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A youth and/or child version of the www.AfricanAmericanDramaCompany.org flagship production has dates available to perform in your community. This Can I Speak For You Brother? assembly uses students as performers, rewards young audience members for correctly answering Black history questions and employs its professional actor (www.PhillipEWalker.com) to bring alive historical African American leaders and activities including President Barack Obama.
The interactive twenty-five (25) to sixty (60) minute mini performance selects from: a sing-a-long about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; theatrical reading of an African folk tale; a Booker T. Washington/W.E.B. DuBois puppet show debate; a mock “sit-in” singing “We Shall Overcome”; a Frederick Douglass and/or Barack Obama oration; plus children playfully acting out the “middle passage” or the participatory singing of an authentic slave folk song or professional performance of an authentic slave folk tale gleefully told in and among the audience. All adjusted to the audience’s age.
Fees for the production range between $300 and $1900 with the African American Drama Company (AADC) paying its own travel costs. Log on to www.TouringBlackHistory.com to view the production’s up to date tour schedule. The interactive play can be performed in any space.
AADC is America’s most extensively toured find arts organization. It is the only such group to have played every United State, having performed in each at least twice. Closing 2007 at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the annual www.KwanzaaMusical.com kid history of Kwanzaa musical premiered for 2008 on August 5th at Walt Disney World Florida. It closed on Kuumba Day, December 31st at San Jose, CA’s www.AfricanAmericanHolidaySeason.com.
Having directed programs for John Robert Powers-San Jose, Third Baptist Church of San Francisco’s Being Black is Being Smart and San Jose’s St. Paul’s UMC Youth Creative Arts Center, Walker’s www.LittleBillReaderS.com now offers www.ThankYouDrKing.com unique reading fluency instruction. Phil has worked with youth in theater since 1971 and this fall opens the talent development school www.ENTERTAINERACADEMY.com. As a professional actor, Phillip E. appeared in Oscar Best Actor two time nominee Will Smith’s The Pursuit of Happyness and most recently worked on Sean Penn’s Academy Award winning MILK.
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CONTACT: Phillip E Walker, AADC Artistic Director, 30 E. Julian #218, SJ, CA 95112-4076
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