Program Type:
Community Events, Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Music, Arts, & Culture, Interest Groups, Other- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on February 3, 2026 @ 6:30pm.
Program Description
Event Details
The Ubuntu Storytellers, an ensemble of performance artists from across the Diaspora, are joined by guests who will tell personal stories of allyship. Contemporary stories of needing an ally, of being an ally and of the second guessing that sometimes comes after. Stories of being imperfect, unsure. Stories of being heard by the right someone at the right time. We tell these stories to celebrate when we step up and step in, as well as to acknowledge that sometimes it can be difficult to show up, speak up. Mostly we tell so we can feel together the impact of "the long echo of a moment." Sponsored by the NewAlliance Foundation in New Haven, CT.
This is a hybrid program; patrons have the option of attending in-person at the library or virtually on Zoom. Registration is required - please sign up below!
The Ubuntu Storytellers were awarded by the Alliance of Community Media for their podcast produced by WPAA – Community Media Center in Wallingford. Denise Manning Keyes Page, founder and producer of the Ubuntu Storytellers, has performed nationally and recently appeared on the Moth Main Stage in New Haven, CT. Her fellow story artists in this performance include both local and nationally recognized tellers.