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So keep it alive make sure
that you support local storytellers

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[Drum Beat]

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This is a part of a universal movement to help all people rise together.

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teach us you know.

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you're connecting, it's just a great way
to teach children it's a great way to

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touches everybody, it's just the way to
really connect on all different

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levels you know, you're thinking, you're
feeling, with a storyteller you're seeing,

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Trying to pass on lessons and culture and tradition and value through a story, it's just, it just

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story orally they want to go and find a
book where that story is.

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My goal with storytelling is to motivate
children to read so when they hear this

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[Drum Beat]

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captured in this one little space
spec called America, no, we are world people.

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able to see that you are part of the
world not just this little thing

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anything that you can imagine and far
more beautiful all you have to do is be

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once they can see that the world is far
far far bigger, it's far bigger than

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people who have power and ability,
capability and once they can do that

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We got to get
children to see themselves as being

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them a little bit more.

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created for them, created from their
ancestors, it just, you know, can touch

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When children are able to
see themselves in stories that are

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our children.

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with Black children and Black
communities we can uplift the spirit of

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When we have an opportunity to share our Black stories as a Black storytellers

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that the boys in the family must at a time determine what they're going to do with their life...

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it is custom

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[Drum beat] In the country of Benin

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introduces all children to the African
and African American culture.

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In this festival we do specialize in African and African American folk tales so it

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the Middle Passage stories from Africa
stories in your own hometown.

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stories about where we come from what
happened during that time, stories about

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It's very important that stories are told, not only family stories, but historical stories

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[Singing: Ga ga aye - aye yo ...]

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So we have to make certain that we
continue to bring that up.

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the Western world because not everybody
is treated as if that we are all human.

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about what it is to be human.Being human is one of the most difficult concepts in

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It's along with teaching the things

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Every story has a lesson. We teach
through story.

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What we call this is edutainment.

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[Singers: Ashe Ashe]

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[Singing] We learn it from ancestors at the start.

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[Singing] Storytelling is an art. [Singers: Ashe Ashe]

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single culture.

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[Drum beat]

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The oral tradition of storytelling is
so powerful, it's how we all began, every

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"Signifyin' & Testifyin'"  [crowd claps]

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27th Annual Black Master Storytelling Festival

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I am so pleased to welcome you to the

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there and we all have something to learn
and we all have a story to tell.

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[Drum Beat Ends] Thank you.

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because they're out there, for schools,
for churches, for communities, they're out