12: Sunday

Significant Voices: Interviews with Pre-eminent Theater Professionals:
Conversation # 1: Vondie Curtis Hall and Glenda Dickerson

10:00 a.m.
Atlanta Ballroom, Renaissance Hotel
Free

KISS 104.7 Book Club Brunch with Atlanta's Authors

11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Rich's Department Store, Greenbriar Mall
Free

Jazz Brunch with singer Kathleen Bertrand
Sponsored by the Atlanta Journal ~ Constitution

11:00 a.m.
Renaissance Hotel; Chastain Room 25th Floor
$25

Jazz Brunch with chanteuse Kathleen Bertrand
Sponsored by the Atlanta Journal ~ Constitution

1:30 p.m.
Renaissance Hotel; Chastain Room 25th Floor
$25

Roots & Branches: Afrika Fete '98
The Roots & Branches Folk Art Festival continues with Afrika Fete: a day of Praise and cultural exploration concluding with Africa Fete's 3 hour monster performance in Piedmont Park.

Main Stage
1p The Jazz Ensemble
2p Gullah Praise House Shouters
230p Double Dutch Force
3p Okyerama Asante & J Plunky Branch
4p Africa Fete '98
Salif Keita & the Wanda Band, Papa Wemba & Molokai, Cheikh Lo and Maryam Mursal

Demonstration Stage
1p Gullah Stories
130 Double Dutch Force
2p Sweetgrass Basketry
3p Akbar Imhotep's Storytelling
4p African Beauty Ideals
5p Tie Dye

Summer Jazz Series:
Simone & Company, Michael Ross, Amiel Jacques Lesure and others

3:00-7:30 p.m.
Hammonds House Museum & Gardens
$15 General Admission

Book Signing: Eugene Redmond

2p.m.
Medu Books in Greenbriar Mall
Free

Doll Exhibit: House of Style Panel Discussion
Lloyd Boston, Harriette Cole and Constance White

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Atlanta Ballroom, Renaissance Hotel
Free

August Wilson's Jitney
The National Black Arts Festival and Crossroads Theatre Company present this centerpiece production, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's Jitney.  Set in a Jitney station- a self-created, self-supplied, self-owned and self-run taxi service- Wilson says he "...wanted to show how this group of men created jobs for themselves and became self-sufficient. They made a way out, of no way, and did it with a certain joy, a zest."

Preview Performance
2:00 pm
Woodruff Arts Center: Alliance Theatre
$20.00

The Contract
This socio-political religious drama written by Nathan Ross Freeman is a surprising, in your face examination of man's relationship with the divine. Features Phyllis Yvonne Stickney and Timothy Stickney.

2:00 pm
14th Street Playhouse, 2nd Stage

Homage: Premiere Co-Sponsored by the High Museum of Art
The National Black Arts Festival in association with the High Museum of Art will premiere "Homage", a series of three short new works exploring the theme of respect and honor commissioned by the NBAF, and created by four outstanding African-American filmmakers: Charles Burnett, Camille Billups, Leslie Harris and Reginald Hudlin.

3:00 pm
Reception follows in the lobby sponsored by the National Black Programming Consortium, WPBA-TV Atlanta and WQED-TV Pittsburgh
High Museum of Art: Rich Auditorium
$10.00

Poetry Reading
Nikky Finney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Ishmael Reed

7:00 pm
Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech.
$10.00
Literature Series Pass For All Six Evening Readings $54.00

Hellbound Train  with Geri Allen
This one hour silent film from the 30's by Black pioneer Elois Gist was discovered by Library of Congress scholar Dr. Gloria Gibson-Hudson and reconstructed by Toriano Berry. Composer Geri Allen will perform her original accompaniment on the piano.

7:00 pm
Reception precedes the program in the Woodruff Arts Center Galleria
Rich Auditorium
$10.00

August Wilson's Jitney : Opening Performance & Reception
The National Black Arts Festival and Crossroads Theatre Company present this centerpiece production, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's Jitney.  Set in a Jitney station- a self-created, self-supplied, self-owned and self-run taxi service- Wilson says he "...wanted to show how this group of men created jobs for themselves and became self-sufficient. They made a way out, of no way, and did it with a certain joy, a zest."

Opening Performance to be followed by a special Opening Reception
8:00 pm
Woodruff Arts Center: Alliance Theatre
$75.00

ADODI MUSE: A Gay Negro Ensemble

The NBAF is pleased to present Atlanta's own ADODI MUSE in a performance exploring black gay men's changing places and continuing struggles in today's society.

8:00 pm
14th Street Playhouse Mainstage
$10.00

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Monday July 13 Tuesday July 14 Wednesday July 15
Thursday July 16 Friday July 17 Saturday July 18 Sunday July 19
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