National Black Arts Festival

July 20, 2008, 6PM

Creatively Speaking with Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize winning short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist, Alice Walker joins playwright Pearl Cleage for a very special Creatively Speaking. Ms. Cleage will explore Walker's work and examine a creative vision rooted in the economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Many of Alice Walker's writings focus on multidimensional kinships among women and embraces the redemptive power of social and political revolution. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983.