Our style of storytelling is built upon work done by @ogutumuraya and @MuthoniGarland (of @Storymoja) at the beginning of the decade.
They were working with stories from "Living Memories", a book by @alkags.
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They were working with stories from "Living Memories", a book by @alkags.
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We were very taken by Ogutu& #39;s take on Said Ongwen Olaga (who served Elizabeth phlegm during her stay at Tree Tops before becoming the queen of Britain) & Hussein Warutere (who suffered 13 years of hard labour in prison for using a Whites Only toilet in apartheid colonial Kenya.
These performances happened on Sunday, July 22, 2012, and Sunday, June 16, 2013, on two storytelling shows: #TalesandStories & #TalesandStoriesII by @ArtsandOak.
The lead performers were @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye.
The lead performers were @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye.
The line up included @AbuSense_ and (performing under the group @SiNiSisi) @AVoodooChile, @bzartony and Ngartia of @Storyzetu.
Bonus:
1, 2 & 3: @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye in that duet storytelling style that Abu and Ngartia would embody years later in our first edition.
4: @WanjikuMwavu hanging with Ogutu after one of the Tales & Stories show.
1, 2 & 3: @ogutumuraya and @ewamboye in that duet storytelling style that Abu and Ngartia would embody years later in our first edition.
4: @WanjikuMwavu hanging with Ogutu after one of the Tales & Stories show.
On this show at the @VillageMarket food court, organized by @Artsandoak, Ngartia tested out one of the stories that would be on the show.
The lessons from that informed the @KwaniOpenMic performance of the Muthoni Nyanjiru story (with @AbuSense_ and @_Njagi_).
The lessons from that informed the @KwaniOpenMic performance of the Muthoni Nyanjiru story (with @AbuSense_ and @_Njagi_).
And of course, lessons from the @KwaniOpenMic gig would lead to the first edition of #TooEarlyForBirds.
And the rest, as they say, ladies, gentlemen and non-binary folk, ni form kujipa.
And the rest, as they say, ladies, gentlemen and non-binary folk, ni form kujipa.
You know what?
We have time...
Mention anyone in the Kenyan art scene and we will find how they have contributed to the existence of #TEFB.
We have time...
Mention anyone in the Kenyan art scene and we will find how they have contributed to the existence of #TEFB.