BLACK HISTORY
(See Also SOCIAL STUDIES-FAMOUS PEOPLE, SOCIAL STUDIES-HISTORICAL CHARACTERS, AMERICAN HISTORY, OCCUPATIONS; LANGUAGE ARTS - FOLK TALES)
DANCE/MUSIC || STORYTELLING
DANCE/MUSIC
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ART OF BLACK MUSIC & DANCE, INC. |
De Ama Battle, Director
32 Cameron Avenue
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 666-1859
E Mail: deamabattle@yahoo.com
Website: www.abdm.net
ABDM's 30 year history continues to support its mission to preserve African-rooted heritage through instruction and performance, and to
bring to the classroom the diverse cultures of the African Diaspora. The dynamic ensemble of professional educators and performing artists deliver
works from a rich repertoire to audiences of all ages. ABDM's success is its artistic and educational flexibility, its high powered performances and its
unique audience participation. ABDM's Founder/Director De Ama Battle has studied, taught and/or performed throughout West Africa,
New England, Jamaica, and Brazil.
Program Titles: Our African Heritage
Fee: $600 - $900
Special Requirements: 30 minute set-up required
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| ABIGAIL
"IFATOLA" JEFFERSON |
P.O. Box 176
Peacedale, RI 02883
(401) 932-6565 or (401) 783-4982
EMail: abijef@cox.net
Website: www.abigailjefferson.com
Abigail "Ifatola" Jefferson, storyteller, dancer and arts educator, performs and conducts workshops nationally. Through a unique blend of story, dance, song, and rhythm, Abigail brings to life traditional stories from around the globe. Her performance presentations are highly interactive, educational and fun-filled. Audiences of all ages have described her performances and workshops as inspiring, informative, and energizing.
Abigail has conducted workshops and performed in schools, churches, prisons, shelters, theatres, festivals and libraries. She is a graduate of Howard University with a B.F.A. in theatre, and holds a M.Ed. from Lesley University. Currently, Abigail is an adjunct professor for Lesley University's Creative Arts and Learning Program, and the co-director of Celebration of Culture, a program designed to increase students' and educators' appreciation of diversity. She has traveled to Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, and Cuba to study cultural traditions.
Program Title: Dance, Drum, Story or Celebration of Culture
Audience Limit: 200
Fee: $500 plus travel
Funding Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, local councils.
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Kay Dunlap
24 Prospect Street
Sherborn, MA 01770
(508) 655-1556
E Mail: circleofsong@revels.org
Web site: www.revels.org
Circle of Song is the touring ensemble of Revels, Inc. An ensemble of 12 presents costumed, staged performances including traditional music, drama and dance.
An American Journey (Immigration, grades 3-8)
A sea voyage where families from Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe share their stories, songs and dances.
A Celebration of the Sea (New England history, whaling, grades 3-8)
From New Bedford, sailors pack their trunks and depart on a whaling voyage.
There's a Meeting Here Tonight! (Abolition, Suffrage, Civil War, grades 6-10)
The Hutchinson Family was one of America's best-know troupes of traveling singers. The great showman, P. T. Barnum, is the narrator.
Program Titles: An American Journey, A Celebration of the Sea, There's a Meeting Here Tonight!
Audience Limit: 200/assembly
Fee: $800 for one 40 minute program; $1,200 for two back to back.
Possible Funding: New England Touring Program (New England Foundation for the Arts)
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STORYTELLING
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JO MAICHACK MINSTREL/STORYTELLER |
Maichack Arts
93 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
(413) 532-3667
Fax (413) 538-6023
E Mail: EmJay7@aol.com
Website: www.maryjomaichack.com/
Mary Jo is a seasoned, national award-winning, dynamic storyteller, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and just plain entertaining performer who presents interactive variety shows for children and families. Participate in world folktales, sing, dance, laugh, listen to the fiddle, act in costumed story theater - all in one show! Since 1989, Mary Jo has performed more than 3,000 shows in libraries and schools, on PBS, featured at regional festivals: Three Apples Storytelling Festival (twice); CT Storytelling Festival; LAUGHS Fest (Virginia), Sharing the Fire conference workshop presenter, League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, (L.A.N.E.S.) M.I.T., Boston, 2002-2005; Mark Twain Festival, Hartford, Conn.; Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, Maine, 1992 and 1994; Norman Rockwell Museum since 1998, Schoodic Arts Festival, Northeast Harbor, Maine; and from San Francisco’s Chinatown to Scuola Gozzi in Venice, Italy. “A Great performer,” says Peg O’Sullivan, Director of the CT Storytelling Fest. Her multilingual show, “Everybody Says Hello” was nominated for a Mass. Cultural Council Gold Project Award for innovation and community building. Her audio tape, "Books Are Celebrations: Stories, Songs & Fiddling to Energize Young Readers" won a 1999 NAPPA Gold Award. New CDs include “Howlarious Halloween: Ghost Stories, Songs & Jokes from the Crypt,” and “Missing the Muffin Man,” a short story of historical fiction set in Dickens’s London.
