Yari Yari InformationOnline RegistrationProgram for Tueday October 12Program Schedule for Wednesday, October 13Program for Thursday, October 14Program for Friday, October 15Program for Saturday, October 16Workshop RegistrationTravel & Accomodation Information
9:00-10:00
WORKSHOPS
 
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Screenwriting
    Open only to registered Workshop participants; online applicatiions have closed. However you may apply at the conference provided space is available.
9:15-11:40 FILM: The Corporation
Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, dirs., Canada (2003)
Documentary, 145 min
 
10:15-12:00 GLOBALIZATION & NEW IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE
  Science fiction, surrealism, magic realism, historical fiction, and new emerging experimental expression.
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs United States
Tananarive Due United States
Jewelle Gomez United States
Sandra Jackson-Opoku United States
Jewell Parker Rhodes United States
Maria de Lourdes Teodoro Brazil
Sonia Rivera Valdes United States Cuba
 
11:00-12:30 THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
  11:00-11:20 Performance: Rhodessa Jones

11:20-12:30
Conversation with Eddie Ellis and Lashawnda Pittman
12:00-1:15 FILM: Dirt for Dinner / Dreckfresser
Branwen Okpako, dir., Germany (2000) Documentary,
German with English subtitles, 75 mins.
 
12:30 - 12:50 Performance Lebogang mashile
 
1:00-2:00 GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY
   
Ourmou Diarra Mali
Doudou Diene Senegal France
Maria Magdalen a Campos-Pon Cuba
Walter Mosely United States
2:15– 3:30 BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, AND MEMOIRES
   
Katheleen Cleaver United States
Melba Joyce Boyd United States
D.H. Melhem United States
Asha Bandele United States
Genna Rae McNeil United States
Moderator: Marie Umeh United States
 
1:30-2:30 FILM: I Was Born a Black Woman: The Story of Benedita da Silva
Maria Luisa (Maisa) Mendonca, dir., USA/Brazil (2000) Documentary, 57 mins.
2:00-3:30 LITERARY RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION & ARCHIVAL ACTIVITY
  Does your internet-research lack details? What will happen to your archives after you’re through? Copyright laws and protection of the artist.
Camille Billops United States
Carroll Johnson United States
Diana Lachatanere United States
Moderator: Peter Kargbo Sierra Leone United States
2:35-3:50 FILM: Chisholm '72 - Unbought & Unbossed
Shola Lynch, dir. USA (2004) Documentary, 75 mins.
3:00-4:30 GLOBALIZATION AND MUSIC
   
Alexa Birdsong United States
Tamara Kali United States
Chafia Pencreach Algeria France
Satima Bea Benjamin South Africa United States
Kimberly Ruffin United States
Moderator: Farah Jasmin Griffin   United States
 
3:30-4:30 CONVERSATION WITH LUCILLE CLIFTON
led by Rashidah Ishmaili
  Followed by booksigning
4:00-5:50 FILM: Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Lee Hirsch, dir. South Africa/USA (2002) Documentary, 108 mins.
 
   
6:00 RECEPTION FOR YARI YARI PAMBERI AWARDEES HOSTED BY IMAN
 
Limited tickets are available; call 212.889.4694 to purchase.
7:00 AWARDS DINNER
  Honoring: Lucille Clifton, Tananarive Due, Marcia Gillespie, Andree-Nicola McLaughlin, H.E. Barbara Masekela, Robert (Bob) Moses and the Algebra Project, Nancy Morejon, Toni Morrison, Ousmane Sembene, Robert Chrisman, Black Scholar Magazine, and Organizacao da Mulher Angolana & Hosted by Susan L. Taylor
Limited tickets are available;click here or call 212.889.4694 to purchase.
6:30-8:30 Open Mike
 
Updated 08 Oct 2004: 20:00