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GREETINGS FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Friends and Supporters: Welcome to the 2012 National Black Arts Festival presented by The Coca-Cola Company. The U.S. Congress recognized the National Black Arts Festival as the “premier festival of its kind in the United States” (H. Res 1286). We remain dedicated to our mission—to engage, cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and to provide opportunities for artistic and creative expression—which sets the National Black Arts Festival apart from other festival events.

This year’s National Black Arts Festival, themed Connecting Communities, brings together diverse communities of various ages, nationalities, ethnicities and means. It is important to us for everyone to be able to participate in our annual summer Festival. To that end, we are presenting a variety of world-class programs, the majority of them free and open to the public. From July 6th through the 15th the National Black Arts Festival offers free art exhibits, community concerts, workshops, special events at senior centers, children’s programming, film screenings and more. In keeping with the Connecting Communities theme, NBAF is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Jamaica’s Independence at the National Black Arts Festival with free events including art exhibits, concerts and artist talks.

The centerpiece of the Festival is four days of free summer fun with NBAF @ Centennial Olympic Park, July 12th through the 15th! Activities at the park include the International Marketplace, with vendors and artists from around the world, offering shoppers a unique array of items to choose from. Families can learn how to prepare healthy meals with cooking demonstrations by chefs at the Publix Healthy Cooking Pavilion on Saturday and Sunday. Our highly anticipated Children’s Education Village: Destination Afrika and Beyond offers families and children a fun and extraordinary opportunity to learn about Africa through hands-on activities, a Radio Disney experience and much more! The Main Stage will feature children’s programming during the day and familyfriendly programming in the evening. There will be some special surprises at the park as well. We encourage you to bring your family and spend the weekend in the park with us.

While most of the programming is free, the Festival will feature several very special ticketed events this year.

First, is Slavery by Another Name: The Dialog, a ground-breaking panel discussion, moderated by award winning journalist Cynthia A. Tucker, which examines author Douglas A. Blackmon’s expose about forced labor of imprisoned African American men and women through the convict lease system. Second, is True Colors Theatre Company’s production of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” with a great cast featuring Phylicia Rashad of The Cosby Show. We are also honoring legendary actress Ruby Dee who will make a rare public appearance at the NBAF Gala: A Ruby Evening.

There is really something for everyone at this year’s Festival. As you review this program, you will find information on all Festival events, so plan your itinerary and take MARTA to all the Festival events.

This is an exciting time in the history of NBAF. As we stand on the threshold of our 25th anniversary in 2013, we hope you are as excited about the future of NBAF and the National Black Arts Festival as we are.

We ask you to join us as members, sponsors, volunteers and donors, and continue to support us as we present the art and culture and preserve the legacy of people of African descent. Thank you for your support and enjoy the 2012 National Black Arts Festival!

Warm Regards, Michael Simanga, PhD Executive Director, NBAF 2012 NBAF Playbill

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2012 National Black Arts Festival PRESENTED BY

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY

Festival Highlights NBAF @ CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK Presented by The Coca-Cola Company

12–15 INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE

NBAF MAIN STAGE @ CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK

Centennial Olympic Park Free and Open to the Public Over 100 artists and artisans from around the world showcase their best merchandise at the International Marketplace.

Among the artists participating in the marketplace is KALADOU KASSE, one of Senegal’s greatest artists!

Shoppers can choose from beautifully woven fabrics and clothing to skillfully handcrafted jewelry, wood carved sculptures and supple leather goods. Free and Open to the Public. July 12-15

Sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company and Xfinity Four days of unforgettable moments as live performances at the park in the heart of downtown Atlanta fill the air with music, featuring children’s programming by day (Noon till 4 pm) and family-friendly programming every evening—Friday Classic Funk and Saturday Nu Soul/ Classic Soul So come hang out with us for the entire weekend! Free and Open to the Public SATURDAY & SUNDAY STAGE LINEUP 12:00 noon - Zulu Connection 12:15 pm - Giwayen Mata 1:15 pm - Success Stars Pan Sounds 2:00 pm - Zulu Connection 2:15 pm - Youth Ensemble of Atlanta 3:15 pm - Soweto Street Beat

CHILDREN’S EDUCATION VILLAGE

Destination Afrika and Beyond Children and their families will explore Destination Afrika and Beyond at the Children’s Education Village through hands-on activities and interactive experiences. Storyteller Mama Koku will tell a story as ancient as Timbuktu. Children can see inside an Ndebele wall and meet a Zulu “warrior”. July 13, 10 am – 4 pm Camps and Groups Only, fee and pre-registration required.

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Friday Join us for a Tribute to Classic Funk and the best of Nu Soul. Come early for DJ Dynamite Dave Soul with classic sounds, A Soul Train Tribute to Don Cornelius and God Father of Go Go, Chuck Brown. Casual Cal Dupree hosts The “Crossroads of Funk” a live musical tribute featuring musicians and vocalists from Parliament, James Brown, Ohio Players, Brick and Outkast!

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Southwest Arts Center. July 9, 7 – 9 pm

Headling the evening is Nu soul starlet Leela James, adding to the live mix with her own music and a tribute the legendary Sam Cooke & Etta James; and Kindred and the Family Soul closing out the night.

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Saturday Nu Soul/Classic Soul: Pack up the family for the best of new and classic soul in the park. Get started with the move-your-body sounds one of Atlanta’s top DJs

Children’s Education Village: Destination Afrika and Beyond This year’s Children’s Education Village features five distinct destinations with a variety of hands on experiences designed for children aged 5-12. An African hands-on village (Destination Afrika); an urban ecological experience for children (Black and Green!); Partners’ Row featuring the best of Atlanta for children; and the Family Stage. Centennial Olympic Park. Friday, July 13, 10 am – 4 pm, Camps and Groups

by Reservation Only (Pre-registration is required). Family Days - Saturday, July 14, Noon – 4 pm, Sunday, July 15, Noon - 4 pm

Kemit from Spread Love. R&B crooner Noel Gourdin kicks off the live music set with his hit “The River” and more.

Atlanta-native Algebra Blessett performs music from her Billboard-charting album “Purpose.” Grammy-Award winning singer Peabo Bryson headlines the evening.

