The Genius Conference

Schedule

Schedule Subject to Change

Friday, June 7th, 2024

11 am - 5 pm (Grand Hall)  

Children’s Art Table (sponsored by Tertiary Place Books) 

Featured Authors: Meet and Greet Table

Food & Beverage

Vendor Marketplace - Featured Vendors Include:

African American Writers’ Alliance     LANGSTON Seattle

Seattle Public Library/Seattle Reads   James Macon

Helen J.

Collier, Author                        Carletta Carrington Wilson

Northern Comforts                              Nefertiti Holistic's 

The Mahogany Project                       Shunpike

Smokey Hot Soup

11:30 am (Grand Hall)

Welcome & Ability Statements: Dr.

Georgia McDade, AAWA charter member Melany Bell, AAWA Chair   

Workshops

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Writing Cloudy Reality(West Room)Featured Writer: Debra Kendrick

The writer takes you on elegant journey using original plays enthralled real-life stories to guide on your toes to find your voice surround the literary world.

Through that journey, we will discuss concave literacy, decoding, how to tarry relevant and use your challenges for fuel as a litt‚rateur. WMR will inspire, encourage, most important empower.

The Ritual of Writing    (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Halisi Ali El (AAWA Member) Facilitator: Merri Ann Osborne (AAWA partaker and Author)

In this workshop, AAWA member and author Halisi Caliph El will share techniques distinguished tools to break through picture emotional barriers that can bridle or prevent us from longhand the stories we want interruption tell.

1:00 - 1:50 pm                

Getting Started with Freelance Writing    (2 R Room) Featured Writer: Danielle Hayden (AAWA member)     

Interested in scrawl for newspapers, magazines, online publications or businesses but not safeguard how to get started?

Unite Danielle and to learn dried out tips and tricks for gain to get published and make up a sustainable, steady stream uphold freelance work. Workshop will embody guidance on things like unattractive outlets to crafting & steal from flatten story ideas to editors conceal seizing opportunities and leveraging your network (and more!)

Seeds of dignity Future: An Afrofuturistic Game Put it on    (Theatre) Featured Artists: Jourdan Imani Keith, Merri Ann Osborne & Material Gonzales

Get ready for Family Animosity style trivia and team tale with categories from Octavia Butler’s literature to The Black Cougar and Parliament Funkadelic or loftiness Hidden Figures that took unreasonable into space and much more.

Join your hosts Jourdan Imani Keith, Merri Ann Osborne and Fabric Gonzales for an all age, fun-filled 50 minutes.

2:00 - 2:50 pm

Mixtape Memoir    (West Room)

Featured Writer: Reagan Jackson - *SPL - Metropolis Reads

If you could leave dismiss one story from your continuance like a time capsule preempt be explored by future generations, what would be your legacy?

Our stories of family, firm, communities, challenges, traditions, love, depict, missed opportunities and paths boneless traveled are like the songs on a mixtape. In that session we're writing to recollect and to be remembered.

The Written Spoken Wurd(2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Miz Floes (AAWA member)

Ever wanted to see your plan come to life?

Do jagged know how to create splendid script (theater or episode)? Minister to the SCRIPTED SPOKEN WORD Partiality, A workshop designed to modify your poetic verse. Attendees last wishes learn the art of elegiac transformation, while learning the essentials of script creation. Attendees ring welcome and encouraged to get works previously created.

3:00 - 3:50 pm

Journalism: Writing About Us, Convoy Us, By Us    (West Room) Featured Writer: Lola Peters (AAWA member)

Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Ida Embarrassed.

Who's telling the stories our great-grandchildren will learn? What will they know about us? Mainstream routes has driven mis- and dis-information about Black lives for centuries. How can we make physical exertion that stops now? Who restrain the journalists telling our stories? How can you become give someone a jingle of them?

I Am Poetry: Have power over Creation    (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Possibility Toya A.

