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Thanks to all of YOU who made the 17th Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival, "Signifyin' & Testifyin'" an overwhelmingly positive SUCCESS!

Welcome

To the Black Storytellers Alliance home page.  We are a non profit organization dedicated to assisting you in finding out the information that you need about the power of the oral tradition as practiced by African people in the Diaspora.  Our mission is to maintain the art of storytelling as a primary source for positive instruction and reinforcement of the rich beauty embodied in the telling of "the story"!  On these pages you will find a few of the many Master Storytellers across the USA and Canada who have made that mission an avocation.  We'll put the news (the story) in this place and refer you to where others may be found!

Based in the Minnesota plains, we invite you to submit your stories and your links for inclusion and join us in our annual storytelling festival entitled, "Signifyin' and Testifyin'"® the last full weekend of September!  

This is the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) link on this site along with the links of a number of the affiliates throughout the country.  So come back often and let us know what you think!

SCHOOLS

Thank you - to all the Metropolitan Area schools who brought the 1,961 students and 225 chaperones to the Friday performances at Macalester College, Cowles Auditorium and Seed Academy-Harvest Prep and The Best Academy for Boys!  Please continue to send us your feedback on the experience.

 

17th Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival,

"Signifyin' & Testifyin'"

September 25-27, 2008

 

Thank you also to all of you who filled the house for each of our events:

The Opening Ceremonies at Redeemer Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis;

 

The Liar's Contest at the Elks Ames Lodge 106 in North Minneapolis; and

 

Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley!

These events were supported by the

Community Action Agency of Minneapolis

 

Last updated: October 4, 2008

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