A big Up South thank you...
To All who contributed to, participated in and experienced the 2008 Up South Festival. Check out clips of performances, photos and information we'll be posting about the authors and artists we featured, work with and celebrate.

A Special thanks to Kevin Harewood, treasurer of Up South, Inc. and production director of the Festival; Kevin Walters (an Up South board member) proprietor of Creole Restaurant (E. 118th St. and 3rd Ave.) and Stefanie Kelley ( memoirist and Up South's food curator); Adonijah of Prodigal Tees, Bisi Akiwowo, Marva Allen of Hue Man Bookstore, Patrik H. Bass (board member), Kojo Ade, Marie Brown, Judith Curr of Atria Books, Risasi A Dais, George Faison, Alvin Hall, Lilli Jackson, Troy Johnson, Lawrence Jordan of Amy Ruth's, Ron Kavanaugh of Mosaic Literary Journal, Montgomery, Gwendolyn Quinn, Tad Schnuggs, Kakuna Karina of Harlem School of the Arts, Lattelle Solomon (Up South webmaster) and Retha Powers at City College Publishing Certificate Program and their wonderful team of student interns. We appreciate your support in presenting great art and culture.

MALAIKA, "Eagle Nebula," BECKFORD, here performing "Ghetto names."

MALAIKA ADERO also read from her works: "Bambara to the Bone," an essay in Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, edited by Cheryll Wall and Linda Holmes, and Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, she coauthored with Lucy Hurston.

"A Journey Home," a (35 min.) a moving documentary film written by, FAITH ADIELE about her journey of self discovery by way of her mother (a Scandanavian American) and father (Nigerian) was screened.