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through the eyes of
Coretta Scott King
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 | 2 P.M. | VML
Rosie is a featured performer Senegal, and West Africa.
who involves her audiences in
the dramatic, energized sto- In the United States, she
rytelling experiences of unfa- has performed and exhibited
miliar as well as familiar, mul- throughout Michigan, Connect-
ticultural folk tales, fairy tales, icut, Texas, Florida, New Mexi-
historical figures in costume co, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
and life stories. Relating in the
oral tradition, always engaging Rosie has also held exhibi-
the audience, Rosie sometimes tions, written articles, and had
accompanies the stories with numerous publications in the
songs and sometimes with Afri- field of doll art. Some of her
Rosie Chapman a.k.a. Miz Rosie can instruments. She calls her biographical books and sketch-
The Storyteller brings Coretta performance style as “edutain- es are Dollmaking as a Trans-
Scott King to life as she per- ment”- always entertaining formative Process, and Black
forms the life of Martin Luther and educational through audi- Dolls Bold, Proud and Beautiful.
King Jr. through his wife’s eyes. ence participation as actors in Rosie was also a regular con-
the presentation. tributor to Art Doll Quarterly.
The audience will be taken back
in time to the early years of Her one-woman shows, of Miz Rosie is a past president of
Coretta Scott King and Martin Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, the Detroit Association of Black
Luther King Jr., as well as the Sojourner Truth, Madame CJ Storytellers, featured perform-
background history of how the Walker, Coretta Scott King, er with the Michigan Humani-
Civil Rights began with the im- ties Council for the Arts and a
petus of the Montgomery Bus Marian Anderson, Maya Ange- member of the Art Therapist
Boycott. Young and old will be lou or the African Queen Moth-
er, thrill audiences of all ages. Association.
transformed into actors as they Rosie has performed and held
perform alongside Miz Rosie in storytelling workshops in di-
this audience participatory sto-
rytelling experience. verse locales such as Australia,
Germany, Scotland, Ghana and
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