A Night with Dr. Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes at Madam Walker Theater

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• Saturday, Sep 9, 2023  7pm

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Join the Ray Bradbury Center with the Center for Africana Studies and Culture at Madam Walker Theatre for a night with Dr. Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes

Since its founding in 2007, the Ray Bradbury Center has regularly hosted public programs and lectures on Ray Bradbury and other influential people in American literature. Visiting authors such as Sarah Layden, T.J. Martinson, Dan Chaon, Kevin Brockmeir, Kathryn H. Ross, and Maurice Broaddus have shared their work with the Indianapolis community and beyond.

This year, we are thrilled to announce in partnership with the Center for Africana Studies and Culture and the Madam Walker Legacy Center- A Night with Dr. Charles Johnsons and Steven Barnes. This event will be held at Madam Walker Theater on September 9, at 7 pm as a part of Festival 451indy. Doors open at 6:15 pm.

Dr. Charles Johnson, University of Washington (Seattle) professor emeritus and the author of 27 books, is a novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary scholar, short-story writer, cartoonist and illustrator, an author of children’s literature, and a screen-and-teleplay writer. A MacArthur fellow, Johnson has received a 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, a 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage, a 1985 Writers Guild award for his PBS teleplay “Booker,” the 2016 W.E.B. Du Bois Award at the National Black Writers Conference, and many other awards.

Dr. Johnson’s most recent publications are The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling; his fourth short story collection, Night Hawks; GRAND: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life; the graphic novel The Eightfold Path, co-written with Steven Barnes and illustrated by Bryan Moss; and All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson.

Steven Barnes is the NY Times bestselling author of over thirty novels of science fiction, horror, and suspense. The Image, Endeavor and Cable-Ace Award winning author also writes for television, including The Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda and an Emmy Award winning episode of The Outer Limits.

He also has taught at UCLA, Seattle University, and lectured at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. With his wife, British Fantasy Award winning author Tananarive Due, he has created online courses in Afrofuturism, Black Horror, and Screenwriting.

This event is a part of Festival 451indy—a celebration of the humanities—a campaign that will encourage lifelong learning through a variety of public programs, collaborative workshops, performances, and other events throughout Indianapolis.