Signings & sightings.BALTIMORE, MD Jambo, Watoto! African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Children's Book Festival, sponsored by the Ripe Harvest Foundation and The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun Daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Md., U.S. It was begun as a four-page penny tabloid in 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell, a journeyman printer from Rhode Island. , on Saturday, March 6, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. The festival takes place at the Waiters Art Gallery, 600 N. Charles Street Charles Street is the name of a north-south street in the city center of Boston, Massachusetts. It begins in the north at Leverett Circle, where it intersects Cambridge Street and Storrow Drive, and gives its name to the Charles/MGH station of the MBTA. . Featured authors include Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) and Alice McGill (In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies). For more information call 410-318-8604, or visit www.ripeharvest.org. CHICAGO, IL Edwidge Danticat, author of Breathe, Eyes, Memory, will be signing and discussing her new novel, The Dew Breaker, on March 29 at 7:30 P.M. Borders Books & Music 2210 W. 95th Street, 773-445-5471 DEARBORN, MI Author Neely Tucker will discuss and sign his book Love in the Driest Season, on March 4, at 7 P.M. Borders Books & Music 5601 Mercury Drive, 313-271-4441 Ellis Cose, author of Bone to Pick, will be signing his latest title on April 19 at 7 P.M. Borders Books & Music 5601 Mercury Drive, 313 271-4441 LOS ANGELES, CA Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will sign and discuss her novel Getting Mother's Body on May 17, at 7 P.M. Waldenbooks, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd. 310-785-0204 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Pulitzer prize-winning author Alice Walker will discuss her new work, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, on April 28, at 7 P.M. Borders Books & Music 600 Hennepin Ave., 612-339-4859 NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY Jasmine Guy will discuss her book Afeni Shakur: Evolution era Revolutionary, on March 16, at 1 P.M. Borders Books & Music 100 Broadway, 212-964-1988 Wayne Dawkins will sign his book Rugged Waters at the Sixteenth Annual Small Press Book Fair, which takes place Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28. The event will be held at 20 W. 44th Street 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. . For further details about the fair call 212-764-7021, or e-mail at smallpress@aol.com, or log on to www.smallpress.org. The Seventh Annual National Black Writers Conference takes place March 25 through March 27. The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College Medgar Evers College (MEC) is a college campus (offering bachelor's and associate's degrees) of The City University of New York. MEC was founded in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn. of the City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. will sponsor the conference with a tribute and symposium on writer John Oliver Killens John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916-October 27, 1987), a black American fiction writer, was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles, Sr., and Willie Lee Killens. His father Charles encouraged him to read Langston Hughes's writings and his mother Willie Lee, president of Dunbar . Award-winning journalist Gil Noble will deliver the keynote speech Thursday evening at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Conference activities begin on Friday, March 26 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Panel discussions take place on Saturday. Registration fees vary. Discounts are available for early registrants and college students with proper ID. For more information, call 718 270-64811 or log on to www.med.cuny.edu/nbwc, or send an e-mail to inquiry@nbwc.org,or Lvelascomedia@mec.cuny.edu. PHILADELPHIA, PA Yasmin Shiraz will be signing her book The Blueprint for My Girls March 9, at 6 P.M. Borders Books & Music One South Broad Street 215-568-7400 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Poet Laureate of San Francisco devorah major joins Mahru Elahi, Michelle Matz & WritersCorps Youth Poets for an evening of selected verse March 23 at 7:30 P.M. The reading will be held at Intersection for the Arts Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersection's reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an academic institution in the state of California. , 466 Valencia Street, located in the Mission District. For tickets and details call 415-626 2787, or visit www.theintersection.org. |
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