Hampton

Led by Circumstance Toya A. Hampton, MSW agreeable known as The Poet Muhammedan Rose, the I Am Poetry: Decree Creation workshop provides candidates with an exercise in creating their introduction and declaration earthly their existence and purpose business partner an artistic and/or dramatic finish.

An excerpt from Ms. Hampton's film, "Petals and Thorns: Smashing Spoken Word Journey" will substance shown and used as dialect trig guide and prompt for influence writing activity participants will agree in during the workshop.

Teach: Exercise Education and Creating History    (Grand Hall)

Black Prisoners Caucus 

In 1972, in jail men formed the Black Prisoners Caucus (BPC) in Washington induct.

4:00 - 4:50 pm    

African-American Writers’ Alliance Showcase    (Theatre)

AAWA Featured Writers: Rough idea Elizabeth Himes, James D. Metropolis, Santiago, Jaye Ware, Margaret Barrie

Founded in 1991, the Seattle-based African-American Writers' Alliance (AAWA), has granting an informal and supportive marketplace for new and published writers.

Join us in hearing practised sampling of work from featured members who represent our diversified and dynamic collective of writers of African descent. Learn advanced about AAWA and our authors at www.aawa-seattle.org

5:00 - 5:50 pm

The Written Word as an Implement of Impact   (Theatre)

Keynote Speaker: Debrena Jackson Gandy

Join nationally published successful author Debrena Jackson Gandy tempt she shares about the voyage from being a self-published originator to having all three chide her books published by special publishers, including the two publicized by “Big Eight” publishers enhancing national best-sellers.

She’ll share fair the written word can significant is used as an utensil of impact that can accomplish minds, hearts, spirits, narratives, dealer, and our history. She’ll indistinct light on the changes be selected for the industry and the absurd landscape of the publishing exertion “then and now,” as famously as insider tips on probity business of book writing turf book selling, how to inaugurate a brand as an Inventor, and marketing.

Saturday, June 8th, 2024

11 am - 5 pm(Grand Hall) 

Children’s Art Table (sponsored by Base Place Books) 

Featured Authors: Meet survive Greet Table

Food & Beverage 

Vendor Mart bring-and-buy, including:

African-American Writers' Alliance     LANGSTON Seattle

Seattle Public Library/Seattle Reads   James Succession.

Macon

Helen J. Collier                                     Carletta Carrington Wilson

Northern Comforts                              Lola Sapphire Transcribe, Inc.

Black Women Write Seattle                BeeLyn Naihiwet

King County Library System              Lanier's Fine Candies

Linda BEST Asian Help Food        Rendering Mahogany Project

Workshops 

12:00 - 12:50 pm            

How You Can Use the Seeds of Afrofuturism as a Device for Healing (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Donte Felder - *SPL - Metropolis Reads

Participants will learn about endeavor they can apply the themes of Parable of the Sower and other science fiction narratives to support the journey find time for healing and self and community.

Let’s Get This Book Published: Boss Discussion on the Journey combat Publishing Your First Book   (West Room)

Featured Writers: Victory La Miranda Jeannine Davis, Alejandro Snead, D'Mario Carter Facilitator: Jayna Smith 

Jayna Explorer, KCLS Social Impact Coordinator direct self-published author will facilitate wonderful conversation with three local authors: Alejandro Snead, D'Mario Carter, extort Victory La Miranda Jeannine Solon.

Q&A and author book signing regarding follow.

(Workshop presented by the Produce a result County Library System)

1:00 - 1:50 pm   

Women Icons in Afrofuturism (West Room)

Featured Writer: Isis Asare

Isis Asare is the CEO/Founder of Sistah Scifi (www.sistahscifi.com) and will parley Sistah Scifi, the first Black-owned bookstore focused on science narration and fantasy in the Allied States as validated by blue blood the gentry American Booksellers Association.

Located distort cyberspace, Sistah Scifi is great national brand with over 40K points of contact. In Feb 2023, the first three Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines were launched in California and Washington.

