Freeport, New York - 8th Annual Harlem Book Fair on Long Island Saturday, September 18, 2010

Freeport, New York - 8th Annual Harlem Book Fair on Long Island Saturday, September 18, 2010




The 8th Annual Harlem Book Fair on Long Island (HBF-LI) presents a great opportunity to bring African-American authors, artists, poets, performers and vendors together with the Long Island community.

The daylong event features book signing by noted authors, panel discussions, ethnic music and dance, fiction and nonfiction books, vendors, and a Children’s Pavilion with its own featured authors, storytellers and face painters.

HBF-LI will be held Saturday, September 18, 2010, 12 noon - 6 p.m. at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road, Freeport NY. For further information call (516) 379-5466 or fax (516) 908-4077 or e-mail: hbfli@optonline.net.

The Harlem Book Fair on Long Island is supported by the African Atlantic Genealogical Society, the Freeport Community Development Agency, Verizon and QBR Publications.

Official Registration site http://www.aagsinc.net/bookfair.html

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2008 Harlem Book Fair on Long Island, September 27, 2008

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 14, 2008 – African Atlantic Genealogical Society to Host Harlem Book Fair on Long Island September 27, 2008

The Harlem Book Fair on Island is set to draw several thousand book lovers to Long Island September 27, 2008. The Harlem Book Fair on Long Island attracted over 2000 participants to prior Book Fair. The African Atlantic Genealogical Society will be hosting the Harlem Book Fair on Long Island on Saturday, September 27, 2008. The book fair was established in Harlem in 1998, by Max Rodriguez, publisher of QBR the Black Book Review. It has been held annually in Harlem, New York City, since then. Other venues have been established in cities across the country (i.e.) San Diego, CA, Boston, MA; Chicago,IL; etc. Long Island became an additional venue in 2003.




Broadway Star Bernard J. Marsh Author of GREAT WHITEWAY/GREATWHITE LIES will be signing at this year's book fair.


The book fair will take place outdoors, from noon until 6:00 p.m., at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road, Freeport NY. In case of inclement weather, it will be held in the recreation center's gymnasium. Story-tellers, clowns, face-painters and a balloon-twister will entertain the children.

The 6th Annual Harlem Book Fair on Long Island (HBF-LI) presents a great opportunity to bring African-American authors, artists, poets, performers and vendors together with the Long Island community. The daylong event features book signing by noted authors, panel discussions, ethnic music and dance, fiction and nonfiction books, vendors, and a Children’s Pavilion with its own featured authors, storytellers and face painters. HBF-LI will be held Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12 noon - 6 p.m. at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road, Freeport NY. For further information call (516) 977-6993 or fax (516) 908-4077. The Harlem Book Fair on Long Island is supported by the African Atlantic Genealogical Society, the Freeport Community Development Agency and QBR The Black Book Review.

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Harlem Book Fair on Long Island September 27, 2008

The Harlem Book Fair on Long Island will be Harlem Book Fair on Long Island on Saturday, September 27, 2008, at Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520. Applications are now available by emailing aagsinc@verizon.net. Visit our blog at http://harlembookfaironlongisland.blogspot.com

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Freeport, New York - Harlem Book Fair on Long Island announces program for 2007 Harlem Book Fair

Freeport, New York - Harlem Book Fair on Long Island announces program for 2007 Harlem Book Fair. The 2007 Harlem Book Fair on Long will be presenting a series of Book Signings, Panel Discussions, Open Mike, Workshops, Vendors, Story-Tellers, Balloon Sculptor, Face Painter, and Stilt-Walkers.

The MC for this year's Harlem Book Fair on Long Island is Jerome "City" Smith.

Special Guest: Zykeya McLeod, 12-year-old author of “An Inner Child Speaks”


Panel Discussion: “The Perils of Publishing: Should You Do-It-Yourself?”

Lecture Room Presentations By

Rosalind McLymont, author of “Middle Ground”

About: ROSALIND I.S. MCLYMONT

Rosalind is editor-in-chief of The Network Journal, New York's premier magazine for Black professionals and business owners. She also is a partner in McLymont, Kunda & Co., an international trade and business development strategy firm serving clients in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and the author of the award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Middle Ground (Beckham, 2006, ISBN 0-931761-17-4). Rosalind has more than 20 years' experience as a writer, speaker and adviser to small and medium-sized companies on global business.

She was an international trade reporter and the first female and first Black managing editor at The Journal of Commerce, one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious daily business newspapers. Rosalind McLymont novel is produced and posted on a two- to three-minute video “trailer” and a five-minute video of a “dramatized reading” of her author’s work on www.totalblacktv.com

Marcia McNair author of “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”

Bea Joyner Author/Lecturer will speak on “Parenting in the 21st Century”

Saturday, September 29, 2007

12:00 noon until 6:00 p.m. A “Rain or Shine Event“ at Freeport Recreation Center130 East Merrick Road, Freeport Admission to the Book Fair is Free.

Also on Friday September 28, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a pre-book fair performance of the play, “Having Our Say: the Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years” Starring Carolyn Brown and Rosalyn Aaron, directed by Bernard J. Marsh at the Freeport Recreation Center (free admission) RSVP required for the play

For more information please call Phone: 516-632-5809 Fax: 516-908-4077

You may also email us at Email: hbfli@optonline.net URL: http://www.aagsinc.net/ Blog: http://harlembookfaironlongisland.blogspot.com/ The 2007 Harlem Book Fair on Long lsland is Hosted by the African-Atlantic Genealogical Society and QBR the Black Book Review; with the support of Verizon and Freeport Community Development Agency.