Authors' Book Signing Pavilion - Charles Chatmon, Producer
Cook's Corner & Leimert Park Certified Farmers' Market - Pompea Smith, Producer
Vision Theatre Parking Lot & Various Leimert Park
Village Merchants
Authors, Book Publishers,
Writing/Creative Artists &
Poets' Literary Pavilion
The Celebration of a New Tradition Begins!
Children's Village
& Reading Corner
Vision Theatre Parking Lot
(Children Stage/Space)
(Leimert Park Village
Book Festival in partnership
with the
KIDS SPACE MUSEUM)
Activities Facilitor:
Phyllis Bradley-Parker,
Museum Educator
Fun-filled arts, crafts, storytelling, interactive
games for young
children sponsored by
Kids Space Museum.
For more information
on the Kids Space Museum,
sponsor host for the
Children's Village, please visit www.kidspacemuseum.org
Ages pre-K and up.
10:00
- 6:00pm
Leimert Park Village
Certified Farmers' Market
Vision Theatre Parking Lot
(Food Court)
Operated by SEE-LA
This once a week Saturday tradition joins with the
Leimert Village Park Book Festival to feature special cooking demonstrations
and various food vendors
throughout the day.
A feast for the soul
and the senses!
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10:00 am - 6:00pm
Vision Theatre Parking Lot
(Work shop)
On-going "Book Making" Workshop with the
Los Angeles Children's Museum
(ages 5 and up)
Lucy Florence (Conversation/Discussion)
Urban Issues with
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
KAOS Network
(Writing Children BooksWorkshop)
How to Pen A Children's Book
That Won't Put You To Sleep
Where are my Air Jordan's?
Tired of Huck Finn?
Learn the pros and
cons of writing a
book for today's children.
Featuring LPVBF Participating
Children Authors & Writers.
5th Street Dicks Coffeehouse
(Grant Writing Workshop)
Grant Writing 101 -
Show Me The Money!
12 Essential Things You
Need To Know About
Writing a Grant!
Guided by Grant Guru,
Wiley J. Brown,
Brown & Associates
Zambezi
(Books/Photo/
Archival Exhibition)
In celebration of the
First Annual Leimert Park
Village Fair
Zambezi Bazaar
Upstairs Gallery
Presents
"I Speak of Freedom"
Kwame Nkruma and
the Celebration of
50 years of Ghanian Independence
1957-2007
June 30 - July 31, 2007
An Exhibition of Archival Materials, Books, Photos,
Posters and Stamps.
From the Black History
Collection of
Alden Kimbrough, Mary Kimbrough, and Jackie Ryan
12:00
- 12:30pm
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot
(Afternoon Greeting)
Drumming Call -
The Village Gathering
/BookFest Celebration
Continues....
with Host/Honorary
Co-Chairs Victoria Rowell,
Tananarive Due &
Steven Barnes
Festival Special Guest
and Honorees & Unveiling
of the Special Art Project
by Honorary
Bookfest Artist,
Synthia Saint James
Eso Won Book Store
& Vision Theatre Parking Lot
Book Signing Marathon
Los Angeles premiere African American bookstore in conjunction with the
first annual Leimert
Park Village Book
Festival 2007 presents
"In-Door/Out-Door
book signing with local, independent, emerging, and national authors,
writers and poets.
Selected Authors/Writers
scheduled to appear include:
Victoria Rowell
(The Women Who Raised Me)
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Tananarive Due
(CasaNegra; My Soul To Keep); Steven Barnes (CasaNegra);
Dr. Fripo Carr;
Dr. Scott Brown; Ron Winston;
Pam Ward; Eliott Johnson;
Karen Hudson; and Mable John.
Additional signing in the
"Vision Thearte Parking Lot"
include:
Michael Datcher
(Raising Fences);
Jervey Tervalon
(All the Trouble You Need);
Mel Donalson
(Hip Hop in American Cinema)
Fred Smith
(Down For Whatever);
and many more!
12:30-1:30pm
NAMI/Crystal Stair Bldg.,
(Self-Publishing Workshop)
Why Wait for Random House
to Call When You
Can Publish Yourself!
