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Highlights for Adults
Amiri Baraka | Transbluesency
Saturday, April 18, Independence Foundation Poetry Corner
Poet, playwright, and political activist, Amiri Baraka is the recipient of Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama. His controversial poem, "Somebody Blew Up America," led the governor of New Jersey to call for Baraka's resignation as the state's Poet Laureate. Transbluesency collects many of Baraka's poems into a single volume, combining "the personal and political in highly charged ways" (Publishers Weekly).
Fun for the Family
Nation Beat
Sunday, April 19, Target Children's Stage
National Public Radio's All Things Considered music writer Banning Eyre calls Nation Beat "the most original and alluring fusion group I have heard in years." A unique combination of thunderous Brazilian beats and backwoods Appalachian bluegrass twang, Nation Beat draws a diverse crowd to their dynamic, Carnival-style stage shows. The New Jersey Star-Ledger named Nation Beat's latest release Legends of the Preacher the #1 world music album of the year.
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Mon, March 30, 2009
Good afternoon Sara,
I wanted to know what time the festivities began...
Marissa - Philadelphia
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Mon, March 30, 2009
I would love to promote my self-published novel titled "Voices Inside My Head" (the cry of an urban mom). It's a book of poetry. How do I enter?
Testimone' - Example: Philadelphia
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Tue, March 31, 2009
What a marvelous effort has gone into this wonderful weekend. What fun we will all have at the festival together!
Please stop by my booth, say hello and tell me about yourself.
Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S.,CGP
author of When Every Day Matters: A Mother's Memoir on Love, Loss and Life
Simple Abundance Press, Oct. 1, 08
Foreign Rights St. Paul's and Better Yourself Books, Mumbai, India
Mary Jane Hurley Brant - Bryn Mawr, PA
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Thu, April 02, 2009
Two-for-one answers:
Festival hours are 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days!
All of our exhibitor booths are sold-out for the 2009 festival. We will send out notices to interested parties about the 2010 festival once dates are set. You can send your contact information to authorevents@freelibrary.org.
Sara Goddard - Example: Philadelphia
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On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest! );)
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