NBAF in the Community NBAF in the Community showcases local talent for children, families, seniors and other Fulton County residents. Artists include the James Patterson Sextet, Alex Lattimore, and Julie Dexter. More information is available at NBAF.org. July 5-7

Sunday Special Jazz: 4:00-6:00 - Alex Lattimore

PUBLIX HEALTHY COOKING PAVILION Sponsored by Featured chefs will offer free healthy cooking demonstrations, tastings and do-it-yourself tips. July 1415, Saturday, 12-8 pm, Sunday, 12-6 pm

Catch A Story: Kuumba in the Community Kuumba means “Creativity” in Swahili. Bring the entire family and catch your favorite storyteller in your community telling stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. Location: 20 Libraries in Atlanta/Fulton-County.

Visit NBAF.org for more information. July 14, 1 – 2 pm

NBAF JAZZ AROUND TOWN JAZZ AT EBENEZER Sponsored by November Birth Month Club in partnership with NBAF Featuring Trumpeter and Flugelhornist, Milkshake Mayfield, and Grammy-nominated Singer/Producer/Songwriter/Musician Daniel Moore. Horizon Sanctuary, Ebenezer Baptist Church. Free and Open to the Public. July 15, 7 – 9 pm

Jazz Around Town Annual FREE concerts featuring: The James Patterson Jazztet at Abernathy Arts Center, June 29, 7-9 pm Alex Lattimore at West End Performing Arts Center, July 5, 7-9 pm Mausiki Scales and Common Ground Collective at Southwest Arts Center, July 9, 7-9 pm

ANNUAL CONCERT AT SWAC This annual concert will feature Mausiki Scales and the Common Ground Collective. Free and open to the public.

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Composer

Magnet school principal

music director Music publisher

Opera company director Starts music therapy program

Manages a r&b band

Music law practice

Sings with opera

Opens recording studio

Conservatory scholarship Music business degree

Music industry major

Voice tutor for kids Choral competition, Vienna

AP music theory

Joins debate team

Makes honor band

Justin breathes music

Where will your child go and how will he get there? The Society of Mary founded Marist School more than 100 years ago to provide an education quite unlike any other. Our faculty and curriculum inspire excellence in all of our students. Beyond the classroom, we offer a comprehensive array of extra-curricular activities to pique students’ interests and uncover their hidden talents. Through it all, we instill a sense of personal responsibility, foster spiritual growth, and teach the joy of serving others.

Learn more about what Marist has to offer. Please visit marist.com or call Jim Byrne, director of admissions and financial aid at 770-936-2214. Help your child prepare for his or her future—no matter where it leads.

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Coretta Scott King Awards Book Fair Presented in partnership with the Children’s Department of the Atlanta Fulton Public Library System The annual Coretta Scott King Awards Book Fair is the only book fair in the U.S. that features the books and illustrators that have received the prestigious Coretta Scott King Book Award. This year’s book fair will feature author Walter Dean Myers, a pioneer of young adult fiction. His novels about urban teens and the challenges they face have won him both a devoted readership and dozens of book awards.

He will present a Youth Writers Workshop, 10:30 am – 12 pm and 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm. Award-winning illustrator Michele Wood will conduct a Youth Illustrators Workshop as well, 10:30 am – 12 pm and 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public and provides each child who presents a public library card a free award-winning book! Reservations are required. Please call 404 224-3464 to register. Atlanta Fulton County Public Library — Children’s Department, One Margaret Mitchell Square. July 11, 10 am – 3 pm

insurance payment, and suddenly the family is in conflict over how the money should be spent. Southwest Arts Center. July 6 – 7:30 pm Free and Open to the Public, July 11 – Special Free Screening for Students & Seniors 10 am

NBAF GALA: A GATHERING OF COLORS A Ruby Evening: A Tribute to Ruby Dee

Presenting Sponsors: The Coca Cola Company, UPS and Bank of America The Gala is the largest fundraising event presented by NBAF, and proceeds from this event fund our year-round programming including film, visual arts, summer festival and performing arts, in addition to education and public programming events. Each year the Gala is planned around a special theme. The Gala will celebrate with A Ruby Evening, with tributes to the legendary Ruby Dee. Ms. Dee will make a rare public appearance at the Gala. Guests will enjoy a Gala cocktail reception before the main event, featuring film clips from Ruby Dee’s films and other special effects. The auction will be a special feature and guests will be treated to live music from the silver screen and Broadway. The ballroom will dazzle with “ruby” décor and The St. Regis Atlanta will feature its chef-inspired menu and bespoke service. The St. Regis Atlanta. Reservations: jhanenkrat@nbaf.org or 404.730.6369. July 14, 7 pm

FILM: “A RAISIN IN THE SUN” FILM SCREENING

Hosted by Deidre McDonald, Artistic Director, BronzeLens Film Festival of Atlanta Presented in Partnership with Fulton County Arts and Culture This socially conscious drama about a struggling AfricanAmerican family is the original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning play. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) is a strong, proud woman who has raised a family in a crowded apartment on the South Side of Chicago.

Her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier) works as a chauffeur; intelligent and ambitious but impulsive and often angry, he desperately wants to get ahead in a world that offers him few opportunities. His wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) takes in laundry to help make ends meet and watches over their son. Younger daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands) is a college student who wants to become a doctor and often speaks of searching for her cultural identity. On the death of her husband, Lena becomes the beneficiary of a $10,000 life

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FIRST GLANCE: TEEN ART AWARDS SHOW

Sponsored by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. through the Turner Voices Initiative “A Red Carpet Event” The Grand Finale Presentation of our First Glance Teen Arts Competition Winners. High school student finalists will compete against one another to win the top prize in spoken word, digital/visual arts, filmmaking, music composition, and screenwriting. Who will take home the honors, ultimately being the Grand Prize Winner? Come out and see for yourself. This special red-carpet experience for teens is Free and Open to the Public, but Pre-registration is required. Ray Charles Performing Arts Center @ Morehouse College. July 15, 3:00 pm

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VISUAL ARTS HIGHLIGHTS NBAF GALLERY CRAWL

NBAF partners with local museums and galleries to present Visual Arts exhibitions and activities for both art aficionados and novices.

