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GREETINGS Medasi Asante Sana Jerre Jef Thank YOU! For Attending the 2007 Retreat! "Much was said, Much was learned and Much was done!" Plan for Next Year!! May 22-25, 2008 Click Here for Photos (Past and Present)
Thanks to all of this year's attendees and to our new friends and to our staff: Yawa Tuprah, Kenyatta Henry, Donna Graham Jackie Sanders, Wsir Johnson, Madia Stepney, Bunjo Butler, and Baba Jamal Koram Special Thanks to: Brother Mandingo Caroliese Frink Reed Sister Asantewaa of Chapel Hill, and to Stacey, Carl, Markus, Dallas, Our Sisters in the Cafe and the Pinnacle Studios Staff for their hospitality and their ability to adjust! and again, to all our attendees who made this a cultural empowering and healing good time! Baba Jamal Koram, Ed.S., Director African American Storytelling Arts Institute © 2007
The Afrakan 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 is to gather storytellers and other lovers of African/American culture to involve themselves in four expressions of culture: music, dance, visual arts, and the storytelling. 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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