Black Pinup Girl Gift Company Noir A-Go Go Puckers Up For The 15th Annual Harlem Book Fair
Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) July 02, 2013 -- Brooklyn based Noir A-Go Go is moving uptown. The Black pinup gals and the products that feature them are set to show off their charms and their wares at the 15th Annual Harlem Book Fair on July 20.
Noir A-Go Go's owner/designer K.C. Washington is also a novelist and a member of the Harlem Writers Guild with whom she will share a table on 135th Street.
"The Guild is the oldest, continuously running Black writers guild in the U.S. perhaps the world. Established in 1950 by such luminaries as John Oliver Killens and Rose Guy, the Guild values substance over style, the importance of honoring history, and the need to highlight the African American community in a positive light, just like Noir A-Go Go," says Washington.
The book fair, like the Guild, is a New York City institution. One that celebrates art and literature past, present and future, as well as the steady revitalization of Harlem, and the beauty and glamour of the African American experience.
Though Noir A-Go Go products, which include smartphone cases, compact mirrors, greeting cards, and magnets, among other things, are conceived and created in Brooklyn, Washington says she has a special fondness for Harlem. Going so far as to include a "Harlem U.S.A." themed image among her set of New York inspired postcards.
"Our eco-friendly products are specifically geared to New York, women, and the urbane and witty, something which can certainly be said about Harlem too."
Sharing a table with such wonderful writers as Grace Edwards, author of the hugely popular Mali Anderson Mystery Series, and "Love Changes" scribe Eartha Watts Hicks, while getting to say hello to loyal customers and roll out new products is one of the highlights of Noir A-Go Go's market season. And on Saturday, July 20, between 10 am and 5:30, K.C. Washington and the pinup gals of Noir A-Go Go will bring the magic to another super fantastic, pinup fabulous book fair!
About owner and designer K.C. Washington:
K.C. launched Noir A-Go Go with the idea that something was missing within the American pinup girl genre, namely women of color. So she decided to put what she calls a sepia spin on the beloved genre and Noir A-Go Go was born. Convinced that the world is more than familiar with the image of African Americans fighting for their rights during the Civil Rights era, she wants to show another image from that time---one of glamour and wit. A Mellon Fellow and a novelist with a background in journalism and literary and historical fiction, K.C. has raised the curtain on a world of beautiful, empowered, stylish women (and a few men) and placed them on everything from magnets and tee shirts to tote bags and greeting cards, with more to come as she expands.
KC Washinton, Noir A-Go Go, http://www.noir-a-gogo.com, 718 789-0443, [email protected]
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