Tour 4 to 6 Atlanta galleries. Visit NBAF.org for more information. Free and Open to the Public. Host Galleries: City Gallery at Chastain and Hammonds House Museum.

July 8, leave host galleries at 3 pm

“RISING UP: HALE WOODRUFF’S MURALS FROM TALLADEGA COLLEGE”

TODD GRAY

The Gray Room NBAF partners with the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery to present an exhibition and performance by LA-based artist Todd Gray. Gray is known as Michael Jackson’s personal photographer, from 1979 through 1984, and for his portfolio of intimate shots of Jackson from that period. For this exhibition Gray will create a multi-media installation that functions as a memorial to Jackson’s role as international shaman of pop music culture, inspiring people to a higher level of consciousness/awareness, and to Jackson’s ritual relationships to African culture.

Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. A panel of music/culture insiders use a music industry art installation as a jumping off point to discuss ideas of conflicted racial and identity issues. The work to be focused on is Todd Gray’s portraits of Michael Jackson and his personal transformation from individual to product/icon. Panelists: Ed Garnes, Fahamu Pecou, and a surprise female expert on race and identity.

Exhibition: July 6 – August 31. Free and Open to the Public. Panel Discussion, July 11, 6:00 Reception, 6:30 Panel, followed by Q & A

NBAF partners with the High Museum of Art to present the Hale Woodruff Murals. In 1938, Alabama’s Talladega College commissioned Hale Woodruff to create a series of 6 largescale murals. High Museum of Art. For Tickets/Museum Admission visit www.high.org June 9 - September 2, 2012

NBAF is offering free public programming in conjunction with the Hale Woodruff exhibition. Visit NBAF.org for more information on NBAF’s Education and Public Programs.

NBAF CELEBRATES JAMAICA’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE

“J’ouvert: At the Devil’s Playground” Featuring the Work of Radciffe Roye NBAF Partners with City Gallery at Chastain to present Radcliffe Roye, a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits, photojournalism and stock photography.

Free and Open to the Public. City Gallery at Chastain Exhibition: June 14 – July 28

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: PAINTINGS AND ASSEMBLAGES

BY ROBERT CLAIBORNE MORRIS

Sponsored by Bank of America Inspired by Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to the World War II, Slavery by Another Name: Paintings and Assemblages by Robert Claiborne Morris showcases a collection of mixed media works created to “awaken complex emotions and promote reconciliation.” Mason Murer Fine Art. Exhibition: July 12-28, Tuesday-Friday 11 am- 5 pm, Saturday, noon – 5 pm. July 12, 6:30 pm Opening Reception & Program, Individual tickets $50, Patron Host - $500, NBAF. org or 404.730.6369

VIVIAN SCHUYLER KEY: ARTIST OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND

NBAF partners with Hammonds House to present Vivian Schuyler Key, a Harlem Renaissance artist, and the first African-American fine arts graduate of the famed Pratt Institute. Hammonds House Museum. Exhibition: June 22 – August 26, Opening Reception: July 15, 3 pm 2012 NBAF Playbill

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RISING UP Hale Woodruff’s Murals from Talladega College Through September 2

Hale Woodruff (American, 1900–1980), The Mutiny on the Amistad (detail), 1939, oil on canvas, Collection of Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama. © Talladega College. Photo: Peter Harholdt.

The scale of these murals matches the impact of their story—the rise from slavery to freedom.

TICKETS: HIGH.ORG OR 404-733-5000 MEMBERS ALWAYS FREE! 1280 PEACHTREE ST., N.E.

This exhibition is made possible with generous support from

Terra Foundation for American Art and The Friends of Hale Woodruff

The conservation of the murals is supported in part by

Promotional partner

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C. Crawford

This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art in collaboration with Talladega College.

FRIDAY JAZZ AT THE HIGH: Featuring Kevin Bales, July 20, 5 to 10 p.m.

HUMANITIES HIGHLIGHTS SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE DIALOGUE Sponsored by Bank of America

National Correspondent. He has written about or directed coverage of some of the most pivotal stories in American life, including the election of President Barack Obama, the rise of the tea party movement and the BP oil spill.

Overseeing coverage of 11 southeastern states for the Journal, he and his team of reporters were responsible for the Journal’s acclaimed coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the failed federal response after that disaster, the Journal’s

This special event takes a deep dive into the subject matter of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. This thought-provoking conversation with journalist and awardwinning author Douglas A. Blackmon, Georgia visual artist whose work was inspired by the book Robert Claiborne Morris and Producer/Director of the PBS Documentary, Sam Pollard. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor and progressive Cynthia A. Tucker will mediate the conversation.

Guests will enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeurves at the opening reception, as the documentary will be running on several screens throughout the gallery. Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta. Tickets: NBAF.org or 404.730.6369, $50 per person, $500 for Patron Host, Complimentary Valet.

July 12, 6:30 pm Reception, 7:30-8 pm Program, 8:30 Meet & Greet.

investigation into the training and preparations of the 9/11 hijackers in Florida, immigration, poverty, politics and daily reporting on more than 2,500 corporations based in the region.

DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON

Author of Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, chair of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Forum, and a contributing editor at The Washington Post. His book, a searing examination of how the enslavement of African-Americans persisted deep into the 20th century, profoundly sculpting current American life, was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Until 2011, Blackmon was the longtime chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Atlanta bureau and the paper’s Senior 2012 NBAF Playbill

As a writer and editor at large, Blackmon most recently led the Journal’s coverage of the tea party and the final hours before the BP oil spill—for which he and a team of other Journal writers were finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Those stories received a Gerald Loeb Award in June 2011.

Blackmon has written extensively over the past 25 years about the American quandary of race—exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a

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International assignments have included the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of East and West Germany, the Civil War in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, post apartheid South Africa and the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Political assignments have included the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2008, presidential campaigns of 1988, 2002, 2008, and 2012, the post presidency of Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton while governor of Arkansas in the 1980s.

The Journal’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina received a special National Headliner award in 2006. In 2000, the National Association of Black Journalists honored Blackmon for his stories revealing the secret role of J.P. Morgan & Co. during the 1960s in funneling funds to opponents of the Civil Rights Movement.

