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Instructions: ABTF Group Rates: $129+/standard & $159+/Suites. To make your reservation, please click the online booking link below. It will take you directly to the hotel website, where the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival code is already attached.

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival (ABTF) is a gathering of the world's preeminent theatre producers, writers, artists, and art lovers to celebrate creative works for and about the Black experience. Please, donate if you care about celebrating and preserving our stories..

Experience our version of "Black Friday"! Economic viability is a crucial pillar to building community. The ABTF Black Art Expo & Market connects you with vendors that offer a unique selection of visual, fine and . wearable art.

We suggest you consider attending the ABTF and/or submitting to categories other than the Full Performance category to familiarize yourself with the process, producers, and patrons. This will give you a 360-degree view of what to expect.

She is the co-founder and executive producing director of the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival (ABTF) facilitates the nation's largest collaborative of black theatre companies and writers from around the globe to self-produce our work under one roof.

Under his leadership, the ABTF has added several programs including School Performances, The Dr. Doris Derby Monologue Competition and the ABTF College Intern program. Violet Crawford Board Member (since 2023)

The arts are essential to the health and vitality of neighborhoods as well as our nation. For instance, sitting on the ABTF’s board or permitting employee volunteer time are greats way to become a visible stakeholder in the community.

Every play that we have attended has been in line with many of the topics and events that effects our young men. We will continue to visit the ABTF every year, seeing the best of the best that they have to offer. Keep up the great work!"

PLEASE BOOK EARLY...THEY SELL OUT FAST! (The hotel has asked that you reserve your room only when you are sure of your hotel selection. Each year they reach capacity and have had to turn ABTF guests away. Thank you!) Amenities: All guest rooms are over-sized with a microwave and refrigerator.