"A consummate artist, at ease with audiences of all ages and sizes." Northampton Center for the Arts
Program Titles: Books Are Celebrations—the funniest reading show ever; Everybody Says Hello—Multilingual Fun in Story & Song; The People Could Fly/African-American Folktales and Music; Clever Maidens: Women's History in Folklore and Myth; Greek Myths—ALIVE!, Native American Tales; Skunk Grease & Turpentine (Hilarious Tall Tales & Tunes of American Pioneers); The Minstrel's Revels: A Medieval Romp; Or Would You Rather Be A Fish? Folklore & Songs of the Sea); Howlarious Halloween/Ghost Stories & Songs; Sun, Moon, Stars!; All Together Now/Stories & Songs to Celebrate Diversity; Round the World in Tales & Tunes multicultural show; The Lake of the Croaking Frogs and Other Tales & Tunes of Nature; Preschoolers’ Palooza!; Stinkbug Bugaloo: Stories & Songs of Insects; Meowls & Growls: Animal Tales; After-school programs incorporating performance with teaching kids storytelling skills; Workshops, in-service programs and residencies in storytelling for adults and children; “Oh, Behave! Family Audience Management Essentials for Event Hosts.”
Audience Limit: prefer audiences of 200 and under but will discuss any
Fee: $395 + travel (depends on distance)and up; strong block booking discounts
Funding Source: Massachusetts Cultural Council, local councils, CT Humanities Council, other
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Ellen Weiner
Professional Artists Management
2411 Bay Road
Sharon, MA 02067
(617) 784-6394
Fax: (781) 784-5393
E Mail: elweiner@att.net
Website: www.elweiner.com
A respected and sought-after storyteller, Sumner's message is Yes!
You can be anything you want to be. Appreciating differences and
self-esteem are two topics close to his heart and ones that are
frequently requested. In addition, he has in his repertoire many
stories from folk literature as well as the African-American experience.
His original story about Martin Luther King, Jr., "Daddy King" is heavily
booked each year. Workshops for students and teachers are also available.
Audience Limit: 25/workshop; 200/assembly
Fee: Begin at $400 for the first performance, $250 for each thereafter same day/same location.
Funding Sources: Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Foundation for the Arts, B.O.C.E.S. (New York)
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| GWENDOLYN
QUEZAIRE-PRESUTTI |
PO Box 380496
East Hartford, CT 06138-0496
(860) 528-0733 or (860-212-6129 (cell)
E Mail: woventales6@sbcglobal.net
Web site: www.woventales.net or www.rhetoricofsurvival.com
Gwendolyn offers Rhetoric of Survival, a program that dramatizes stories of two 19th century Connecticut free women of color. Sarah Harris (Fayeweather), who dreamed of opening her own school for African-American children, but cruel prejudice and bigotry made that a nightmarish experience. Maria W. Stewart, cheated out of an inheritance by an unscrupulous white merchant, took up public speaking and became the first American born woman to lecture in defense of women's rights.
Spy, Nurse, and Scout Harriet Tubman was unique among black women in her military role. She earned the honorary title "General Tubman," which John Brown bestowed upon her and by which her black countrymen referred to her, as a spy, scout and guerrilla leader for the Union army. Several times she commanded troops, both black and white, on scouting raids, on the most spectacular of which she rescued 756 slaves.
Gwendolyn's Rhetoric of Survival programs and performances, introduce untapped history, different explorations, thereby examining a different historical perspective in the context of everyday life, these women demonstrated an unyielding fearless resolve to obtain liberty and social justice.
Incorporating a creative approach for teaching history, and language arts, Rhetoric of Survival is an ideal concept for implementing new historical information through dramatic storytelling.
Program Titles: Rhetoric of Survival; Spy, Nurse, and Scout
Grade Level Suitabiilty: School age (middle and high school) & Adults/Seniors
Audience Limit: Classroom; 300/assembly
Special requirements: a room with an amount of space for the performance and serveral set pieces provided by the actress, for assemblies a lapel Mic.
Fee: Starting at $500.00 - $1,000
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