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For immediate release  September 11, 2008

 Just announced

Baltimore Book Festival welcomes Bishop T.D. Jakes

The 13^th annual Baltimore Book Festival is proud to announce that pastor and philanthropist Bishop T.D. Jakes will join Friday evening’s author schedule on September 26, 5:15pm in The Walters Art Museum at 600 N. Charles Street.  Seating will be limited to the first 400 guests.  One free ticket will be issued to each attendee on a first-come, first-served basis, starting at 3pm in the main lobby.

Throughout the weekend, the festival presents some of the nation’s most acclaimed authors including Dr. Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom by Cornel West; Naomi Wolf, Give Me Liberty; Iyanla Vanzant, Tapping the Power Within; Amy Goodman, Standing Up to the Madness; Walter Mosley, The Tempest Tales; Michael Ian Black, My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face; Linda & Loretta Sanchez, Dream In Color; and Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen.  The mid-Atlantic’s premier celebration of the literary arts takes place in historic Mount Vernon Place, located in the 600 block of North Charles Street, on Friday, September 26 from 5-9pm and Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28 from 11am-7pm.  The festival is presented by Mayor Sheila Dixon and produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.

For more than 30 years Bishop T.D. Jakes has dedicated himself to ministry and the betterment of humanity.  Born on June 9, 1957, Thomas Dexter Jakes credits his integrity and discipline to his father Ernest, an entrepreneur and businessman and mother Odith, an educator.  The West Virginia native began pasturing in 1979 with just 10 members.  Today, the celebrated visionary’s congregation, The Potter’s House, has more than 30,000 members.  The Potter’s House remains one of the fastest growing mega-churches with a multiracial, nondenominational fellowship and 50-plus active outreach ministries.   Bishop Jakes is the CEO of the nonprofit, which has produced various national conferences including Woman, Thou Art Loosed and MegaFest; established the corporation Metroplex Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) that remedies social and economic disparities; and conducted missionary work globally in Belize, northern Mexico, Republic of Guyana and Kenya.  The evangelist continues to expand his work and make his place in the literary world, film with Woman, Thou Art Loosed (Magnolia Pictures 2004) and recording industry with his label, Dexterity Sounds and Grammy nominated CD, He-Motions.  His new book is Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won’t Regret.      

 For more information about the Baltimore Book Festival, call 1-877-BALTIMORE or visit www.baltimorebookfestival.com.

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Dionne McConkey

Communications Associate

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts

7 E. Redwood Street

Suite 500

Baltimore, MD 21202

410-752-8632

dmcconkey@promotionandarts.com

www.promotionandarts.com