Blackmon is also a co-founder and board member of two socially and ethnically diverse charter schools serving more than 600 students, including his own two children, in grades kindergarten through eight in the inner city of Atlanta.

Prior to his work at The Wall Street Journal, Blackmon covered race and politics at the Atlanta Journal Constitution for seven years. His reporting on corruption at Atlanta City Hall in the 1990s helped lead to the conviction and imprisonment of eight city officials, including two former councilmen and the city’s chief investment officer.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Slavery by Another Name was a New York Times bestseller in both hardback and soft cover editions, and was awarded a 2009 American Book Award, the 2009 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters non-fiction book prize, a 2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Award, the NAACP Freedom Fund Outstanding Achievement Award, and many other citations. He has been honored by the state legislature of Georgia for distinguished scholarship and service to history. In 2010, he received the Grassroots Justice Award from the Georgia Justice Project.

Slavery by Another Name grew out of his 2001 article on slave labor in The Wall Street Journal. It revealed the use of forced labor by dozens of U.S. corporations and commercial interests in coal mines, timber camps, factories and farms in cities and states across the South, beginning after the Civil War and continuing until the beginning of World War II. Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times that the book is “relentless and fascinating” and “will now haunt us all.”

New York University Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Levering Lewis says the book reveals “an America holocaust that dare not speak its name, a rivetingly written, terrifying history of six decades of racial degradation in the service of white supremacy.” Bill Moyers called Slavery by Another Name “brilliant” reporting. Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer winning editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that Slavery by Another Name “illuminates … an ignominious economic system that depended on coerced labor and didn’t flinch from savagery toward fellow human beings. Blackmon’s exhaustive reportage should put an end to the oft-repeated slander that black Americans tend toward lawlessness.”

Blackmon is co-executive producer of a documentary film based on Slavery by Another Name, which is currently in production and scheduled for broadcast on PBS in the winter of 2012. Directed by distinguished filmmaker Sam Pollard, the film completed principal photography in May 2011,with more than $1.5 million in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kellogg Foundation, and corporate sponsors.

Blackmon is a much sought after lecturer on race, history and social memory. In Spring 2010, he was invited by Attorney General Eric Holder to present a lecture to senior Department of Justice of officials in Washington D.C. He also has lectured at Harvard School of Law, Yale University, the New School, Emory University, Vanderbilt School of Law, the Clinton and Lincoln presidential libraries, and many other institutions.

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Blackmon joined the Journal in October 1995 as a reporter in Atlanta. Prior to joining the Journal, Blackmon was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he covered race and politics in Atlanta. Previously, he was

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HUMANITIES HIGHLIGHTS won numerous awards, including a Peabody and three Emmy Awards.

a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat in 1986-1987, and co-owner and managing editor of the Daily Record from 1987 to 1989, both in Little Rock, Ark.

Mr. Pollard recently completed as a producer/director Slavery By Another Name a 90-minute documentary for PBS that was in competition at the Sundance Festival in 2012.

Raised in Leland, Miss., Blackmon penned his first newspaper story for the weekly Leland Progress at the age of 12. He received his degree in English from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. He lives in downtown Atlanta with his family.

ROBERT CLAIBORNE MORRIS Inspired by Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Slavery

by Another Name: Paintings and Assemblages by Robert Claiborne Morris showcases a collection of mixed media works created to “awaken complex emotions and promote reconciliation.”

SAM POLLARD is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He recently served as Producer and Supervising Editor on the Spike Lee directed HBO documentary If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, a five year follow up to the Emmy and Peabody award-winning When The Levees Broke.

His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989, for Henry Hampton’s Blackside production Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads. For one of his episodes in this series, he received an Emmy.

Eight years later, he returned to Blackside as Co-Executive Producer/Producer of Hampton’s last documentary series I’ll Make Me A World: Stories of African-American Artists and Community. For the series, Mr. Pollard received The George Peabody Award.

Working since the summer of 2008, Morris has created a body of work that addresses, reflects and responds to slavery in Savannah, as well as re-enslavement throughout the South after the Civil War. His stories retell little-known, but monumentally horrific episodes in American history.

His work has evolved in three phases, beginning with the Savannah-inspired pieces created shortly after he read a draft of Blackmon’s book. The manuscript gave Morris a new perspective about the South’s history. “Slavery was no longer in a tidy time period,” he explains. Beginning with Savannah, his home since 2002, Morris reflected on his surroundings and the city’s darker past. After receiving a favorable response to his first creations, Morris broadened his work to include examples composed of images and scenes depicted in Blackmon’s book. As a tenth-gen-

Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee’s films: Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozled. As well, Mr. Pollard and Mr. Lee co-produced a number of documentary productions for the small and big screen: Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson, a biographical sketch for HBO for which Mr. Pollard received an Emmy, Four Little Girls, a featurelength documentary about the 1963 Birmingham church bombings which was nominated for an Academy Award and When The Levees Broke, a four part documentary that 2012 NBAF Playbill

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HUMANITIES HIGHLIGHTS eration North Carolinian, the larger view forced Morris to face his own ancestral past, which included slaveholders.

His last and most recent phase places emphasis on materials from the period. From Georgia to North Carolina, Morris hunts and collects objects from junkyards and flea markets. For Morris, the essence evoked by objects from the era, such as locks, shackles, railroad spikes, and bellows, offers a means of reconciliation and transformation through a renewed understanding of our past. By repurposing the materials, Morris creates new visual images that force viewers to reconsider our collective past.

Robert Claiborne Morris, a noted writer and public relations specialist, studied art at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. and Tulane University in New Orleans.

His work is influenced by his former mentor Hal Carney (d. 1985), painter and instructor at Tulane University, and

Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), a surrealist painter who worked primarily in New York and New Orleans.

CYNTHIA A. TUCKER, a veteran newspaper journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, is a Visiting Professor of Journalism and Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Georgia. She is also a highly regarded commentator on TV and radio news shows.

Tucker was editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper for 17 years, where she led the development of opinion policy. More recently, she was that newspaper’s Washington-based political columnist. She maintains a syndicated column, which is published in dozens of newspapers around the country.

