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Medasi Asante Sana Jerre Jef Thank YOU! 2007 What a weekend it was! Thanks to all of the attendees and to our new friends and to our Teaching and Administrative Team: Yawa Tuprah, Kenyatta Henry, Donna Graham, Madia Stepney Baba Mandingo, Mama Asantewaa, Jackie Sanders, Bunjo Butler Brother Atiba and Baba Jamal Koram, Special Thanks to: The Attendees: J. Wilson G. Hilary A. Newbern M. Ruff O.W. King Queen Mother Suma R. Diarra O. Daste J. Sanders O. Pugh K. Atendare O. Oliver J. Bryant Jakkia V. Legaux B. Smith B. Burnette B. Williams D. Fielder C. Johnson D. Pritchett AND TO Stacey and Carl and the Carolina Pinnacle Studios Staff and to ALL who made this a cultural empowerment and healing good time! Baba Jamal Koram, Director African American Storytelling Arts Institute Click Here for Photos (Past and Present)
The Afrikan village is the past, present, and future experiences of Black people. It is a haven, a place of assurance, reliance and creativity. It is a place to build BUILDING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN STORYTELLING VILLAGE The mission of the retreat has is to gather storytellers and other lovers of African/American culture to involve themselves in four expressions of culture: music, dance movement, visual arts, and the spoken word. In each year of its existence, the Retreat has had storytelling workshops to deepen our understanding of the place of Blackstorytelling (one word) in the social fabric of our people. We have told stories, made instruments and played instruments, and prayed, and circled up and healed and planted trees to honor ancestors, and have added African names to befit our new personalities. Most of all we have shared ourselves and our families in creating a cultural community. These are important activities. The need for dedicated folk artists, pioneers of culture and righteous personalities has increased, and this is the training ground, this retreat is where the “words we speak are the deeds we do.” The Retreat Continues. Harambee na Masakhane - Pull together and rebuild Baba Jamal Koram, Ed.S.
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