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"Telling Our Story, Claiming Our Glory"

KEEPERS OF THE CULTURE, Inc.

Philadelphia's Afrocentric Storytelling Group

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KOTC Logo (c)1996 Columbus Knox

VIDEO GALLERY - PAST & PRESENT

23rd Annual Family Day 2019

Jambo Mama Africa!

Paul D. Best - Egypt - Tit 4 Tat

Free Library of Philadelphia

Sundays On Stage


23rd Annual Family Day 2019

Jambo Mama Africa!

Mama Dee - Nigeria - The Leopard Woman

Free Library of Philadelphia

Sundays On Stage Series

Our 22nd Annual Family Day 2018 "Ain't It Funny" Creative Director, Oni Lasana presents a ANANSI SONG with KOTC drummers. Mama Nzinga as Aesop's milkmaid dancing with a shy little one.  

In 2008, KOTC member, JOSLYN DUNCAN founder of GRIOTWORKS produced a promo short for the National Association of Black Storytellers Festival & Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

Theme: "Celebrating Heroes and Sheroes of Freedom"

In 2017, KOTC's founding member CHARLOTTE BLAKE-ALSTON delivers on the importance of storytelling at a TEDx talk in Wilmington, Delaware.

KOTC's Life-member, NASHID ALI  Call & Response at GriotWorks, Stories in Service 2010

KOTC & NABS Co-founder, LINDA GOSS, speaks on her life as a storyteller. 

KOTC's Life-member, QUEEN NUR tells her version of the Hispanic folktale, "Good To Know A Second Language" @ TEDx talk, Philadelphia, Philadelphia.

KOTC's Co-founder CAROLIESE FRINK REED, Phd., tells the folktale, High John The Conquerer @ KOTC's Family Day October 2015

KOTC's Co-founder, JANICE "JAWARA" BISHOP tells her Grandfather's  stories at Stories In Service,  a GriotWorks Production

KOTC'S Co-founder, WANDA GIGETTS @ Family Day

October 2015

 

Family Day 2018

Aesop Song : Chorus by Diane Ferlatte, Poem by Oni Lasana

Performed by Oni Lasana &  Onochie Odenigbo aka "Young Brother O" 

Keepers Of The Culture, Inc. (KOTC), youth group, Watoto of Joy, presented at the Free Library of Philadelphia main branch in October 2015. Onochie Odenigbo, 9, shares his original opening.

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AYA the Adinkra symbol of endurance and resourcefulness. 

The fern is a hardy plant that can grow in difficult places. 

"An individual who wears this symbol suggests that he has endured 

many adversities and outlasted much difficulty." 

(Willis, The Adinkra Dictionary)

With YOU : KOTC grows!

KOTC is a non-profit organization. 

Your generous tax-deductible donation will fund our mission.


We offer quality arts-in-education programs to under served schools and neighborhoods in Philadelphia and in the PA, NJ, DE tri-state area. 


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