KOTC VIDEOS - PAST & PRESENT

28TH ANNUAL LOVE NIGHT 2020

What a historical, timely & visionary evening as we presented virtually for our family & friends!

Featuring KOTC's finest storytellers pre-recorded on Facebook Live & You Tube. Thanks to our president, Our Son Paul, our co-founder Wanda Gigetts.

"WORDS OF OUR MOUTH, Songs of our heart" - January 2020

An unforgettable experience of Umoja! with SHADES OF YALE

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NOELLA MERCER, a former Watoto Of Joy, our youth component. Noella leads on "Oh Mary Don'cha Weep" with a cappella group, Shades of Yale University in performance with Keepers Of The Culture Storytellers @ Penn Museum of Philadelphia, January 2020

Nkasi Sikelel by SHADES of Yale University - Story by STORYTELLING IRMA GARDNER-HAMMOND

BROTHER NASHID ALI & Shades of Yale University a cappella group sangin' -

"I'd Rather Go Blind"

CARLA "Mama Read" WILEY, tells "Grandma's Magic"

"No Mirror's In My Nana's House" sung by Shades of Yale

January 2020

FAMILY DAYS

OUR SUN PAUL D. BEST tells Tit 4 Tat - Egypt

23rd Annual Family Day 2019

Jambo Mama Africa!

Free Library of Philadelphia

Sundays On Stage

MAMA DEE tell The Leopard Woman, a Liberian tale

Jambo Mama Africa!

Free Library of Philadelphia

Sundays On Stage Series

23rd Annual Family Day 2019

MAMA NZINGA tells "Why Giraffe Has A Long Neck" a Kenya tale at our 23rd Annual Family Day - 2019

JAMBO MAMA AFRICA!

Free Library of Philadelphia Sundays On Stage Series

OUR ROOTS

JANICE "JAWARA" BISHOP, a KOTC co-founder, tells her Grandfather's stories at Stories In Service, a GriotWorks Production 2010

LINDA GOSS, co-founder of KOTC & NABS and the official storyteller of Philadelphia, speaks on her life journey as a world class griot.

CHARLOTTE BLAKE-ALSTON, a co founder of KOTC delivers "Standing on Tradition" at a TEDx talk in Wilmington, Delaware. 2017

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

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

JOSLYN DUNCAN, a KOTC member and founder of GRIOTWORKS produced a promo short for the National Association of Black Storytellers Festival & Conference, Cincinnati, OH. Theme: "Celebrating Heroes and She-roes of Freedom" 2008

Oni Lasana Doin' Dunbar as 'Lias' Mother

"In The Morning" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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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)

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