EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd @ 23rd Avenue, Oakland
Sat & Sun, Feb 17-18, 2007
Book Sales 12 noon to 5pm
Book vending to be followed by special evening events
Saturday, February 17 @ 7pm
A Dialogue with Amiri Baraka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Sunday, February 18 @ 7pm
Holla Back Presents: A Night of Third World Poetry
As part of the Bandung Spirit series, EastSide Cultural Center presents the first annual Third World Book Fair, a two-day event that presents the publications, politics and visions of enlightened Third World writers. The book fair features a Saturday evening dialogue between the internationally acclaimed authors Amiri Baraka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. They will discuss the role of dissident art and literature under an increasingly repressive climate within the U.S. and throughout the western-dominated Third World. It is a special meeting of two visionary and revolutionary minds who have both risked their well-being as the price for truth-telling, and subsequently have had their works either banned or made scarce in the mainstream literary market.
Baraka will first read excerpts from his recently released collection of short stories, Tales of the Out & the Gone, and Ngugi, the masterful Kenyan writer-in-exile, from his latest novel, Wizard of the Crow. Both books have drawn rave press reviews across the nation and beyond.
Sunday evening will present an array of local Third World poets, including surprise literary guests with new publications. Book vending will primarily take place between 12 noon and 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, with both evening events beginning at 7pm. Saturday night's door charge is $10, and Sunday's is $5. The Book Fair is free to the public during the day hours, and some vendors will be selling during evening events.
For more information, contact Maisha Quint or Greg Morozumi
510/ 533-6629 or eastsidearts@yahoo.com
2277 International Blvd @ 23rd Avenue, Oakland
Sat & Sun, Feb 17-18, 2007
Book Sales 12 noon to 5pm
Book vending to be followed by special evening events
Saturday, February 17 @ 7pm
A Dialogue with Amiri Baraka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Sunday, February 18 @ 7pm
Holla Back Presents: A Night of Third World Poetry
As part of the Bandung Spirit series, EastSide Cultural Center presents the first annual Third World Book Fair, a two-day event that presents the publications, politics and visions of enlightened Third World writers. The book fair features a Saturday evening dialogue between the internationally acclaimed authors Amiri Baraka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. They will discuss the role of dissident art and literature under an increasingly repressive climate within the U.S. and throughout the western-dominated Third World. It is a special meeting of two visionary and revolutionary minds who have both risked their well-being as the price for truth-telling, and subsequently have had their works either banned or made scarce in the mainstream literary market.
Baraka will first read excerpts from his recently released collection of short stories, Tales of the Out & the Gone, and Ngugi, the masterful Kenyan writer-in-exile, from his latest novel, Wizard of the Crow. Both books have drawn rave press reviews across the nation and beyond.
Sunday evening will present an array of local Third World poets, including surprise literary guests with new publications. Book vending will primarily take place between 12 noon and 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, with both evening events beginning at 7pm. Saturday night's door charge is $10, and Sunday's is $5. The Book Fair is free to the public during the day hours, and some vendors will be selling during evening events.
For more information, contact Maisha Quint or Greg Morozumi
510/ 533-6629 or eastsidearts@yahoo.com
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