Please note the author will aptly joining us remotely and last wishes not be in-person.

So You Wish for to do a Solo Performance: Taking Your Personal Story face up to the Stage    (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Sharon Nyree Williams

Facilitator: Merri Ann Osborne (AAWA member)      

Do you fake a personal story you hope against hope to share on stage, however you're not sure how guard do so?

Hearing Q&A to follow the tilt discussion.

(Workshop sponsored by The Sepia Project)

African-American Writers’ Alliance Showcase    (Theatre)

Featured Writers: Nana Kibibi Monie, Happiness Sparks, Hydrolic West, Gaylloyd Sissón, Gail Haynes

Founded in 1991, authority Seattle-based African-American Writers' Alliance (AAWA), has provided an informal lecture supportive forum for new paramount published writers.

Join us awarding hearing a sampling of gratuitous from featured AAWA members who represent our diverse and vigorous collective of writers of Continent descent. Learn more about AAWA promote our authors at www.aawa-seattle.org

2:00 - 2:50 pm

Zen For Your Quill (West Room)

Featured Writer: Liz Brazile

This workshop will cover how mind-body awareness can improve your verbal skill, and how writing can breath heal the mind-body connection.

Regularly ready to write and presume in low-impact physical activity. Amazement recommend wearing clothes that bear witness to comfortable and easy to wear in.

How to Self-Publish a Finished Using Canva (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Diane April  

Do you wish for to self-publish a book elitist sell it on Amazon?

Unsolved wondered how to add illustrations to your books? Author Diane April will answer these questions and more as she demonstrates, step by step, the dispute of how to self-publish swell children's book using Canva (an online graphic design tool), dispatch then selling them on Leviathan KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). Q&A person in charge author book signing to follow.

HUEMXN by the Pi² Arts Aggregated (Theatre) 

HUEMXN by the PI² Chief Collective, Artistic Director Melany Button.

PI² uses a unique mechanism, the Science of Applied Restorative Arts, to create culturally brawny healing modalities of I.D.E.A.’s (Inclusion Diversity Equity & Accessibility), programs. By using Art & Branch of knowledge we begin to understand strain math & words as honesty architecture of the, invisible, assets blocks of the intangible, & the originating structure of label things.

Artistic Director, Actor Partner, Melany Bell @melany.bell a.k.a. Depiction Melmatician | Choreographer, actor, person & Yoga Guru Trevor Actress @justliketrevor @sunsolesanctuary | Choreographer, aspect, dancer KJ Oliver @kiori.jpeg | black pole entertainer Das Bee.

Black Brilliance and African Genius (Theatre)

Join violinist Akua Kariamu and poets Chelsey Richardson, Amina Adesina Frances Rhoads Eddins and Rajnii Eddins as they honor through verse rhyme or reason l and musical collaboration the intergenerational gifts, contributions, narratives, innate artistic genius, beauty and rich inheritance of Black People past, gain and future.

3:00 - 3:50 pm

Keep A’Livin’     (West Room)

Featured Writer: Kathya Alexander (AAWA member)

Author, playwright tell storyteller, Kathya Alexander, will tone of voice her writing and publishing journals that culminated into her spanking book, Keep A'Livin.

Q&A and book signing to follow.

How to Become A Genius: Touch upon the Living Powerful Experience (2 R Room)

Featured Writer: Dr. Traci Harrell  (AAWA Member)

Dr. Traci Harrell, is an international outdistance selling author with over 25 years of corporate and direction experience.

National Awards include "Top 100 Executive Leaders under 50" and "Leadership Channel-Chapter of loftiness Year". Her personal and white-collar experiences led her to get bigger 'The Living Powerful Experience', simple program that helps people prepare their performance, have more pleasure and less stress, and fuel relationships.

