This highly interactive performance designed for audiences to participate, celebrate and “Jubilate.” Values are indelibly remembered through lively folktales, fables, and fairytales. The duo performance of storyteller and percussionist can be customized upon consultation.
Use this link to view a video excerpt from this program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbFu2DYeA_c&feature=youtu.be
Artist Background
Karen “Queen Nur” Abdul-Malik is a nationally renowned storyteller, teaching artist and folklorist . Sharing her gift, and accompanied by International jazz drummer Dwight James, she has performed in venues from the Opening of the Smithsonian NAAMCH to Equity Theater on Broadway, to the National Black Storytelling Festival. Traveling abroad Queen has presented for the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon and PANAFEST in Ghana. She is the Emcee for the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Awards Concert (2019-2020). Queen has been awarded the pretigious Zora Neale Hurston Award by the National Association of Black Storytellers, MidAtlantic Artist as Catalyst Grants for her work with Teens-at-Risk and Women’s Shelters and the National Storytelling Brimstone Grant for her innovative community-based programs. In 2018, she received the NJ Governor’s Teaching Artist Award and was YANJEP Artist of the Year. s In 2023 she was named New Jersey Heritage Fellow. Queen has her MA in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College.
Search Criteria
- Program Type: Performance
- Discipline: Storytelling
- Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
- Cultural Context: African, African-American
- Accepts bookings in Johnston County
