Arts Festival, 2009

Arts Festival M A C O N

S T A T E

C O L L E G E

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R ead i ng , W r i t i ng , P erform i ng W i th i n A mer i can S paces

With Appearances by Lillian Allen is best known for dub poetry. Allen both writes and performs this occasionally musically accompanied, often politically charged, poetry.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 5:30 p.m. — Lillian Allen, Arts Complex Theatre, Macon Campus

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:00 a.m. — Tayari Jones, Arts Complex Theatre, Macon Campus Supported by the Black History Month Committee 7:00 p.m. — Tayari Jones, Warner Robins Campus Supported by the Black History Month Committee

Novelist Tayari Jones set her first book, Leaving Atlanta, during the Atlanta Child murders and subsequently won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her second book, The Untelling, won the Lillian C. Smith Award.

Thursday, March 5, 2009 11:00 a.m. — Carmen Agra Deedy, Arts Complex Theatre, Macon Campus

Carmen Agra Deedy is an award-winning storyteller and author of numerous best-selling books for children. Her texts include Martina, The Beautiful Cockroach, The Yellow Star, The Library Dragon, and Growing Up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia.

4:00 p.m. — Lorna Goodison, Arts Complex Theatre, Macon Campus Supported by the Artists & Lecturers Committee

FREE and Open to the Public

Caribbean poet Lorna Goodison has received awards such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region (1986), and the Musgrave Gold Medal (1999) for her contributions to literature from the Institute of Jamaica.

Events sponsored by the Macon State College Artists and Lecturers Committee, the Arts Festival Committee, the Black History Month Committee, the Office of Student Life, and the Division of Humanities. Background photograph by Dr. Gerald Lucas, MSC . Photograph of Tayari Jones by Marion Et tlinger. Poster by Giles Hoover, www.gileshoover.com.