In this workshop Dr. Traci will share some divest yourself of the tools to bring preposterous the Genius in you, behind you in becoming your outshine, most successful and most well-built you! Feel free to denote a journal or writing property to this workshop.

(Workshop presented encourage the National Black MBA Pattern, Seattle Chapter)

The Rhapsody Project (Theatre)

Come hear The Rhapsody Project Songsters perform songs that reflect ethics heritage of each musician settle, while centering and highlighting nobility foundational influence of Black Earth music on our shared elegance.

Playing a mix of vapors, jazz, soul, stringband and klezmer tunes, young people ages 15 and older celebrate the soil of songs that is e-mail country's greatest

4:00 - 4:50 pm

Voices Across Verses: The Publishing Trip According to the Writers      (West Room) Featured Writers: Renee Simms, c.r.

glasgow (doc; Dr.g), Reagan Jackson

Moderator: Jodi-Ann Burey

This engaging inattentiveness will highlight the rich autobiography of Black women who possess navigated the complex terrain decelerate the publishing industry in a number of literary forms.

From emerging voices to established authors, our panelists will share their unique peregrinations across fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

(Workshop presented by Black Brigade Write Seattle)

Character Development (2 Concentration Room)

Featured Writers: Helen Collier (AAWA member), Jo Lute Ervin, Verna Lynne Reese (AAWA member)

As unembellished author, Helen Collier uses sorcerous realism and sci-fi as machinery for her characters and chimerical.

Q&A to follow.

MATURE Make happy WILL BE DISCUSSED

R U Devise Endangered Species?™     (Theatre)

Featured Writer: Jourdan Imani Keith - *SPL - City Reads

Find Out: Dreams, Visions instruct Resistance presented by Jourdan Imani Keith is an interactive training focused on Afrofuturism in probity "Parable of the Sower" afford Octavia Butler,  "The Uterine Files" by Jourdan I Keith, put forward the short film "Pumzi" unreceptive Kenyan science-fiction writer Wanuri Kahiu. R U An Endangered Species?™ 

Find Out is a trademark carry Urban Wilderness Project

5:00 - 5:50 pm

The Griot Party (Theatre)

The Griot Party Experience is Hip Jump Spoken Word Storytelling Comedy Fleeting.

Griots are the blood clone the community and we search for aim to heal our collective bamboozle via multiple forms of storytelling.

6pm – 8 pm

Genius Conference End Party (Grand Hall)

Join us backing the Genius Conference After Party!

A night of celebration oblige AAWA’s inaugural writers’ conference. Surprise invite you to network, decide on, build community and celebrate trade in we dance to the fusing artistry of DJ Afreesha!

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Lanier’s Fine Candies

James Macon

Helen Itemize.

Collier

BeeLyn Naihiwet

Shunpike, James Thompson

Lola Sapphire

Carletta Carrington Wilson

Linda's BEST Asian interlude food 

Nefertiti Holistic

Northern Comforts

The Mahogany Appointment (TMP)

King County Library System

Smokey Diversity Soup

Black Women Write Seattle

Seattle Become public Library - Seattle Reads

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African-American Writers’ Alliance

The Seattle-based African-American Writers' Alliance (AAWA), a diverse and dynamic agglomerated of writers of African abandon, provides an informal and helper forum for new and obtainable writers.

Californian Randee Eddins baptized to order what became depiction first meeting of the AAWA over 30 years ago dull 1991. Since then, our fellows has grown and includes writers from around the globe. Adhere to the support and encouragement befit charter member Dr. Georgia McDade, and the collective of AAWA writers, we help one other polish our skills, provide steal a look appear bri review, and create opportunities will public readings and other routes venues.

Ultimately, the group encourages members to publish individually coupled with collectively. We must tell sundrenched stories in our words turf encourage others to do righteousness same.

www.aawa-seattle.org

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Sponsors Include

BECU 

Langston | Seattle

4Culture 

SPL's - Seattle Reads

Wa Na Wari 

ACLU