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- December 12, 2009, ECBACC, Inc. participated in the National Alliance of Market Developers (NAMD) 8th Annual “Buy Black” Holiday Shopping Expo in Philadelphia, PA. ECBACC, Inc. and NAMD find common ground in supporting the talented and entrepreneurial business owners from our communities. Above, ECBACC, Inc. President Yumy Odom talks about the importance of the event.
- National Alliance of Marketing Developers / Philadelphia Chapter President, Norm Bond listens to special guest, Empowerment Experiment CEO Maggie Anderson, as she addresses the marketplace on the importance of business and community. Mrs. Anderson and her family have been featured on BET, CNN, CNBC, CBS, Fox News, and Time Magazine for committing to patron Black-Owned businesses for an entire year.
- Expo shoppers and fans eagerly converge and show support at the ECBACC table!
- ECBACC, Inc. VP Akinseye Brown and Empowerment Experiment CEO Maggie Anderson, share a moment. Our VP welcomed Mrs. Anderson to Philadelphia and commended her family’s mission.
The April 27 episode of What Are You Reading is available online at blogtalkradio. ECBACC organizers Yumy Odom and Akinseye Brown are interviewed along with Glyph Comics Awards founder Rich Watson. You can click on the play button below to listen to the episode.
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This Saturday, April 25, 2009 Join ECBACC at the Kid’s Comic Con in NY!
The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, Inc. (ECBACC, Inc.) will be recognized for our steadfast confidence and unwavering support of the Annual Kids’ Comic Con (KCC) at the Bronx Community College.
The Third Annual Kids’ Comic Con April 25, 2009 is an exciting comic convention specifically designed with kids in mind. The event is jam-packed with workshops, panels, book signings, games, contests, and portfolio reviews. “Our primary goals at the Kids’ Comic Con are to promote reading and creativity in kids’ lives,” said Alex Simmons, KCC founder. “Now more than ever, it is imperative that we supply kids with a continuous flow of positive ideas, skills, and outlets for their thinking, as well as self-esteem building activities, like creating from their own imaginations.” ECBACC will have a table there selling toys, comic books, and other items.
We hope to see you there! www.kidscomiccon.com
ECBACC, Inc.’s 8th annual convention will occur May 15 & 16, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA. www.ecbacc.com
As a last chance opportunity, we will also be accepting ECBACC table registrations purchased at our table at Kids Comic Con. The late registration pricing still applies.
ECBACC S.T.A.R.S. Education Director Akinseye Brown, a professional illustrator and author of HTD: How to Draw Afrakan Superheroes, offered two short workshops for all ages at the recent Superhero Day at Penn Museum.
Participants learned about the important parts of a story and the use of dialogue in an interactive program that emphasized creative thinking and self-expression.
The Philly Word Live!! show featuring ECBACC organizers Yumy Odom and Akinseye Brown is up on their website. Just go to the embedded audio player and select the March 25 item to hear the full show, including our interview.
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Tune in online to Philly Word Live!! on Wednesday, March 25, and Wednesday, May 13, as we talk about the upcoming convention.
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WOW! Superhero Day at Penn Museum
Sunday March 22, 2009
Philadelphia, PA 2009—ZAP! ZOOM! POW! Superheroes, super villains, and their sidekicks have enjoyed an honored place in American comics and movies—as they have in cultures around the world. Watch out on Sunday, March 22, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., as superheroes, traveling through time and across continents, invade the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on the Penn campus in an afternoon of super antics, super games—and super fun!
Members of the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC)—planning their own comic extravaganza in Philadelphia in May—join the afternoon, with superhero-style storytelling. ECBACC, now in its eighth year, promotes literacy and creativity in youth through comic book writing and drawing workshops. Education Director Akinseye Brown, a professional illustrator and author of HTD: How to Draw Afrakan Superheroes, offers two short workshops for all ages at 1:15 and 2:45 p.m. Participants learn about the important parts of a story and the use of dialogue in an interactive program that emphasizes creative thinking and self-expression.
It’s WOW! Superhero Day, free with Museum admission donation, featuring activities for all ages: heroic talks and programs, comic book drawing workshops, superhero-style storytelling, a heroic scavenger hunt and heroic gallery tours, a balloon maker, a superhero marketplace with games and comics, Superhero Twister, comic hero mask making, and opportunities to learn and play popular superhero games. All superheroes and super villains who attend in costume receive discount admission ($2 off adult; $1 off children and senior citizens)—and the chance to win super prizes throughout the afternoon!
WOW! Superhero Day at the Penn Museum is a featured event of a year-long celebration, POW: Comics, Animation, and Graphic Novels, running fall 2008 through spring 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Superheroes are the focus of three short programs. Peter Struck, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, looks back in time at “Ancient Heroes and Superheroes” at 1:15 p.m. “Costumed Culture Warriors” is the title of a short program featuring movie clips by Andrew J. Douglas, Ph.D., Director of Education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, at 2:00 p.m. “The Physics of Superheroes, or Why Can’t We All Ignore the Laws of Nature?” an interactive program by Bill Berner, Penn Physics Demonstration Laboratory Coordinator, takes a scientific view of the possible and impossible feats performed by a range of well-known superheroes at 3:00 p.m.