In 2007, Tucker won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

She has also received numerous other awards, including Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Black Journalists

"Let's get right to the point. Fly blew me away." -Anita Gates, The New York Times

July 25 - Aug 12, 2012

The Adventures of High

John the Conqueror Conceived and Directed

by Rob Cleveland Starring Rob Cleveland and Eric J. Little

Before there was Br’er Rabbit there was High John -A family friendly folk tale adventure!

Balzer Theater at Herren’s 84 Luckie St., Atlanta, GA 30303

FLY

The Tuskegee Airmen show us what happens when the playing field is truly level.

By Trey Ellis & Ricardo Khan Directed & Choreographed

by Patdro Harris

Jan 30 - Feb 24, 2013 TICKETS Box Office: 1.877.725.8849 Group Sales: 678.528.1497 www.theatricaloutfit.org

WORLD PREMIERE

by TODD KREILLER Based on the screenplay “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”

by WILLIAM ROSE

Directed by KENNY LEON

July 10-29, 2012 Georgia State’s Rialto Center

Featuring Tory Kittles, Phylicia Rashad, Tom Key, Andrea Frye & Afemo Omilami

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Inspired by William Rose’s screenplay, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, and the 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy; this heart-warming play brings award-winning Broadway director Kenny Leon back to Atlanta, following his hugely successful Broadway production “The Mountaintop”. Tickets are available Online at truecolorstheatre.org/guesswhoscoming or 1.877.725.8849.

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The Heroin Diaries, and a musical adaptation of the film Drumline. On Broadway, Mr. Kreidler was August Wilson’s Dramaturg on Radio Golf and Gem Of The Ocean. He coconceived and directed Mr. Wilson’s one-man show How I Learned What I Learned and collaborated with him developing the screenplay adaptation of Fences. He makes his home in Pasadena with his wife Erin Annarella.

CAST:

Elizabeth Wells Berkes (Hilary St. George) last appeared at True Colors as Kimber in Stick Fly, and she is genuinely thrilled to return. Elizabeth has performed in Atlanta with Theatrical Outfit, ART Station, Theatre in the Square, Alliance Theatre, Horizon Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre, the New American Shakespeare Tavern, and Georgia Ensemble Theatre. Regional: Jar the Floor, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Barefoot in the Park (Charlotte Repertory Theatre); Private Lives (Riverside Theatre); Hamlet (North Carolina Stage Company); Crimes of the Heart (Blowing Rock Playhouse). Watch for Elizabeth in the upcoming Will Ferrell/ Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign,” opening August 10. Other film credits include “Madea Goes to Jail,” “Major League 3: Back to the Minors.” Education: Wheaton College (Illinois); La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory/UCSD.

Kenny Leon, Director Tony nominated director and Julia Hansen Award winner Kenny Leon is an acclaimed film and theater director. He is the first African-American director to have two shows running on Broadway simultaneously with The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett; and Stick Fly, produced by Alicia Keys. In 2010, his hit Broadway production of Fences garnered 10 Tony Nominations including Best Director and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor and Best Actress. Other Broadway credits include Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean and the Tony-winning revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, the television adaptation of which garnered Kenny Leon a Best Director nomination by the DGA. The film also received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and won 3 NAACP Image Awards.

David De Vries (Monsignor Ryan) was most recently seen in A Christmas Carol (Alliance), Freud’s Last Session (Theatrical Outfit), and the Kendeda-winning play Carapace, for which he received a Suzi nomination. Prior to that, he spent many years with Wicked and Beauty and the Beast in productions touring the country. Directing credits include T.O.’s acclaimed Red. As narrator, David has over forty audiobooks to his credit, including the Caldecott Medal Winner A Sick Day for Amos McGee and John Feinstein’s sports memoir, One on One. Proud father of Willem, who plays ball of varying sizes.

Recently, Mr. Leon directed the world premiere of Marcus Gardley’s Every Tongue Confess starring Phylicia Rashad at Arena Stage in D.C. Currently, he is completing postproduction on his African American adaptation of Steel Magnolias for Lifetime and Sony Pictures.

Todd Kreidler (Playwright) wrote the musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, an original story that interweaves the lyrics of Tupac Shakur, directed by Kenny Leon, aimed for Broadway in Spring 2013. He is currently writing several projects including a musical based on Nikki Sixx’s memoir and music, 2012 NBAF Playbill

Andrea Frye (Matilda Binks) most recently appeared as Mama Nadi in Ruined at the St. Louis Black Repertory for which she won “Best Actress in a Play” from the River Front Times and was nominated in the same category by the Kevin

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THEATRE HIGHLIGHTS (Really Really – world premiere); Florida Stage (Storytelling Ability of a Boy – world premiere); North Carolina Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol). Atlanta: Alliance Theatre (August: Osage County, and world premieres of Carapace and 26 Miles); Jewish Theatre of the South (Last Schwartz - Suzi Bass award); Georgia Shakespeare (Metamorphoses, Glass Menagerie); Aurora Theatre (Storytelling Ability of a Boy); Horizon Theatre (Night Blooms – world premiere); Georgia Ensemble (Steel Magnolias); Theatre in the Square (This is Our Youth). Film/TV: Mean Girls 2, “Drop Dead Diva,” “Army Wives,” and upcoming releases Crackerjack and Flight with Denzel Washington. www.bethanylind.com.

Kline Awards. In Atlanta, she was last seen in The Ladies’ Man at Theatre in the Square, Pearl Cleage’s The Nacarema Society… at the Alliance, and Shakin’ the Mess Otta Misery at the Horizon. Other acting credits also include Intimate Apparel at the Alliance and, Oo Bla Dee, Pericles, Night of the Iguana, Stop Kiss, Seven Guitars, Romeo and Juliet, Playboy of the West Indies and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Andrea serves as an Artistic Associate for the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta.

Tom Key (Matt Drayton) has been Executive Artistic Director of Theatrical Outfit producing “Stories That Stir The Soul” since 1995. There, he starred in Red, The Young Man From Atlanta (Suzi Nominated), Blood Knot (with Kenny Leon), Big River (Suzi Winner) and adapted an acclaimed 2010 world premiere of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Alliance Theater starring roles include Art, Candide and Our Town. Key co-authored the Off Broadway musical Cotton Patch Gospel with Harry Chapin (Dramatic Publishing). 2012 film appearances include “Tiny Little Words:, Short Film by Whitestone Productions; Kenny Leon’s Lifetime remake of “Steel Magnolias” and Matt Weiner’s upcoming “You Are Here”.

