Spring Fling - Event Guide 04-2023

SpringFling Schedule

April 14th 12:00 to 4:00pm

KickOff Meetup - 7:30pm

Bill Bellamy

@ Arlington Improv -------------------------------------

April 15th 12:00 to 4:00pm

Location: The Dock Bookshop & Level 3 Event Center

STAGE 1 – THE DOCK BOOKSHOP

12:00 - Opening Welcome / Introduction of The Dock / Occasion & Overview

12:20p - Family Story Time - Aryele

Maye

12:40p - Dewayne Washington

1:00p - – “The Hustle” by Guest Speaker, Samantha Sosa w/ boe_tv

1:15p - Deon Nash

1:30p - Talent Showcase - Dre Hill, Sky; Saturday Anime Panel featuring Author Christopher Michael

1:50p - Talent Showcase - Brandi Barr, Dymond Cymone

2:00p - “House of Cotton” by Monica Brashears

2:40p - “Unwritten Insights” with Lenetra

King

3:00p - 25th Anniversary “Voices from the Block with Author Ann Fields

3:20p - Talent Showcase Brown

Goddess, Amber Frank - Natural Haircare

3:50 Closing with the Sounds of KD

Vibes

STAGE 2 – LEVEL 3 EVENT CENTER

12:30p - Welcome / Introduction of The Dock / Occasion & Overview

12:45p - Talent Showcase - Dre Hill, Sky; Amber Frank - Natural Haircare

1:15p - Lift Up Your Home with Nakeya Divine

1:25p - Beauty Talk with Author

Helen Adelye

1:45p - Motivation & Self Help with Authors Dana Minniweather & Danean Bennett

2:00p - Family Story Time -

Omowunmi Akinyoade

2:30p - One Page Business Plan with Author DeAuntra Sennet

2:40p - Realtors

3:00p - Sci-Fi & Fantasy with Author

Patricia Hopkins -------------------------------------

2023 SpringFling Books, Business, Beauty & Beyond At a Glance

Authors by Genre

Monica Brashears - Fiction

Lenetra King - Business

Amber Frank - Beauty & Haircare

Helen Adeleye - Beauty & Haircare

Kristal Jackson - Beauty & Haircare

Deon Nash -

Patricia Hopkins – Fiction – SciFi/Fantasy

Ann Fields - Fiction

Aryele Maye - Children

Omowunmi Akinyoade - Children

Danean Bennett - Self Help

Dana Minniweather - Self Help

Nakeya Divine - Self Help

Deauntra Sennet - Self Help/Business

Christopher Michael – Manga/Anime

SpringBoard Author Page

In 1996, when the Writer’s Block was founded, Black writers, members of “the block” began contributing to the legacy of written works that stamped our existence, cradled our culture, and fortified our souls. The legacy continues with the 25th anniversary edition of Voices from the Block! In this collection, you will experience poems, short stories, essays, novel starts, and more – all lovingly crafted from the hearts and minds of some of our most prolific members.

Settle in your favorite reading space. Enter our Block. Embrace the Legacy.

Danna

presents“The Twelve Properties of Purpose”which provides the elements needed to better understand how to live out your purpose, and how to serve others with your purpose. Through these twelve properties you will discover that your purpose is not a place, but rather a journey that has turns and twist. There will be those who will travel with you on the path of purpose, but who you’ll find on the journey is what matters most, and best of all, the God of Purpose will be your guide. You will pray for purpose, develop a godly desire concerning your purpose. You will spend quality quiet time with God inquiring of Him, to know the plans He has for you and for your purpose.

J.Minnieweather

The Dock Bookshop is one the largest African American owned full-service bookstore in Texas and the Southwest, which opened in 2008. Our mission is to inspire, inform, and entertain our customers through books and book-related events in a relaxing and spacious environment. The Dock also sell audiobooks, eBooks, greeting cards, music, coffee & tea, beverages, candles, novelty & gifts items, personal and home care items. In addition, The Dock is 4000 square feet with a designated area to hold book signings and other events. The Dock Bookshop is a New York Times and Dallas Morning News Best Seller reporting bookstore. We also maintain a popular Dock Best Seller and New Release Booklist. .

Dock BestSeller ~ 3 Month Review

Jan Mar derive from Online, Instore & Vendor Shows Find a Full List on TheDockBookshop.com ~ Reported Weekly

~ Non Fiction~

When Pinky Cole opened her first Slutty Vegan food truck in 2018, she was inspired by her love of vegan comfort food. Now, after having expanded to restaurants, a bar, and a philanthropic organization, Cole is ready to bring her best recipes straight to you.

