Experience the richness of oral storytelling as artistic performance and its important role in Black history and culture as honored storyteller Deborah Asante presents stories from African folklore. Following the performance, Asante invites questions from the audience about storytelling as an art form and how to tell your own stories. Intended for children, but all ages welcome. Please register.

This Friends of the Library program is part of the 2022 Power of Words initiative bringing author Jacqueline Woodson to Bloomington for a talk at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on February 5, and the Marian Armstrong Exhibit, Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards on display at the Downtown Library from February 1–March 20.