17: Friday

The Life and Legacy of Audre Lorde
Moderator: Jewelle Gomez
Participants: Shay Youngblood, Michelle Parkerson, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kate Rushin

10 am
Renaissance Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom
Free

Book Signing: Kalamu ya Salaam & The Last Poets

2 p.m.
Medu Books in Greenbriar Mall
Free

Book Signing: Nathan McCall

3 p.m.
Medu Books in Greenbriar Mall
Free

Tribute to Tom Dent

4p.m.
Renaissance Hotel, Norcross Room
Free

Funky Friday Dance Party
The Roots & Branches Folk Art Festival continues in Piedmont Park.

Main Stage
5p Smooth & EZ Dancers
530p Step Afrika!
6-8p FGCR, The Original-P

Demonstration Stage
230p "Harriett Returns for Us"
A one woman show bringing the life and times of Harriett Tubman and her heroic work to life.
7pm "Harriett Returns for Us"
630-830  World Drummer Adult Percussion Master Class

Book Signing: Quincy Troupe

5 p.m.
Medu Books in Greenbriar Mall
Free

Back to BAKA

Judith Alexa Jackson Sirius Komedy lived with the Twa people in the rain forest of West Africa, and in this piece shares her journey- a journey to BAKA, and back.

6:00 pm
14th Street Playhouse Second Stage
$10.00

Words Meet Music: Featuring The Last Poets
Moderator: Saul Williams
Participants: Kenneth Zakee, Sonja Marie, Jessica Care Moore, Kalamu ya Salaam and the Word Band, Kamau Daaood and his Trio

6:00 pm
Variety Playhouse
$10.00
Literature Series Pass For All Six Evening Readings $54.00

Resoundings: The Realm of Improvised Music at the End of the Century
Peter Brotzman Trio, George Lewis' Voyager Project with Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker, and Trio Three with Reggie Workman, Oliver Lake and Andrew Cyrille
A three day mini-summit featuring three concerts, a symposium and a performance workshop. A collaboration between the NBAF, the Goethe Institut and the Arts Festival of Atlanta brings together African American, German, British and Japanese artists on the cutting edge. Presented in partnership with Lufthansa.

8:00 pm
Walter Hill Auditorium at The Woodruff Arts Center
$12.00

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."

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

Blues Rooms and Brand New People On The Planet
Award winning choreographer and dancer Dianne McIntyre and acclaimed recording artist Olu Dara join forces performing these pieces for two very special evenings.

7:30 pm
Rialto Center for the Arts
$15.00

The Black Rock Coalition presents
     "A Max & Abbey Inversion in a Jungle Style"

Greg Tate, Artistic Director/Conductor; Vernon Reid, Arranger & Lead Guitar; Helga Davis, Vocals
A veritable "Who's Who In African American and European Rock Bands" comes together to form the 1998 Black Rock Coalition in this almost experimental, almost other-worldly, but definitely rocking performance.

10:00 pm
Variety Playhouse
$18.00

Open Mic: Black Erotica

midnight
Renaissance Hotel, Chastain Room
Free

Midnight Jam: Singers Unlimited with Donald Smith

Midnight
Renaissance Hotel Georgia Ballroom
$10.00
Series pass available for Midnight Jams

Ongoing Events Friday July 10 Saturday July 11 Sunday July 12
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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