Art by Elizabeth Cattlett Mora, fusion of Black Art/Black Power
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2014
1ST Floor Lantern (Kolligian Library)
8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration, Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshments
8:40 – 9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks by Gregg Camfield, Professor, UC Merced
9:10 - 10:20AM Multicultural Panel (Lakireddy Auditorium)
Belva Davis, Panel Moderator
Juan Felipe Herrera, California Poet Laureate
Genny Lim, Poet & Activist
Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus
Manuel Martin-Rodriguez, UC Merced Professor
10:30 - 11:20 AM Introduction of Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka
by Jimmy Garrett & Marvin X
11:30 – 12:45 PM Black Power and Black Arts Roundtable (Lakireddy Auditorium)
Nigel Hatton, Moderator
Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Playwright, Teacher
John Bracey, UMass Amherst
James Smethurst, UMass Amherst
Amiri Baraka, Producer, Writer, Activist
Marvin X, Playwright, Activist
12:45 – 1:45 PM Luncheon
2:00 – 2:40 PM Marvin X, Keynote Speaker
2:45 – 3:45 PM Original Gangsta Poets
Marvin X, MC
Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Al Young, Juan Felipe Herrera
Genny Lim, Judy Juanita
4:15 – 5:40 PM Northern and Central California Voices of the Black Arts Movement Installation
Merced Multicultural Arts Center
Amiri Baraka (Moderator)
S.O.S. – Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
Discussion with editors: John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner
7:15 – 10:00 PM Theatre of the Black Arts Movement
Introductions by Shipu Wong and Kim McMillon
(Excerpts from the plays of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Marvin X, Ishmael Reed, Lorraine Hansberry, Judy Juanita, and George Wolfe) Performed by Michael Lange, Adilah Barnes, and UC Merced Students
(Must have purchased ticket for this event)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014
Lantern, 1st Floor Kolligian Library
8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration, Coffee/Tea and Refreshments
9:15 – 10:15 AM Central Valley Voices of the Black Arts Movement
Nigel Hatton, Moderator
(Student Papers)
Give Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study of Neo-Black Literature byCentral Valley author Sherley Anne Williams
Marvin X, Somethin' Proper, the Autobiography of Marvin X
10:20 – 11:30 AM New Scholarship on the Black Arts and Black Power Movement(Lakireddy Auditorium)
Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Moderator)
James Smethurst, University of Mass, Amherst
Sonia Sanchez, Poet & Playwright
Marvin X, Playwright
Amiri Baraka, Playwright
Sean Malloy, Professor, UC Merced
11:40 – 12:45 AM Black Studies & the Black Arts Movement
Ishmael Reed (Moderator)
Dr. Nathan Hare
Jerry Varnado
Terry Collins
James (Jimmy) P. Garrett
Judy Juanita
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:15 –– 3:00 PM Ishmael Reed, Poet, Playwright, & Activist
Keynote Speaker
3:15 – 4:30 PM Black Panthers & The Black Arts Movement
Billy Jennings, founder, Panther Exhibit
Sean Malloy, Professor, UC Merced
Emory Douglas