Tickets for FABLES & FAIRYTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD On Sale Now!

By: May. 09, 2017
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The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center and the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs announced today that single tickets for Fables & Fairytales from Around the World featuring Afiah Bey will go on sale Thursday, May 11 at 10 a.m. Afiah Bey is a Griot, oral historian, traveling storyteller, musician, poet and part of the West African traditional story-keepers. Afiah will be joined by Eldrena Douma, Pueblo storyteller, and Delilah Buitron, Spanish storyteller. Afiah Bey and guest storytellers will perform at

6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 27 in Hamon Hall in the downtown Dallas Arts District.

Center Members get access to the best available tickets. Call Membership Services at 214-978-2888 or go to www.attpac.org/support to join. Center Membership presale begins Tuesday, May 9 at 10 a.m.

Tickets for Fables & Fairytales from Around the World featuring Afiah Bey are FREE and will be available, beginning Thursday, May 11

at 10 a.m., online at www.attpac.org, by telephone at 214-880-0200 or in person at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Winspear Opera House Box Office at 2403 Flora Street. The Box Office will be open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. seven days a week and before performances.

The final production of the Elevator Project 2017 season is The Danielle Georgiou Dance Group: Donkey Beach, which runs June 22 through June 25, 2017. The ELEVATOR PROJECT 2017 season is supported by TACA and Texas Commission on the Arts.

I was born the 5th of 11 children to Marietta and Cecil Bell. At dinner time they would tell stories of family members and friends of the family. I attended ETSU (Texas A&M Commerce) and taught in DISD as a Special Education teacher. I did stories with the students which led to my classes performing for school programs. I became the cultural arts chairperson, and involved the whole school with oratorical and cultural programs. I resigned in 1996 to become a full-time Griot (gree-o)-oral historian, storyteller, musician, poet and singer. I perform for schools, museums, libraries, cultural events, festivals and parties. I am a member of the Dallas Storytelling Guild. I have been a Griot/Storyteller since 1993 involving audiences to enhance morals, values and culture to uplift self-esteem.

Storytelling and Pueblo singing were a way of life in Eldrena Douma's upbringing. During everyday activities family and friends shared pueblo stories, songs, and family history including the humorous and serious personal stories that life brought. Reflecting back, Eldrena realized that listening to story allowed her to strengthen and stimulate the use of her imagination and creativity. Stories helped her at an early age to develop her use of vocabulary, pronunciation, and sentence structure while teaching core values. The traditional songs gave her an appreciation of all music and songwriting along with the crafting of traditional instruments. As a professional storyteller and educator, Eldrena offers captivating stories of American Indian folklore, a variety of recorded music, and history titled "The People, Their Stories and Songs."

Delilah Buitron is Co-Founder of The Flame Foundation, Artistic Director of The Dallas Flamenco Festival, and Director of Estudio Flamenco Conservatory of Dallas. Delilah is a native Texan from Laredo and received her BFA in Theatre and T.V. Communications from Hofstra University in New York. Upon graduation, Delilah moved to Spain where she studied Spanish Classical and Flamenco at the Isabel Quintero Conservatory as well as at the internationally acclaimed Amor de Dios school of Flamenco. Delilah was a recipient of a 2013 "Dallas Observer Mastermind Award" for excellence in artistic endeavors. She will perform a Spanish fable, and a short Flamenco piece with Antonio Arrebola, Director and Choreographer for Flamenco DNA, and Lennon Wolfgang Gardner. 7 year old Lennon is a " Flamenkito " at Estudio Flamenco Conservatory of Dallas.



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