Toni Cade Bambara Conference

WRRC Hosts 'Making Revolution Irresistible'
The Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College will be hosting the 10th Annual Toni Cade Scholar-Activism Conference on Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27, 2010 in the Camille Hanks Cosby Center.

This annual conference honors the scholar-activist legacy of Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), preiminent Black feminist writer/filmmaker/organizer and features paper presentations, workshops and performance pieces that explore dimensions of Black/African women’s livers, scholarship and social change activism. The theme for this year’s conference is “Making Revolution Irresistible”: The Tradition of Black Women and Radical Scholar-Activism.

This year’s conference will be preceded by a series of events beginning with a talk by Paula Giddings on March 17 at 4:00 p.m. in theSpelman Museum of Fine Art and a convocation featuring Pearl Cleage on Thursday, March 25 at 11:00 a.m. in the Cosby Center Auditorium.

The conference officially begins on Friday, March 26 at 6:00pm with an opening celebration that features a gallery walk through the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, “Warrior Women: The Art of Robin Holder; local African American women writers reading Toni Cade Bambara’s work; and the premier of a documentary about filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and the Digital Moving Image Salon (DMIS). The Women’s Center Archives will also publically announce the housing of Toni Cade Bambara’s papers.

On Saturday, March 27, conference registration opens at 9:30am and presentations and workshops on a range of activist issues relevant to Black/African Diasporan women’s lives will be conducted from 10am-6:00pm. This year’s conference will also feature a Social Justice Fair with information and exhibits from local, national and international social activist organizations and movements on Saturday from 10:00am – 4:00pm in the Cosby Center Lobby. For pre-registration and submission information, contact the Women’s Research and Resource Center at 404)270-5625.

Where: Women’s Research & Resource Center
Camille Hanks Cosby Academic Center
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Tel: (404) 270-5625

About the Convocation Speaker

Pearl Cleage, C'71, former Cosby Endowed Chair, is an Atlanta-based writer whose works include five novels, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day , I Wish I Had A Red Dress, Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, and her most recent novel Baby Brother’s Blues was the first pick of the new ESSENCE Book Club and an NAACP Image Awared winner for fiction in 2007; more than a dozen plays, including “Flyin' West,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” “Hospice,” and “Bourbon at the Border,”and most recently, "A Song for Coretta"; two books of essays, Mad at Miles: A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth and Deals With the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot; as well as a book of short fiction, The Brass Bed and Other Stories. She is also a performance artist, collaborating frequently with her husband, Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., under the title Live at Club Zebra! The two have performed sold out shows at both the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and The National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.