Afemo Omilami (John Prentice, Sr) is proud and thankful to be working with Kenny Leon again after shooting the upcoming Lifetime movie “Steel Magnolias”. Last seen on stage with True Colors in Broke-ology, Afemo is celebrating 41 years as an actor in motion pictures, television and stage. Film and television credits include “Blood Done Signed My Name”, “Beneath the Darkness”, “Province of Night”, “Drumline”, “Hounddog”, “The Alamo”, “Forrest Gump”, “Sankofa”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Law and Order”, and “In the Heat of the Night”. Stage credits include Broadway’s Mulebone and On the Waterfront. Regional Theatre credits include: Fences, Seven Guitars, Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Radio Golf, A Raisin in the Sun, August Wilson Century Cycle at The Kennedy Center, and Oedipus at The Goodman Theatre. Mr. Omilami is the COO of HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS and has traveled to Haiti, The Philippines, South Africa, Uganda and various African countries on medical and food distribution programs. Info at 4hosea.org and hoseafeedthehungry.com.

Tess Malis Kincaid (Christina Drayton) is happy to be appearing for the first time at True Colors. Recently, Tess has been seen at the Aurora Theatre in Body of Water, and at the Alliance in Broke and August: Osage County. Last year she appeared at Georgia Shakespeare (where she is an associate artist) as Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra, and at Marin Theatre in San Francisco as Arkadina in Seagull. TV/ Film work includes: I Can Do Bad All by Myself and two episodes of “House of Payne.” Tess is a two time Suzi Bass Award recipient for August: Osage County and Good Boys and True. She is married to actor Mark Kincaid, and they have a beautiful daughter, Barbara Rose.

Phylicia Rashad (Mary Prentice) Ms. Rashad has directed Paul Stovall’s Immediate Family at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun at Ebony Repertory Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in LA, and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at Seattle Repertory Company. Broadway: August Osage County, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Cymbeline, (Lincoln Center Theatre,)August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Tony nomination), A Raisin in the Sun (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, The Wiz. Off-Broadway: The Story, Helen, Everybody’s Ruby, Blue, Bernarda Alba. Regional theater: Every Tongue Confess, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Medea. Films: Good Deeds. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Frankie and Alice, Just Wright, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Loving Jezebel, The Visit. Films for TV: Steel Magnolias, A Raisin In The Sun (NAACP Image Award, Emmy and SAG nominations) The Old Settler, Free of Eden. TV series: The Cosby Show. BFA degree from the College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

Tory Kittles (Dr. John Prentice) was born and raised in Lawtey, Florida. Kittles’ extensive film credits include: Tigerland (dir. Joel Schumacher), Phone Booth (dir.

Joel Schumacher), Against The Ropes (dir. Charles S. Dutton), Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (dir. Jim Sheridan), Next (dir.

Lee Tamahori), Stop-Loss (dir. Kimberly Peirce), Miracle at St. Anna (dir. Spike Lee). Television credits include: House, CSI: NY, CSI: Miami and Sons of Anarchy (recurring). Upcoming film and television work includes: The Sapphires (Official selection of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, dir. Wayne Blair) and Steel Magnolias (produced by Neil Meron & Craig Zadan for Lifetime television, dir. Kenny Leon). He has performed on stage in both Los Angeles and New York.

Bethany Anne Lind (Joanna Drayton) last appeared with True Colors as Emily in Our Town. Regional: Signature Theatre 2012 NBAF Playbill

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NBAF DONORS $1000+ Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. Hepburn Mr. and Mrs. Warren Albright $500 Mr. Steve Collins Ms. Pamela Stewart Ms. Deborah Stone Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Y. Stringer $250 Ms. Yvette Assem Mr. Kendall L. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bankoff Ms. Carla Byrd Ms. Leatrice Ellzy Mr. and Mrs. Willie D. Harper Jr. Mr. Onaje Henderson, Premier Art Ms. Audrey M. Johnson Ms. Tracy Murrell Mr. David Smith Ms. Susan B. Whitlock The Links, Inc. The Atlanta Chapter The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center $100+ Ms. Faye Ainsworth Mr. and Mrs. David Baird Ms. Joy C. Barnes Ms. Joyce Carlisle Dr. Felecia L. Dawson Ms. Dee Elder Ms. Gloria Elder Ms. Verna Ford Mr. James Griffin Ms. Patricia Hall Ms. Anne Heningburg Ms. Aljosie A. Knight Ms. Rowena McAllister Ms. Gloria J. Mims Mr. Louis Parkins Ms. Gloria Rudolph Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. Mark Taylor Ms. Gena D. Townsend Lamar Arts Inc.

$75 Ms. Loretta Benbow Ms. Dorothy Carter Mr. and Mrs. Felton E. Eaddy Ms. Wanda Kearney Ms. Kate S. Little Mr. Albert A. Mitchell and Mrs. Michele Ann Mitchell Ms. Angela Mitchell Ms. Sharon Munajj Ms. Aileen Wallace Ms. Pamela Wilson-Smith $50+ Ms. Linda Asbury Hall Mr. and Mrs. Ujima Barcliff Ms. Joan M. Brown Ms. Juliette Course Ms. Deloris M. Cross Ms. Mildred G. Gale Ms. Cheryl Hunley Ms. Amy Johnson Ms. Connie B. Jones Mr. Rick Martin Ms. Michelle Mosely Mrs. Sharon Robinson Ms. Doris Shannon Ms. Adrienne Smith Ms. Joan G. Sylvester Dr. Charleise T. Young $35 Ms. Janell W. Agyeman Ms. Beverly A. Barber Dr. Viola B. Blackshear Ms. Elizabeth W. Bland Mr. Leary Brenton Ms. Dianne Brooks Ms. Wendy Brown Mr. and Mrs. Randall Burkett Ms. Bettie L. Council Ms. Jane Dawkins Ms. Kristen Faust Mrs. Yvonne Fogerty Mr. Shawn L. Harvard Mrs. Regina Russell Haynes Mr. Chad Herzog Mr. Keith Hill

