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About the African American Storytelling Arts Institute (AASAI)

AASAI   3213 Duke Street #629   Alexandria, VA  22314  

The African American Storytelling Arts Institute provides educational programs

and training in storytelling for both professionals and non-professionals to advance

and sustain African Oral Traditions.

AASAI began in 1991 as the brainchild of master storyteller Baba Jamal Koram, Ed.S. 

Its purpose is to establish the African Oral Tradition as a visible cultural imperative 

in educational, cultural and social settings, and to orient individuals to the process of 

becoming conscious storytellers.  

AASAI includes educational and cultural programs and workshops, performances, 

tours, lectures, publications and other media productions.

Based on over twenty years of national- and international storytelling experience in 

the African oral tradition, the AASAI workshops and resident programs provide training 

experience necessary to master the skills of storytelling.  The workshops provide an :

The residential program, is a more extended and in-depth training program. 

 It includes an  introductory workshop, which emphasizes traditional styles,

 phrasing, language and cultural motifs which support basic African centered 

values and concepts.  AASAI is only one, of a few institutions in the USA, which 

provides exclusive training in the African/African American oral traditions 

of storytelling.

 Programs of the African American Storytelling Arts Institute

Several opportunities for workshops, residencies and organizational training programs

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Contact Information                     

 Telephone   703-684-8587

                        919-673-2507

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