QUEEN NUR Artistic Resume

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PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLER/TEACHING ARTIST

1993 to Present

Performance Summary

High energy · Original work · Interactive games · Call and response · Audience participation · Folktales · Multi-cultural stories · Audience specific or Full age-range

· Teaches values · Curriculum infused · Song, dance, poetry · Historical presentations · Spiritual stories · Educational and fun · Percussion

Performance and Workshop Venues

“Queen Nur” presents extensively to thousands at schools, libraries, museums, churches, festivals, hospitals, corporate facilities, in-services, family reunions,conferences,

elder centers, retreats and special events, including:

NJN Public Television: Another View

National Black Storytelling Festival & Conference

John F. Kennedy Center,Washington, DC

Equitable Tower Theater, Broadway, New York

Tour, New York City Parks & Recreation

Smoky Hill River Festival, KS

International Children’s Showcase, Canada

National Storytelling Festival,TN Exchange Place

Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival

African-Am. Storytellers’ Retreat, NC

University of Pennsylvania

Kravis Center, Palm Beach, FL

Tour New Orleans Public Schools, LA

Symphony Space, NY

The Ritz Theatre, FL.

Katzenbach School for the Deaf, NJ

Miller Theater, TX

Johnson & Johnson Corporation

The Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, NJ

Tour of Ocean County Library System

Tour of Wake County Schools, NC

Masters’ at Midnight Concert, PA

Rochester Public Schools for Young Audiences

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Playhouse Square Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

Summary of Community Projects

1990-92 Creator, Stride the Pride, Award winning self-esteem program

1992 Co-Director, Children’s Theater and Children’s March

1992-94 Counselor, NAACP ACT-SO, trained National award winning teenage youth in drama.

1994-present Founder, Annual Willingboro Community Kwanzaa Storyfest’

1995-1997 President, Keepers of the Culture, Inc.

1997-present Board Member/Program Director, National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc.

Rosters & Residencies

1999-present Faculty, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, (Camden Schools)

1999, 2001, 2003. Artist As Catalyst, MidAtlantic Arts Foundation • Women Against Abuse • Garden State Discovery Museum -Teenage Parents

2000-present Touring Artist TheatreworksUSA, New York, NY

2000-present United Arts Council, Wake County, NC.

2000-present Artist in Education, New Jersey State Council on the Arts• Central Elementary School • Woodbury Child Development Center• Aura Elementary School•

Logan Township History Project: Lenape Nation •Woodrow Wilson Elementary School

2001-present Young Audiences of Rochester

Publications and Recordings

1986 Editor, Harvard Law School Case Clearinghouse Catalog: games teaching dispute resolution

1996 Selections on “Love is a Mighty Fine Thing,” Keepers of the Culture Philadelphia

1998 “Sweet Potato Pie and Such”, CD Duinsity

2002 “Black Inventors Rap” in “Poems, Stories, ETC.: An Eclectic Experience, by Shirley E. Riley

2003"Queen Nur Live and Storified at the Walt Whitman Center." Historic Live Recording with Storytelling Jazz Band. 2- CD set.

Education

1984 Northeastern University, B.S.

1985 Harvard Law School, Specialization in Dispute Resolution Certificate

1996 Temple University, Post Graduate Courses in African American Studies

2000/02 Artist Teacher Institute, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

2002 University of Pennsylvania, Post Graduate Study: Children’s Folklore

Memberships

Keepers of the Culture • National Association of Black Storytellers • National Storytelling Network • ACES (Arts Create Excellent Schools)

 

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