Ms. Toi B. James Ms. Linda Rustin Jones Ms. Vicky Jones Ms. Linda Kelley Ms. Paula Lawton Bevington Mr. James Learmonth Ms. Fatima Lockhart Ms. Dorian McDuffie Ms. Mary S. Neal Mr. Jody Parkins Ms. Nina H. Payne Mrs. Kara L. Ponder Chatman Ms. Catherine R. Roberts Mr. Otis Sallid Ms. Joanna Shaw Ms. Renae Simmons-Walker Terry Sims Ms. Victoria Smalls Ms. Lynn Stewart Ms. Gudrun Stone Ms. Barbara Tanaka Mr. and Mrs. Mark Townsell Ms. Sunshine Tucker Mr. Roderick Wade Ms. Katrina W. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Larry M. Walker Mr. Thomas K. White Jr. Mr. Dante Yarbrough $25 Ms. Deborah Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Willie Austin Ms. Eldoris C. Cameron Dr. Doris A. Derby Mr. Ted Lockhart and Ms. Lynette Ewing Mr. Akbar Imhotep Ms. Jacqueline Johnson-Brown Ms. Elizabeth M. Lewis Ms. Cecil Patterson Jr. Mr. Dennis A. Robinson Ms. Charlye Shorter Ms. Melvia Sykes Ms. Mae Threadgill Mr. Wilford Van Ness Ms. Mary Turner

Every effort has been made to include accurately the names of all NBAF donors for the 2012 fiscal year. If misspellings, omissions, or other errors have been made, please accept our apology and inform us at 404.730.0188 so that we may correct our records.

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GeorGia shakespeare’s 2012 summer Festival now throuGh auGust 5

Illyria: a Twelfth Night Musical Much Ado About Nothing The Importance of Being Earnest

Family classic series July 14 – auGust 3

The Emperor and the Nightingale

ticket on sal s now! e

…and cominG up this Fall! october 4 – 28

Macbeth

By William Shakespeare Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges In Partnership with Shakespeare’s tale of murderous ambition is reimagined and in conversation with Orson Welles’ dynamic 1936 Voodoo Macbeth. Local favorites and Broadway actors Brandon Dirden and Crystal Dickinson return to the Atlanta stage to star as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Presented by

gashakespeare.org or 404.504.1473

Credits: (left to right, top to bottom) Carolyn Cook and Brad Sherrill (Jen Hofstetter Photography); Brandon Dirden (Staff Photography); Ann Marie Gideon, Caitlin McWethy and Casey Hoekstra (Bill DeLoach Photography); Travis Smith and Eugene H. Russell IV (Bill DeLoach Photography)

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2012 NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL SPONSORS presented by The Coca-Cola Company CORPORATE SPONSORS

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

FOUNDATIONS The Coca-Cola Foundation UPS Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Fund Non Profit Finance Fund

Bank of America Foundation Target Foundation Publix Super Market Charities The Heavenly Hands Foundation

Macy’s Foundation Nissan Foundation Ray M. and Elizabeth Lee Foundation M & T Foundation

MEDIA PARTNERS

GALA SPONSORS PRESENTING SPONSORS:

PLATINUM: ING Americas; Wells Fargo GOLD: Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta; Georgia-Pacific LLC; One Flew South, A Joint Venture of Jackmont Hospitality, Inc. and Global Concessions, Inc.; Turner Classic Movies SILVER: Henry and Billye S. Aaron; AT&T; Tony Brewer and Company; Northside Hospital BRONzE: Atlanta Daily World; Rosalind and John Brewer; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Toni and Bruce Jackson; Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP; Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead; Newell Rubbermaid; Robyn & Frank Sims; Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates; Southern Company; Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.; Wilmington Trust

HOST: AGL Resources; Carter Brothers, Inc.; Caterpillar, Inc.; Columbia College Chicago; CompuCredit Corporation; Brooke and Rod Edmond; FitMed Corporate Wellness, LLC; Mr. & Mrs. Milton H. Jones, Jr.; Holly Mattingly; PNC; Simon Sign Systems PATRON: Laura and Derek Alphran; American Intercontinental University Atlanta; Judge Saundra Haynes Arrington and Judge Alford J. Dempsey; Rebecca Bily; Keisha and Derek Bottoms; Kimberly Byer-Clark & Terrence Clark; Tarsha and Dean Calloway; Michael Carswell; Tiffani and John F.Carter; Alicia Felder; Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP; Avarita L. Hanson, Esq. and William Alexander, M. D.; Chinyere Hardy; Latonda and Kevin Henderson; Edgar Hillsman; Myra J. Hughes; Moraima Ivory;

Alison and Michael Johnson; The Honorable John Lewis; Dr. Richard Long; Dr. Kaneta Lott and Thomas Cuffie; Marci and Glen McKenna; Keisha and Daniel Noel; Dawn Nuriddin; Marci Overstreet; Dr. William Pickard; The Honorable Kasim Reed; Michael Ross; Noni and Kenneth Southall; Judith and Mark Taylor; Angie and Brannigan Thompson; Teri and Lloyd Trotter; Rashida Winfrey TABLE HOSTS: Veronica and Erwin Carter; City of Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs; Evern and Elze Epps; Fulton County Arts & Culture; Sonya and Daniel Halpern; Cecilia Houston-Torrence and Leigh Torrence; Stephanie M. and H. Jerome Russell; Dr. Michael Simanga and Dr. Lita Hooper-Simanga; Monique D. Thomas

NBAF receives major financial support from The Coca-Cola Company, UPS Foundation, Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of Fulton County Arts & Culture, Comcast/Xfinity, Turner Voices, Georgia-Pacific LLC, Nonprofit Finance Fund/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Georgia Power Company, Publix Super Markets, Inc., Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Nissan Foundation, Georgia Lottery, Macy’s, Chrysler, and Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Additional support for NBAF is generously provided by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, MillerCoors, Georgia Natural Gas, Neiman Marcus, WSB-TV, CW Atlanta TV, Creative Loafing, WCLK Jazz 91.9, UPTOWN, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Target Foundation, The Heavenly Hands Foundation, TLDCO, The Barjon Group, One Flew South, A Joint Venture of Jackmont Hospitality, Inc., Global Concessions, Inc., Southern Company, ING Americas, Turner Classic Movies, The Atlanta Daily World, Black Enterprise, MARTA, Atlanta ShowGuide/ Blue Media Group, Su & Al Longman, Merry & Chris Carlos, Art Papers, Rialto Center for the Arts at GSU, and the Atlanta Tribune. NBAF receives major public support from The National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly, and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau.

