Awele Makeba

Storyteller, teaching artist

Categories: Actors, Education, Art and Music

Booking Fee Range: Contact booking agent for fee info (About Fees)

Speaker Travels From: Please Contact

Awele (ah WAY lay) has mesmerized audiences around the world including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria; the Suriname and Costa Rican rainforest; and Tsinchu Teacher's College in Taiwan. She is an award winning and internationally known storyteller, recording artist, educator and she's also a Community Producer of Cultural Programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. She paints pictures with words, breathes life into characters, teaches, and inspires through the power of story--personal tales, history, folklore and children's literature. Makeba who has made it her life's work to tell history through the words of its oft-forgotten witnesses, wrote two one-woman shows, Rage Is Not A 1-Day Thing! and I'm Not Getting Up Until Jim Crow Gets Off, in which Makeba tells the story of the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott through the eyes of four women, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, Rosa Parks and JoAnn Robinson. Her award winning CDs include: Tell That Tale Again, Trailblazers: African Americans in the California Gold Rush,This Land Is Your Land (Music for Little People)and The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York (OPB). Film credits include Supervisor Ella Hill Hutch in the Oscar award winning film, MILK directed by Gus Van Sant starring Sean Penn. Ms. Makeba's most recent stage appearences include the Gallo Center for the Performing Arts, Omaha Storytelling Camp, and a 3rd return engagement to the Vienna, Austria Storytelling Festival 2010.

Contact agent about booking Awele Makeba

Check Availability

* Required fields

Speaker
*
*
*
Prefer Contact
Phone Email

Similar Speakers

News
Videos
Products

(Powered By Google News)

Please wait while results are being fetched...

Tell That Tale Again

Search Amazon For More »

Booking Agency-related Disclaimer

Fee Information: Booking Fees to hire speakers and celebrities are determined based on a number factors and often change without notice. Some factors include: speakers schedule, length of presentation, location of event, market conditions, availability and interest. Fee Ranges listed on this website are intended to serve only as a guideline. For the most current celebrity fees or to check availability, please contact a booking agent.

Please Note: All American Speakers Bureau acts only as an entertainment broker/producer for corporate functions, private engagements and special events. All American Speakers Bureau does not claim or represent itself as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Awele Makeba or any artists or celebrities on this website.

All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, private events, public relations campaigns, promotions, commercials and product endorsements.

Profiles listed on this website are provided as a resource to our clients, which are meeting and event planners and other buyers of talent in order to provide them with the widest variety and selection of available talent. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read about the All American Speakers Bureau Advantage.

Due to the volume of emails and calls we receive, we can no longer respond to inquiries related to any of the following:

Schedules of upcoming public appearances
Contact info for artists or requests to forward messages.
Artist's TV, stage or film projects or representation
Requests for artists to donate items for auctions, etc.
Media requests for print, radio or TV interviews.
Non-paying or expenses only fundraisers.
Any inquiry not related to hiring talent for paid engagements

Related Tags: Find More Information on booking Awele Makeba for appearances, speaking engagements, endorsements/spokesperson, appearance fees, booking agency contact info, biography of Awele Makeba, Contact an artist booking talent agent find a speakers bureau that can book Awele Makeba, speaker booking agency for Awele Makeba, list of similar speakers and celebrities for hire, what is the cost to book a top 10 motivational speaker, musician, comedian or famous athlete.