If you're still waiting for a publisher to call your
house then get off the
couch and find out the
nuts and bolts of self
publishing in this hands
on workshop.
Featuring Pam Ward,
(Want Some Get Some and publisher of The Supergirls Handbook on Short
Dress Press)
Peter Harris
(The Johnson Chronicles
and publisher of
Drumming Between Us)
and
Staton Harris
(From Wall Street to Breaking Down Walls, Nothing Special...Just Friends?)
12:30
- 2:00pm
The World Stage
( Poetry Workshop/Teens)
WHAT IS POETRY?
(TEEN WORKSHOP)
Condensed version/Anassi Writing Workshop & Open Mic
Guided by: Juwanza Dumisani
Zambezi
(Conversation & Discussion)
Zambezi Upstairs Gallery Conversation & Discussion
Series with Alden Kimbrough, Black History Archivist
Mr. Kimbrough talks about Zambezi's new exhibit,
"I Speak of Freedom" and discusses the importance of archiving history.
The exhibition will run through July 31, 2007.
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Author Spotlight)
Spotlight Author -
Victoria Rowell
(Author/Actress,
The Women Who Raised Me;
The Young & The Restless )
Ms. Rowell speaks on the importance of reading with
selected excerpts
from her new book.
Brief Q&A/
Book signing follows
1:30 -2:00pm
(Main stage area)
Ms. Rowell continues
book signing at
Eso Won Books - 2:30 -3:30pm
Sunny's Spot (Film)
Documentary Film Screening
POETIC LICENSE
Co-produced by The Sundance Channel and Court TV
Directed by Mario Van Peebles.
2004. 22min.Starring
Amiri Baraka.
In September 2002,
Baraka outraged some audiences when he recited his poem
"Somebody Blew Up America"
at a poetry
festival in New Jersey.
This short documentary film
explores First Amendment implications of state-sponsored
art, focusing on the former
New Jersey Poet
Laureate Amiri Baraka.
Sunny's Spot (Poetry Corner)
Poetry Spoken Word
Salon -Part I
Featuring Poets from the
Voices of Leimert Park:
The Poet Anthology
Poets coordinator:
Conney Williams
5th Street Dick's
Coffeehouse
(Film)
Documentary Film
Screening
WATTSTAX
Produced and directed by
Mel Stuart.1973. 98min.
Interspersed between songs
are interviews with actor,
Ted Lange and others who
talked about the black
experience in America.
Featured performers include Isaac Hayes,
The Emotions,
The Staple Singers,
The Barcays and many more.
This is one of Los Angeles' historical gems!
1:30
-3:00pm -
Lucy Florence Cultural Center (Film)
Documentary Film
Screening
Chisholm 72 -
Unbought & Unbossed
Produced and directed by
Shola Lynch. 2004. 77min.
(Grand Jury Prize Nominee
at the Sundance Festival)
This powerful documentary follows the career of Shirley Chisholm, the
first black woman ever to run for President
of the United States.
With archival footage and \contemporary interviews, including pieces on
Walter Conkrite, former congressman Ron Dellums, and
George Wallace, this
provocative film about
a woman who demonstrated
"the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo"
will inspire and amaze you, regardless of your
political views.
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Author Spotlight)
Spotlight Authors
Conversations with..
Tananarive Due
(CasaNegra, My Soul to Keep)
& Steven Barnes (CasaNegra)
Husband and wife authors dialogue and read from their
new book, CasaNegra
written in conjunction
with actor/producer,
Blair Underwood.
(Brief Q&A/
Book signing follows)
NAMI-Crystal Stair Bldg.,
(Family Tree Workshop)
Going Back to My Roots - Searching for My Family Tree!
This fun-filled interactive workshop utilizes the
"Internet" to trace
your family history.
(limited computer use
provided on site ages 8-up)
The World Stage
(Roundtable Conversation /Discussion)
Contemporary Creative Voices: Black Male Writers Discuss Masculinity and Hip Hop
with Michael Datcher
(Raising Fences);
Jervey Tervalon
(All the Trouble You Need);
Mel Donalson
(Hip Hop in American Cinema): and Fred Smith
(Down For Whatever).
