RIBS invites you to SANKOFA: Providence, 11/20

The Rhode Island Black Storytellers, otherwise known as RIBS, invites you to participate in SANKOFA: PROVIDENCE, this Sunday, November 20, 2011, from 5-7 pm at 393 Broad Street in Providence. (This is the Trinity Methodist Church that sits at the junction of Broad and Elmwood. Go to the parking lot behind the church and come in through the back door to the annex). Admission is FREE.

"Sankofa" is an Akan word from Ghana. It means "go back and retrieve it" with the idea being that we must know our history to understand our present and create our future.

This project, made possible through a major grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, has enabled RIBS storytellers and youth from local African communities to explore Black history in Providence as part of the Celebrate Providence 375th initiative. Young people from OASIS International, an organization that serves primarily Nigerian youth, and Higher Ground International, servicing young people from Liberia and Sierra Leone, have had the opportunity to go on local Black history tours, explore their own family culture and history, and begin to learn some storytelling techniques. This Sunday, students will they share what they have learned, RIBS tellers will perform, and YOU are invited to join in community story-sharing. Following the storytelling, we will share traditional foods from Nigerian, Liberian and African American culture.

For more information: Valerie Tutson: 401 439 7122