18: Saturday

Emerging Voices: A Conversation
Moderator: Ira Jones
Participants: Yolanda Joe, Phyllis Perry, Kevin Powell, Lydia Okuturo, Tony Medina

10 am
Renaissance Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom
Free

Roots & Branches: Georgia Lottery Day / Southeastern Jazz Festival
Featuring the NBAF Youth Jazz Ensemble, Najma Marchelle, Earl Turbington, and Life Force with Joe Jennings & Howard Nicholson

Noon-8p
Piedmont Park Main Stage
Free

Resoundings: The Realm of Improvised Music at the End of the Century
Andrew Cyrille, Peter Brotzmann Duo, Bauer-Kowald-Sommer Trio and Roscoe Mitchell's L-R-G Composition
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.

2:00 pm
Cannon Chapel at Emory University
$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."

3:00 pm & 8:00 pm
Woodruff Arts Center: Alliance Theatre
$20.50- $29.50

Book Signing: Shay Youngblood & Kate Rushin

6 p.m.
African Spectrum in Underground Atlanta
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

Open Mic Fiction/Poetry Reading

7p.m.
Renaissance Hotel, Chastain Room
Free

An Evening with Abbey Lincoln with Regina Carter
A legendary performer and perennial National Black Arts Festival favorite, Abbey Lincoln brings her eloquent interpretations and extraordinary talents as a jazz vocalist to the Rialto. The Regina Carter Quintet is featured as the opening performance.

8:00 pm
The Rialto Center for the Arts
$25.00

The Big Dance
A traditional NBAF favorite, The Big Dance returns to the Renaissance Hotel; dancers lead the audience through a multi-generational, interactive party that explores social dance from traditional to the lindy, swing and hip-hop.

10:00pm
Renaissance Hotel Georgia Ballroom
$10.00

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
As a special treat, Miss Stickney brings the NBAF her humorous and ironic one woman show to a cabaret in the Renaissance Hotel for two nights only.

Midnight
Renaissance Hotel 25th Floor
$15

Midnight Jam: Late Night

Midnight
Renaissance Hotel Georgia Ballroom
$10.00
Series pass avaailable to Midnight Jams

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