Performance Description

Meet Grandmother Mims as she searches through the old trunk in her attic in "My Grandmother Told Me: A Tribute to Black Women" (Grades 3-12). Each item she pulls out sparks a memory of days past and of courageous Black women and their struggles to be free, to vote, and to get an education. Using monologues, poetry, and songs, Debra leads the audience in this highly interactive walk through an important part of America's history. In "Grandma's Cautionary Tales" (Grades 1-8) Grandmother Sally Kathryn Mims returns to tell stories her grandmother told her. This time she tells an entertaining mix of ghost, folk, and "cautionary" tales found in African, African-American, and Caribbean literature. The stories engage the audience in an entertaining and interactive style. Most important, the audience learns a moral or lesson from the stories.