TAKE

TO THE FESTIVAL

NBAF.org

proudly salutes the

2012

celebrating 24 years of dance, film, music, theatre, literary, and visual arts

Š2012 The Coca-Cola Company. All Rights Reserved.

2012 NBAF BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR: Evern Cooper Epps, Former President, UPS Foundation VICE CHAIR: John H. Eaves, Chairman, Fulton County Board of Commissioners SECRETARY: Ron W. Wilson, President, Ron Wilson and Associates TREASURER: M. Erwin Carter, CEO & President, Newbold Services, LLC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR: Monique D. Thomas, VP Southeast Commercial Banking, Bank of America

Total Dance/ Dancical Productions, Inc. presents

MOJAH Fusion Dance Festival July 23rd - July 29th Fusion Works Concert July 28th Mojah Fusion Concert July 29th featuring

Atlanta’s Total Dance Co. Afi Mojah Dance Co. Axam Dance Theatre and Guest for more infomation

404-745-9699 DancicalProductions.com

GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR: Adwoa “Adj” M. Awotwi, Attorney, Jackson Healthcare BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sonya M. Halpern Heather Vincent Holley Holly Mattingly, Global Project Director, CocaCola Freestyle Chanda Hurt Moran, Sr. VP Atlanta Business Banking, Wachovia N.A., A Wells Fargo Company Stephanie M. Russell EX-OFFICIOS Camille Russell Love, Director, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta

With this many seniors going to college, a high-five just wouldn’t cut it.

Thanks to you, over 1.4 million Georgia high school seniors have had something more to celebrate on graduation day—the chance to go to college. Every time you play the Georgia Lottery, you help fund the HOPE Scholarship Program that provides Georgia students with financial assistance at any of Georgia’s colleges, universities or technical colleges. That’s awesome! And on top of that, you’ve helped send over 1.1 million 4-year-olds to a Lottery-funded Pre-K Program and raised more than $13.6 billion for education. That’s an A+ in our book.

NBAF TEAM CURATORS, PRODUCERS AND COORDINATORS Badi Murphy, International Marketplace Producer Stephanie Scott, International Marketplace Assistant Producer Ravi Windom Moore, First Glance Coordinator

EXECUTIVE Michael Simanga, PhD, Executive Director Muriel D. Hepburn, Deputy Director Audrey M. Johnson, Executive Assistant FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Kismae Grimes, Accountant

NBAF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TEAM Jonathan Johnson, Manager of Digital Technology Roni Henderson, Videographer/Editor Tracy Murrell, Digital Traffic Coordinator Kamau Nazart, Editor/Videographer Brandon Sheats, Digital Assets Consultant Gudrun Stone, Photographer

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION CONSULTANTS Al Henderson, Integrated Office Solutions, Inc., Technology DEVELOPMENT Richard Jordan, Director of Corporate Relations Judy Hanenkrat, Director of Special Events Shay Owolabi, Development Associate

FESTIVAL MANAGEMENT Rebekah Jones, Festival Production Manager Ravi Windom Moore, Festival Operations Consultant Ken Rye, Festival Program Coordinator Stephanie Scott, Stage Manager Shawn Campbell, Logistics Coordinator Tracy Murrell, Logistics Coordinator Gina Carellas, Centennial Olympic Park Site Manager

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT Carolyn Booth, Development – Grants MARKETING Darlene Hamilton, Director of Marketing MARKETING CONSULTANTS Gregg Daugherty, Blue Media Group, NBAF Playbill Publisher Kellie Frissell, KFDP, NBAF Playbill Design Nikki Barjon, The Barjon Group, Public Relations Troy Lipscomb, TLDCO, Graphic Design and Consulting Services Sunshine Tucker, Box Office Consultant

INTERNS Karita Brown, Manhattan College, New Technologies Chreanna Byrd, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Education and Public Programs Kyle Gordon, Morehouse College, Executive Assistant and Marketing Fari Holloway, Heritage High School, Finance Bria Brady King, Spelman College, Special Events Abiose Spriggs, The College of Wooster, Artistic Programming Elizabeth Sullivan, Spelman College, Education and Public Programs Victoria Sullivan, Savannah College of Art & Design, Marketing Colby Wilson, Clayton State University, Festival Management/Production

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS Collette Hopkins, PhD, Director of Education and Public Programs Angelica Washington, Graduate Research Assistant EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS CONSULTANTS John McCall, Resource Teacher and Editor of The Compass Rose Dot Blue, Resource Teacher Cathy Hope, Media Resource Specialist Marcus Hopkins-Turner, Production Assistant Constance Riley, Resource Teacher Ayanna Swain, Professional Development Consultant Larry Banks, Art Educator Sandra Logan, Media Resource Specialist Kay Weaver, Media Resource Specialist Chreanna Byrd, Lead Education Intern Amber Burks, Assistant to the Youth Leadership Forum R. Paul Thomason, Set Designer Mama Koku, The Official Storyteller of the Children’s Education Village 2012 NBAF Playbill

NBAF LEAD VOLUNTEERS Keith Hill, Volunteer Coordinator Herald Hollingshed, Associate Volunteer Coordinator Raynetta Johnson, Lead Associate Volunteer, International Marketplace Paulette Langford, Lead Associate Volunteer, International Marketplace Jacqueline Bailey, Lead Volunteer, Administration Special thanks to the over 250 volunteers that helped make the 2012 Festival possible.

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Page after page of stunning photographs of beautiful dancers.

A great gift for the dancer or dance lover in your life.

And don’t miss “Water Dance” also.

Available online at www.richardcalmes.com

EXPERIENCE THE ARTS IN PRINT AND ONLINE!

Atlanta ShowGuide is Greater Atlanta’s Performing Arts Magazine

770-807-0234 Photo by Richard Calmes

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