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In this interactive, family friendly program, Dr. Johnston Bush shares traditional folktales and songs that participants choose and sometimes create by selecting items from her Rocking Story Bag.
In this interactive, family friendly program, Dr. Naima Johnston Bush shares traditional folktales and songs that participants choose and sometimes create by selecting items from her Rocking Story Bag. Performing as a griot, a member of a class of traveling poets, historians, musicians and storytellers who maintain a tradition or oral history in parts of West Africa. Each item tucked away in Mamma's bag represents a story or song from countries around the world. This program is an engaging joyous celebration of music, the universal bonding that occurs through storytelling and the beauty of diversity.
AGE GROUP: | All Ages |
EVENT TYPE: | History - Culture - Genealogy | General Events | Education & Learning |
TAGS: | epd | blackhistory |
LYNX Bus Link 41 State Road 436
The North Orange Branch began as a bookmobile station in 1950, and was replaced by a branch in 1964. Moving to the Palm Plaza Shopping Center in 1969, the branch occupied a 3500 square foot space there for twenty years. In 1989 the branch moved to its present 12,000 square foot facility. As the name implies, the North Orange branch serves the areas of Apopka, Plymouth, Zellwood, Tangerine, and environs.