Greetings!
Thank you for visiting the Celeste Bateman & Associates website. We are a licensed booking agency specializing in Afro-centric programming. Our roster of artists is called the Nia Network. Click on the left to see our line-up of performers, writers and speakers.
In the works for October 2010 is MIND, BODY, SPIRIT: An Interactive Seminar on HEALTH, FITNESS & WELL BEING. CB&A will host this special seminar Saturday, October 9, 2010 at the Center for Law & Justice, Rutgers University in downtown Newark, NJ. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Delbert Blair. Dr. Blair is a historian, lecturer, engineer, poet, minister, researcher, educator and metaphysician. He is the founder and director of THE META CENTER in Chicago, IL. Among his areas of expertise are Holistic Health, Herbestry, Monatomic and Nano Research, Metaphysics, Hypnosis, Electronic Diseases, Magnets & Diodes and Mind Investigative Technologies. His talk is “You Are What You Eat, Drink and Think."
Other speakers include Dr. Cynthia Paige, Internist (Acupuncture); Dr. Peter C. Madden (Chiropractic;) Naturopath Dr. Carl Donaldson, Jr., (Nutrition & Fitness). There will also be on-site chair massages provided by Just 1 Touch (Orange, NJ) and massage therapist Cathy Gaines (Montclair, NJ), exhibitors and vendors and a vegan and vegetarian luncheon. Admission to MIND, BODY, SPIRIT is $50 pp and $90/couple. To obtain vendor or exhibitor space, call (973) 705-8253. Reserve your space now by clicking the "Pay Now" button to the left. Sorry no refunds.
Seventh Principle Dance & Drum Company is the perfect group for your Black History Month and other events. It's not too early to contact us regarding your Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jan. 2011), Black History Month (Feb. 2011), Black Music Month and Juneteenth (June 2010 & 2011) programs.
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka is a renowned poet, author, playwright, community activist and Nia Network artist. The Before Columbus Foundation recently announced that Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka has been selected as a winner of the 31st annual American Book Awards for 2010. The award will be presented at a ceremony and reception on Sunday, September 19th from 1-4 p.m.at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA.
Baraka, who is in demand as a speaker and performer throughout the U.S. and around the globe, will be performing in the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's poetry festival this October. Events will take place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark, and its environs.
Baraka, who is in demand as a speaker and performer throughout the U.S. and around the globe, will be performing in the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's poetry festival this October. Events will take place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark, and its environs.
Mystery Writer Joins Nia Network
We welcome the newest member of the Nia Network, renowned mystery writer Valerie Wilson Welsey. Her latest novel from the Tamara Hayle series, Of Blood and Sorrow, hit book shelves in February 2008.
The Nia Network
By God's grace,
all will be well!
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all will be well!
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