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February  15  -  February 17

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Trickster Tales & Sea Island Songs: A Georgia Sea Island Play-Party
Thursday,  February  15  -  Saturday,  February 17 , 10:15 and 11:45 am
Discovery Theater, S. Dillon Ripley Center
Tickets required. Call 202.357.1500

Storyteller and singer Xavier Carnegie introduces tales that were used to teach lessons to children living on the Sea Island rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. The audience can sing along with Sea Island children’s songs and touch sea-grass baskets and other artifacts of the Gullah people. The Feb 17 show is $9 a child, $10 for adults, and tickets are required.
Call 202.357.1500.

Thursday–Friday, February 15–16, 10:15 and 11:45 am

Saturday, February 17, 12 noon

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