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This program is an engaging joyous celebration of music, the universal bonding that occurs through storytelling and the beauty of diversity.
In this interactive, family friendly program, Dr. Naima Johnston Bush shares traditional folktales and songs that participants choose and 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.
LYNX Bus Link 37 Pine Hills / Florida Mall
The Hiawassee Branch began as a bookmobile station in 1962 and was first known as the Pine Hills Library. In later moves the branch became the West Colonial branch and in March 2000, Hiawassee. In early 2010, the Hiawassee Branch moved to a new home near the corner of Hiawassee Road and West Colonial Drive in the Highland Lakes shopping plaza.