Vancouver Society of Storytelling Celebrates Black History Month at Vancouver Community CentresJanuary 29, 2007 (No. 10) - The Vancouver Park Board, in partnership with the Vancouver Society of Storytelling, celebrates Black History Month with a series of free storytelling sessions at community centres across the city. Performances are suitable for all audiences! Michael D. McCarty - Multi-Cultural Folk TalesMichael is a multicultural teller of African, African-American and international folk tales, historical tales, stories of science and of the spiritual. His style is energetic and enthusiastic, and his stories inform, educate, inspire and amuse.
Joujou Turenne - Stories of love, peace, friendship, liberty, dignity, exileSome people shape clay, Joujou shapes words. She is inspired by her African filiations, her Caribbean relations, the thousand textures of Quebec where she has settled, and the four corners of the world she has crossed.
Jacky Essombe - Songs and dancingJacky is a professional dancer from Cameroon, West Africa, who now makes her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has toured in Canada, the United States and Europe with major recording artists and brings songs and dances to her storytelling performances.
Comfort Adesuwa Ero - Stories from NigeriaComfort grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of a chief, and has learned and told folktales and songs ever since she learned to talk. She studied languages and drama and became a teacher at a time when it was very unpopular in Africa to send girls to school.
Jean Pierre Makosso - African TalesJean Pierre is an internationally renowned actor, storyteller and dancer from Pointe Noire, Congo Brazzaville in Central Africa. Jean Pierre has also performed at more than 1,000 schools worldwide as storyteller and dancer.
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