Its a festival within a festival with
legions of devoted fans of its own.
The Storytelling Festival offers as much
drama, intrigue and laughs as any full
fledged play or musical. Members of the
N.C. Association of Black Storytellers, Inc.
are the stars of the Storytelling Festival,
and from their mouths, a story is not just
a story.
Intonation, facial expressions, hand
gestures and, sometimes, musical
instruments are their tools, and with
them, they hold young audiences captive.
Many of their stories are parables that
teach life lessons; others share cultural
and history lessons. The Storytelling
Festival is one of those NBTF classics. It is
offered every two years and was the first
NBTF experience that many had.
The mission of the North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers (NCABS) is to
promote and perpetuate the art of black storytelling, an art form that members say
"embodies the history and cultures of Africans and African-Americans." NCABS
members hail from across the state. They derive many of their stories from family and
community histories, tall tales, folktales, African-American Literature and the Bible.
The group was founded in 1995 and is one of the 15 affiliates of the National
Association of Black Storytellers, which was founded in 1982 by Linda Goss and the
late Mary Carter Smith. ?
_ PHOTO COURTESY OF NCABS
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Some of the members
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Black Storytellers Inc.
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