African Folk Arts on Film

And Storytelling by Awele Makeba Admission: $3. Recommended for age 5 and older. In conjunction with the exhibition Africa Explores, this program includes documentaries of Ashanti craftsmen carving intricate chairs and a young apprentice in Tanzania learning to make a dhow, an East African sailing craft. Plus Kuumba: Simon's New Sound, an African/Caribbean legend about how steel drums were created. Following the films, local storyteller Awele Makeba, The Teller of All Tales, presents African and African-American folktales.

This page may by only partially complete.