Harlem hosts first "Up South" Book Fest.Up South, Inc. and Aaron Davis Hall Aaron Davis Hall is a Performing Arts Center located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. History Aaron Davis Hall was founded in 1981 and is located on the campus of the City College of New York, between West 133rd and 135th Streets on Convent Avenue. Convent Ave. , Inc./Harlem Stage will present the first annual Up South International Book Festival (USIBF), September 29-October 1 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Spearheaded by Malaika Adero (pictured right), senior editor for Atria Atria The heart has four chambers. The right and left atria are at the top of the heart and receive returning blood from the veins. The right and left ventricles are at the bottom of the heart and act as the body's main pumps. Books, the festival, which will be held at the Aaron Davis Hall, Inc./Harlem Stage at the Gatehouse, 135th Street and Convent Ave, will celebrate world culture through literature, music, dance, art and discussion. "The purpose of the USIBF is to bring attention to the amazing contemporary work being published today, especially by people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important and from an international perspective and promote reading as a leisure-time activity," says Adero. She founded Up South, Inc., a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that will produce the annual book and performing arts festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. and other events. Up South refers to the familiar term applied to migration of African Americans from the South to the North. "The festival is primarily meant to showcase the best in contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry, new work by established and emerging artists across boundaries of culture and generation, secondarily to show the narrative and cross-cultural links between literature and art, i.e. dance, music, film, theatre," says Adero. Some events will be bilingual, English/Spanish. Supporters/sponsors for this festival include the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing (at Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. ); Atria Books/Simon & Schuster; the Victoria Sanders Literary Agency; and other individuals or organizations in the publishing and cultural community. Hue Man Bookstore is a partner of the festival and will be the exclusive vendor of books and merchandise. Book signings will follow each event. Mobay Restaurant is the exclusive vendor for the food pavilion. Organizers expect up to 1,000 people to attend various phases of the festival. Attendance fees are $25 for daytime programs, $35 for evening programs, $55 for a day-evening combination or $150 for a full pass to festival events. Opening day events include a panel discussion with Dawn Davis, editorial director of Amistad/HarperCollins, on how books reach an audience, from the editorial process to publication; dialogues among African American, Caribbean and Latino authors; readings and dialogue with Ruby Dee, Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings of Ossie Davis (Atria Books, 2006) and Jewell Parker Rhodes Jewell Parker Rhodes (b.1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist. Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. , Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness (Atria Books, 2006); dance by Ronald K. Brown of Evidence Dance Company; and jazz by the Billy Bang Quintet. For more information: www.upsouthinternationalbookfestival.com/Contact Up South, Inc. at: bluemedia@aol.com, By Angela P. Dodson: E-mail your news to angela4bibr@aol.com |
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