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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:59:07 -0800
Subject: HEADS UP TO ALL WHO KNEW AND LOVED THE WORKS OF THE LATE OCTAVIA
E. BUTLER...MEMORIAL TRIBUTES, FUNDRAISERS, SCHOLARSHIP FUND
From: Malaika Kambon <kambonrb@pacbell.net>
To: <kambonrb@pacbell.net>

26 FEBRUARY 2007

As many know, famed AFRIKAN science fiction writer OCTAVIA E. BUTLER died
tragically on 24 February 2006 after a fall at her
home in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/butler228

OSOMETIMES I SIT HERE AND I WONDER...Octavia E. Butler Passed This Way Once¹
1947 - 2006
a Tribute
by Sandra Y. GOVAN
Professor of English
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
http://www.femspec.org/editorial/Butler_Tribute.htm

For a very long time, Ms. Butler was the only ­ and the pre-eminent ­
AFRIKAN Woman science fiction writer in the world.

Her books ­ from the brilliant OWild Seed¹ to the most recent and equally
brilliant OParable of the Talents¹ - explored such topics
as class, race, intolerance, environmentalism, war, and spirituality ­ to
name but a few ­ in such a manner as to invoke evocative
thought and to raise the capacity of the science fiction genre to new
levels.

In memory of her gifts and of her Legacy, there will be a series of tributes
and fundraisers sponsored by THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY
Beginning on 28 February 2007, continuing on through 4 March 2007, and
beyond.

These events, some of which will be held in the San Francisco ­ East Bay
area, are being given to benefit the Octavia E. Butler Memorial
Scholarship Fund.

The goal is for a fully endowed scholarship fund of $100,000.00, which

* O...will enable writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing
workshops where Octavia got her start. It is meant to cement
Octavia¹s legacy by providing the same experience / opportunity that Octavia
had to future generations of new writers of color.¹

The first Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship will be awarded in 2007.

Details of the application process will be announced later this year.

Forward,

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FROM:
THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY
http://www.carlbrandon.org/tribute.html

OCTAVIA E BUTLER
HOME PAGE
http://www.sfwa.org/members/butler/

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OCTAVIA E. BUTLER MEMORIAL TRIBUTES / FUNDRAISERS


4 MARCH 2007:

Join:
* NALO HOPKINSON
* JEWELLE GOMEZ
* SUSIE BRIGHT
* JENNIFER DE GUZMAN
* GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA

for a fundraiser reading to benefit the Octavia E. Butler Memorial
Scholarship Fund.

Sunday, March 4, 5 - 7 pm

The Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA.
510-841-2082
http://www.starryploughpub.com/

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship will enable writers of color to
attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. It
is meant to cement Octavia's legacy by providing the same
experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers
of color. In addition to her stint as a student at the original Clarion
Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970, Octavia taught several times for
Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan,
giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in.

Contact Claire Light @ seelight44@yahoo.com for more information.

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3 MARCH 2007:

Tribute to Octavia E. Butler with:

* NALO HOPKINSON and friends.

Saturday,
3 March 2007, @ 6:30 PM
MARCUS GARVEY BOOKSTORE
3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way,
Oakland, California.

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1 MARCH 2007:

Tribute to Octavia E. Butler and a celebration of her work.

Thursday, March 1, at 7 PM.

JOIN:
* Nalo Hopkinson,
* Vonda N. McIntyre,
* Nisi Shawl,
* Jerry Large,
* Timeca Briggs, and
* Leslie Howle

for a tribute to Octavia's work combined with the reading and signing of
Nalo's latest novel, The New Moon's Arms.

The evening will be hosted by the Washington Center for the Book, the
Central District Forum, the Carl Brandon Society, and Elliott Bay Book
Company in the Main Library's Microsoft Auditorium,
1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, Washington.

Visit http://www.spl.org for more information about the Seattle Public
Library; see http://www.cdforum.org/ for more information about the Central
District Forum; and http://www.elliottbaybook.com/ for more information
about the Elliott Bay Book Company.

See http://nalohopkinson.blogspot.com/ for more information about Nalo
Hopkinson, whose book tour had been planned last year as a joint tour with
Octavia to celebrate Nalo's new book,
The New Moon's Arms, and the paperback edition of Octavia's last book,
Fledgling.

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28 FEBRUARY 2007:

The Martin Ridge Lecture: Octavia Butler's Legacy.

Friends' Hall, Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (near
Pasadena).

Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 pm.

The late author Octavia Butler left her readers invaluable gifts, not the
least of which were her acclaimed science fiction novels.

Sandra Govan, professor of English at the University of North Carolina in
Charlotte, will discuss Butler's life and work in a lecture titled "Gifts,
Directives, and Gothic Trips: The Legacy of Octavia Butler."

Free.

For more information about the Huntington Library, visit
http://www.huntington.org/Information/EventsCal.html; for Sandra Govan's
tribute to Octavia E. Butler, visit
http://www.femspec.org/editorial/Butler_Tribute.htm.

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