Culture Queen to Bring One-of-a-Kind Brand of Entertainment to DC This Month

Looking ahead to Black History Month, award-winning master performing and teaching artist Culture Queen will bring her one-of-a-kind brand of empowering entertainment for children to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1400 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington,, DC at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 27, 2018.

Black History Live! with Culture Queen is a modern-day Josephine Baker-inspired performance for children that uses original and interactive music, movement and storytelling to teach them to celebrate their history and love themselves. With a spoonful of magic and ancient wisdom, Culture Queen's soulful alto voice dances across a fusion of festive calypso, Afrobeat, jazz and hip-hop rhythms that celebrate the Kings and Queens of African American history.

During her engaging, hour-long performance, Culture Queen wows kids with her magnetic personality and creative approach to cultural education by inviting them to celebrate all the things that make them who they are. With a renewed sense of confidence, cultural awareness, and curiosity for exploring the world around them, children leave Black History Live! with Culture Queen proudly exclaiming "I Like The Me I See!"

Culture Queen will also give two performances of Black History Live! with Culture Queen for Washington, DC schoolchildren at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on Monday, January 29.

Jessica "Culture Queen" Hebron is a Maryland-based master performing and teaching artist who creates empowering entertainment for royal children. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Education and African American Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University; and is the founder of Culture Kingdom Kids, LLC. Since 2010, she has produced innovative Black History-themed children's performances, festivals, workshops, and professional development programs for diverse audiences ranging from primary school children to Yale University students, at venues including The Kennedy Center, the Atlas Theatre, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum, the National Children's Museum, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture, the Black History Museum of Virginia, the Prince George's African American Museum and the Alexandria Black History Museum.

Culture Queen has been featured on Fox 5 News, NBC, WJLA/ABC-TV's Good Morning Washington, and the nationally syndicated show NewsOne Now with Roland Martin. She has traveled internationally to Ghana with the L.E.A.P (Literacy, Empowerment and Action Project) to facilitate cultural literacy-building workshops for teachers and students and been a featured speaker on TEDxRVA. In 2015, TED-ED made Culture Queen's lesson plan on African King Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire into an animated short film featured on its free educational website for teachers and learners. To date, the film entitled Mansa Musa: One of the Wealthiest People Who Ever Lived has received over 2,645,010 views and counting. Culture Queen's debut children's album I Like the Me I See!, hits all the right notes for families and educators bringing up confident, culturally aware, and curious children.

ADMISSION: Free, with reservation. Tickets may be reserved HERE.

FOR INFORMATION: Visit the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture website HERE or call 844-750-3012.

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