impact the literacy of our region and to use contemporary literature to affect thousands of tiny—and momentous— transformations.
The Celebration kicks off on February 4th with a live WURD radio broadcast, sponsored by the Black Elected Officials of Philadelphia County at the Church of the Advocate. This panel discussion, Telling our Stories: What books have to do with it? will take place before a diverse studio audience. Journalists and other writers, radio hosts, scholars and elected officials will explore literature, literacy and public policy. African Americans’ stories—told and suppressed—bear witness to a wide volume of U.S. experience. They challenge, subvert, and influence the status quo. Tune in to discover the impact of African-American literature on the national dialogue, and ultimately, on the public policy that regulates our laws. .
Once the Celebration gets rolling, Art Sanctuary will collaborate with:
· the Philadelphia Folklore Project for an interactive storytelling experience with two legendary folklorists, Dr. Kathryn Morgan (Children of Strangers) and Linda Goss
· Intercultural Journeys’ for a daytime matinee concert for students and seniors of poetry and music featuring Philadelphia orchestra cellist Udi Bar-David and violinist Diane Monroe;
· and Keepers of the Culture for an Intergenerational Storytelling Concert school matinee.
· Another set of school matinees will feature African-American war veterans whose stories and pictures are chronicled in We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq. Author Yvonne Latty and photographer Ron Tarver (both of Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.), will join the panel to talk about telling these important stories. With their gracious help and a grant from the Knight Foundation, 1,000 school students received the book, whose teachers Guide is featured on the HarperCollins website.
For the third year, Art Sanctuary has partnered with more than 30 community organizations and institutional partners to include their far-flung and diverse programming in the Celebration. These organizations include the Franklin Institute of Science, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Robin’s Book Store, and The African Heritage Center. Also, close to our hearts is our North Philadelphia Neighbor, The Village of Arts and Humanities, whose tribute to the poetry’s phenomal woman, Sister Sonia Sanchez, will take place on February 25
Art Sanctuary is also grateful for the continuing partnership of more than 20 visionary educational partners whose willingness to engage with a community organization and contemporary writers impacts aspiring writers, and readers of all ages by featuring writers in the schools, universities, prisons and shelters. These partners include Philadelphia University, Community College of Philadelphia, Conestoga High School, District 1199C, Drexel University, Farrell Middle School, and House of Corrections.
In addition the Celebration will feature:
· a panel to discuss the urban relationship novel phenomenon and the black erotique. Talk about down and dirty. Panelists include popular best-sellers Zane and Omar Tyree;
· Can’t-miss Saturday, February 12, afternoon workshops for writers, including advice on getting published, getting paid, collecting black literature, writing biography and autobiography, and more with some of the most interesting and accomplished authors in the U.S.;
· A certified teachers’ workshop in storytelling with instructors Linda Goss and Caroliese Frink Reed;
· A Meet-the-Director film presentation, The Battle of Eshu and Iku, by writer/director/producer Aaron Blandon;
· music and poetry with Philadelphia Orchestra cellist and Intercultural Journeys founder Udi Bar-David and international violinist Diane Monroe;
· The Original Black Panthers – Books, Photographs, and Film Fest featuring former Panthers Kathleen Cleaver and Barbara Easley Cox;
· City Hall Brown Bag Literary Lunches: Local authors and poets reading at City Hall during the lunch hour to promote reading as fun, exciting, and educational;
· Poetry & Spoken Word Café and Open Mic with moderators Trapeta Mayson, Twin Poets, and Kyle D. Morris
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