Cole has heard it all before token, bougie, oreo, Blackish the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists.

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical selfhelp, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.

Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, the groundbreaking journalist unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success through her own journey…unlikely interracial marriage

Viola Davis story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me.

In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships?...

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society,

Revelatory and thoughtprovoking, this highly illustrated, highly informative interactive workbook gives readers a unique, hands-on understanding of systemic racism and how we can dismantle it.

Dock BestSellers ~ Fiction

Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her cousin's outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean the matriarch of the Turner famil

1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army.

Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions …

YOUNG ADULT

Sparks fly when Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. But these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart …

A debut picture book sharing the great and varied history of Black Americans, A through Z.

LOCAL BESTSELLER

We live in a world that's ever changing and can sometimes feel overwhelming with not knowing enough of the right things to keep us afloat…!

CHILDREN PICTURE BOOKS

"Carter G. Woodson didn't just read history. He changed it." As the father of Black History Month,…

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom

At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. Longtime tenants’ lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the dayto-day, for better or for worse.

Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have been best friends since they were small children. And as sister friends forever, they have always been there for one another, through good times and bad, no matter what.

Authentic Spiritual Autobiography, which tells the Story, Growing up in Fort Worth in the Wesley Chapel AME Church and Graduating from one of the best High Schools in Fort Worth TX.

Xavier Moon is not one to steal the show. He’s perfectly content to play…

The Vibes You Feel: What I’ve Learned about Life and Relationships through the Holy Spirit

This inspiring book for teens and young women explores what it means to listen to God’s voice, better understand the “vibes” and intuition the Spirit uses as guidance, and live a life that proclaims your heavenly truth. Filled with personal lessons from author and Grammy-nominated artist Kierra “Kiki” Sheard-Kelly and empowering scriptural promises, you’ll grow stronger in your faith as well as your God-given purpose.

Each day, we are under attack by people who want to keep us down or who doubt our gifts, as well as by spiritual forces who want to knock us off our God-given path and into the darkness. In The Vibes You Feel, Kierra “Kiki” Sheard-Kelly invites you to uncover what it means to have the Holy Spirit in your life, and how listening to the vibes we sense in certain situations can help steer us toward the future God intends.

Inside The Vibes You Feel, you’ll find:

•encouragement and support for navigating today’s world

•solid biblical truths and scriptural promises that arm you for the tough decisions and battles in your life

•Kierra’s own personal stories and experiences with difficult situations, and the spiritual nudges that helped her through

•Advice and guidance with actionable steps

In addition, The Vibes You Feel:

•is an ideal gift for birthdays, Christmas, Easter, or graduations

•helps you grow closer to God and understand the signals he sends

•is perfect for those looking for motivation and biblical guidance

Also check out Kierra Sheard-Kelly’s bestselling and inspirational book, Big, Bold, and Beautiful.

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About Lisa Cortes

Oscar Award Nominee Lisa Cortés helped to usher in the golden age of hip-hop as part of the Def Jam team before moving into film producing. Agraduate of Yale University with a degree in American Studies, she’s helped guide the careers of Vanessa Williams, Black Sheep and Brian McKnight and was eventually appointed Vice President ofA&R. In 1994, she became the first AfricanAmerican woman to be given her own label at a major record company with the creation of Loose Cannon Records. In the world of film Lisa, worked on the Oscar-nominated drama "Monster's Ball." "The Woodsman," "Shadowboxer," "Tennessee," and the most successful, "Precious," (the six-timeAcademy Award-nominated adaptation of Sapphire's novel, "Push."

90s Theme Indie Bookstore Day

Grab Your Autograph Copy of Bill Bellamy New Book!

From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir that is an intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt tour through the exclusive, elusive, and eternally iconic world of ’90s pop culture.

Bill Bellamy is Carlton Banks’s slightly cooler and comedically inclined alterego a guy who went against the grain and left a promising corporate career path to pursue comedy (much to the dismay of his family). Making the leap paid off in ways Bill never expected. In Top Billin', he looks back at his time at MTV during the ’90s, when the cable music channel was at the epicenter of pop culture. He recounts his legendary interviews with the biggest pop stars Tupac, Biggie, and Kurt Cobain making friends with Janet Jackson, and even coining the infamous term “booty call” on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. During his time at MTV, Bill broke color and class barriers, appearing four times a week on the network’s various programs, including MTV Jamz and MTV Beach House

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