15: Wednesday

The Art of Biography: A Conversation
Moderator: Valerie Boyd (upcoming biography of Zora Neale Hurston)
Participants: Melba Joyce Boyd (biographer of Frances E.W. Harper), Evelyn C. White (upcoming biography of Alice Walker), Robert O'Meally (biographer of Billie Holiday)

"The Art of Biography" will open with an audio tape of Zora Neale Hurston.

10 am
Renaissance Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom
Free

Roots & Branches: Girls' Night Out
The Roots & Branches Folk Art Festival continues in Piedmont Park.

Main Stage
5p African Fashion Show
630p Deborah Coleman Blues Band

Demonstration Stage
230p Barefoot Ballet
630p World Drummers' Adult Percussion Master Class

Fiction Reading II
Moderator:Rudolph Byrd
Participants: John Edgar Wideman, Marita Golden, Wole Soyinka, Thulani Davis

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

Yusef Lateef and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: African American Suite
The National Black Arts Festival and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), conducted by Yoel Levi, will merge contemporary and ancient sounds when the renown musician and composer Yusef Lateef, and his five piece ensemble Eternal Wind, join forces with Mr. Lateef's critically acclaimed African American Suite.

8:00 pm
Woodruff Arts Center: Symphony Hall
$20.00 - $35.00

Urban Bush Women
Under the artistic direction of Jawole Willa Zollar, the Urban Bush Women weave contemporary dance, music and text to create performance works rooted in the folklore and spiritual traditions of African Americans.

7:30 pm
Rialto Center for the Arts
$15.00

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."

8:00pm
Woodruff Arts Center: Alliance Theatre
$20.50- $29.50

Midnight Jams: Mixed Bag

Midnight
Renaissance Hotel Main Ballroom
$10.00
Pass available for Midnight jam series

 

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