Book signing follows.
Sunny's Spot (Film)
Documentary Film Screening
POETIC LICENSE
Co-produced by The Sundance Channel and Court TV
Directed by Mario Van Peebles. 2004. 22min.
(See 1:00pm description)
KAOS Network
4343 Leimert Blvd.,
(Children's Theatre)
Kidz@43rd Place Play
Production Presents
"The Jackal & the Leopard"
& "The Lost Spear"
5TH Street Dick's
Coffeehouse (Roundtable Conversation/Discussion)
Remembering
Wattstax ....Then & Now.
with Kamau Daaood (Poet/Writer), Bob Farrell (former Council member) and
Charles Wright
(lyrist, Express Yourself)
Sunny's Spot
(Poetry Corner)
Poetry Spoken Word Salon
-Part II
Featuring Poets from
the Voices of Leimert Park:
The Poet Anthology
Poets' Corner coordinator:
Conney Williams
4:30pm,
Theatre Room
Mystery, Murder and Mayhem:
The LA Black Confidential
Lucy Florence Coffeehouse
and Cultural Center
Panelists:
Gary Phillips and Pamela Samuels Young
3:30
- 5:00pm
Lucy Florence Cultural Center (Film)
Documentary Film Screening
Chisholm˜72 -
Unbought & Unbossed
Produced and directed by
Shola Lynch. 2004. 77min.
(See 1:30pm Description)
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Author Tribute Spotlight)
Spotlight Author
Calling Our Sistah's Name
-Special tribute to our
beloved author,
Bebe Moore Campbell
(Your Blues Ain't Like Mine,
72 Hour Hold)
Selected readings from
Ms. Campbell's literary
canon with
Hattie Winston (Becker),
Juanita Jennings
(Daddy's Little Girl ) and
Nancy Carter,
President, NAMI,
Los Angeles
(LA chapter co-founded
by Ms. Campbell)
5:00
- 5:30
Sunny's Spot
(Film)
Documentary Film Screening
POETIC LICENSE
Co-produced by
The Sundance Channel
and Court TV
Directed by
Mario Van Peebles.
2004. 22min.
(See 1pm description)
The World Stage
( Poetry Writing Workshop/Adults)
WHY POETRY? (ADULTS)
Condensed version/Anassi Writing Workshop & Open Mic
Guided by Juwanza Dumisani
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Community Author
/Poet Spotlight)
Poetry /Spoken Word
Salon - Part III
Voices from Leimert Park:
A Poetry Anthology,
edited by Shonda Buchanan
Selected poets from the book include: Kamau Daood
(The Master Wordsmith),
Peter J. Harris
and Conney Williams.
Town Hall Meeting
NAMI - Crystal Stair Bldg. (Conversation/Discussion)
RACE and MEDIA:
The Impact of African American Literature and Writing for the Urban Diaspora in the 21st Century & Beyond!
Moderator: Anthony A. Samad (50 Years After Brown:
The State of Black
Equality in America)
with Earl Ofari Hutchinson
(Latino Challenge
to Black America:
Towards a Conversation
Between African Americans
and Hispanics);
Jervey Tervalon
(All the Trouble You Need);
and Staton Harris
(From Wall Street to
Breaking Down Walls,
Nothing Special...Just Friends?)
Village BookFest Mainstage
Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Songwriters/
Storyteller Spotlight)
In Celebration of
Black Music Month
Storytelling Through Song
The Doo Wop Experience
Featuring Renaissance
Leimert Park Village's
premiere acappela male
group performs songs
from their new CD.
(CD signing follows)
Village BookFest Mainstage Vision Theatre Parking Lot (Closing)
The Literary Ancestors Call/Finale
All programs are FREE and open to the public. Neither tickets nor reservations
are required.
Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. It is recommended
that you arrive in plenty of
time to enter the Leimert Park Village and locate your program space.
All Programs Subject to Change.
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