With galleries of cultural material from ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean world, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, the Penn Museum is already home to a host of ancient superheroes and super villains. In the ancient Greek gallery, Hercules forever fights the Nemean lion on a 2,000-year-old painted vessel. A giant-sized stone head of Ramesses II, a pharaoh dressed like Osiris, god of the underworld, stares regally at all who visit the Egyptian gallery. In the Mesoamerican gallery, a monkey on an alabaster pot is a reminder of the tales of the ancient Maya Hero Twins. Raven, a “trickster” who frequently engages in activities that mere humans cannot, or should not, do is a major presence in Tlingit culture, and throughout the Museum’s Alaska Native Peoples exhibition. These heroic figures, and more, are the subjects of a Heroic Scavenger hunt, and can also be seen during a Heroic cross-cultural gallery tour.
Visitors interested in exploring their own human strengths and limitations—as well as considering how humans of the future may one day evolve—can tour Penn Museum’s special exhibition Surviving: The Body of Evidence, or take a super-focused tour with exhibition curator Janet Monge, exploring “Mutant Genes and Evolution,” at 2:45 p.m. Flexibility is one of the distinctly human traits noted in Surviving, and the afternoon provides an opportunity to match flexibility and endurance with others, at an ongoing game of Superhero Twister.
Inspired by the Penn Museum’s heroic collection, everyone can create their own superheroes at a craft table featuring superhero mask making, or at least learn to draw them, at two comic book drawing workshops, 2:00 and 3:30 p.m., offered by Penn Fine Arts student Siede Coleman.
Iron Man, Batman, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and even a character from the new movie, Watchmen, are created with balloons by entertainer Joshua Steinhouse in front of the Museum Shop from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
New gaming store Redcap’s Corner, in West Philadelphia, and Showcase Comics of Bryn Mawr, join in the day’s activities, with a marketplace of games and comics to browse and purchase. Redcap’s offers opportunities to learn and play three popular games based on heroes and villains—the strategy card games Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, as well as, Heroscape, a 3-D game featuring, according to its manufacturers, “heroes and warriors from all worlds and times” gathering for “the battle of all time.”
Visitors to WOW! Superhero Day may see a few likely, and unlikely, superheroes wandering the Museum—and visitors dressed for the occasion should be on the lookout for Supermom, ready to hand out prizes for super costumes, throughout the afternoon.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is dedicated to the study and understanding of human history and diversity. Founded in 1887, the Museum has sent more than 400 archaeological and anthropological expeditions to all the inhabited continents of the world. With an active exhibition schedule and educational programming for children and adults, the Museum offers the public an opportunity to share in the ongoing discovery of humankind’s collective heritage.
Penn Museum is located at 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays. Museum admission donation is $10 adults; $7 senior citizens; $6 students with ID and children 6-17; free to Museum members, children under 6, and University of Pennsylvania staff, students, and faculty with a PENNcard. For general information call (215) 898-4000, or visit the Museum’s website at museum.upenn.edu.
December 18th (Thursday), Philadelphia — Novelist and comic book author Alex Simmons was a guest speaker for a wonderful group of young readers called Power Partners, during their Annual Holiday Party. He signed copies of his new Archie & Friends mini series, THE CARTOON LIFE OF CHUCK CLAYTON. The books were made available for the children, thanks to the ECBACC, Inc. STARS program and Archie Comics.
Author Alex Simmons and Brintha Vasagar, Miss Philadelphia 2008, take time out from the Power Parters event to pose for the cameras.
ECBACC, Inc. S.T.A.R.S. program thanks
PA. State Senator Shirley M. Kitchen, Alex Simmons and Archie Comics.
Just days before Christmas, State Sen. Shirley Kitchen carried out her annual tradition of handing out toys, hats, scarves, and other gifts to hundreds of local children at the Olde Kensington Lehigh Senior Center, 1701 W. Lehigh Avenue.
“I always look forward to seeing the joy in the children’s faces when they receive a new toy or a warm pair of gloves,” said Kitchen, who has been organizing this annual event for 12 years. “Every child deserves to have a Merry Christmas, so this toy event is one way that needy children have a gift to open this holiday season.”
Senator Kitchen personally purchased items for the children.
Alex Simmons, writer for Archie Comics, handed out and signed free copies of the Archie comic: The Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton. Chuck Clayton takes center stage in this special storyline when he is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids. Simmons, the author of this multi-part epic, is a children’s art advocate and organizer of the “Kids’ Comics” convention.
His appearance was sponsored by the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention STARS (Storytelling That Advances Reading Skills) program, which conducts comic book workshops to encourage literacy and creativity in youth.
WE THANK ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD
FOR STOPPING BY OUR BOOTH AND SUPPORTING US.
ECBACC had a great time at the 12th Annual African American Cultural Festival in Baltimore County, MD, on Saturday, September 20, 2008.
The Baltimore County African American Cultural Festival is a unique event focusing on community and families. Among its highlights is the Historic Settlements Exhibit. This exhibit chronicles the lives of the descendants of Baltimore County’s African American residents.
For more info on this great festival go to http://www.aaculturalfestival.com/index.html
We were able to meet and talk to one of the members of the Buffalo Soldiers Baltimore, MD Chapter whose main goal is to perpetuate the memory of comrades who have passed on…and the history, contributions, and many accomplishments of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments in the defense of our country.
For more information about them go to http://members.aol.com/baltbufsol/index.html
