Each-One, Teach 1
Each-One, Reach 1
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on "CBS Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt.
Coming Fall
2017
The Tours Focus...
This interactive tours are designed to engage audiences in the building of our nation through the context of populations that are not often talked about. The English landed at Jamestown in 1607, however others also helped mold the nation we live in today. Pres. Washington and Pres. Jeffereson lived in a class that was foreign to the majority of the population.
This tour unveils the stories of the Indigenous Americans, Africans, and other European groups like the Portugese, the Irish, the Dutch and the Spanish. These perspectives are highlighted in Jamestown, Virginia (the Settlement & National Park), Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown Virginia as well as other locations in the Historic Triangle.
HISTORICAL TRIANGLE
Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown & Yorktown:
DAY & NIGHT Walking Programs

Formatted in TWO ways: The "DAY & NIGHT" programs: Interactive walking-theatrical productions
While the DAY tours are founded solely in researched information, and Guest can interact with interpreters/performers directly through 1st & 3rd person character interpretations.
The DAY street tours are specific for tour companies-groups, schools, conferences,
churches, families and others seeking guides throughout the Historic Triangle area.
Anyone can seek services based on needs.
This can include group discounts on shows and other packages.
Information is available through local hotels in the HISTORIC TRIANGLE region.
The NIGHT tour is a dramatic thriller, engaging audiences in the history of Colonial America through the same lens as the "Other Half Dozens" tour.
Participants' observation of the characters in the NIGHT program are like "flies on the wall"
& At NIGHT- everything from GHOST TALES to SCANDALS unfold before the audiences' eyes!
This is a social experience for COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG ONLY.
Digital/Virtual Field Trips: performances, character interpretations, guided lessons (K-12 History & Social Sciences, African & African American Studies, Art, Music & Dance, Career & Technology Ed.), Team-building activities.
(webcast/vodcast/podcast available)
Coming Fall
2017
TBA
Ask about "Read Alouds"
& "Digital Field Trips"
CLICK HERE FOR MANY OTHER PROGRAM, WORKSHOP, LECTURE OPPORTUNITIES
(Video above: Tour Affiliate World Strides)
ALL programs are adaptable to the needs of the environment and the audience!
Delivery methods include:
Live, Digital/Online (webcast),
Tele-Conference & Pre-Recorded (podcast)
"African Legacy: Traditions through, Song, Dance & Storytelling"
Historic Triangle Tours: Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown & Yorktown
TBA
Digital Field Trip, Podcast,
Read-Aloud,
Tele-Conference, Webcast
Colonial Williamsburg Day or Night Walking
(Washington DC & Charlottesville also available)
Programs & Tours
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Day & Night-Walking:
The Nation's "Historic Triangle" Tours-
Dinning, Tavern-styled entertainment including:
Theater, singing, dancing, storytelling: ghost tales and colonial scandals
ALL-IN-ONE! (Details at bottom of page)
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"From Slavery to Freedom"
​"The Transformation of America" Tour
Revisiting the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade & colonial life in 17th, 18th, and 19th century Virginia
Interactive "edutainment" presented with song, dance & storytelling; an auxilirating and authentic-experience.
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(See bottom of page for details; examples under "MUSIC")
The "Sweetest Sound" Singers accompany in full concert upon request
"The Legacy of African- Song, Dance & Storytelling in America"
"The African Diaspora Tour"
A multi-faceted American History curriculumn approach-
SOLs & Common Core Standards focused programming engaging ALL K-12 & Higher Education audiences. Hybrid versions including interactive stories, readings & charachter interpretations.(Details at bottom of page)
Workshops, Before & After-School Programs, Summer Camps
& Clubs, STEAM & Team-Building Activities,
Class Lessons, Student
Performances & Field Trips
AFRICAN DRUMMING & DANCE
​From Slavery to Freedom
"A Society of Slaves to A Slave Society - The transformation of The American!"
A program that has been engaging audiences in the 'black experience' for the last 30 years! Designed to bring oral tradition alive to guests of Williamsburg to engage in America's Story!
This show can be eloquently be performed with or without "THE SWEETEST SOUND" throughout the characterization, interpretations & perspectives of Africans transitioning to African-Americans. During this progression Sylvia utilizes an array of unique songs, stories and interpretive monologues of prominent historic figures, such as Harriet Tubman or Phyllis Wheatley, chronologically designed from Africa in the 1500's throught the 19th century. Typically given pre- or post tour/museum visits in order to carry the audience on an experiential learning roller-coaster of colonial America.
Sylvia & "The Sweetest Sound" soothes tough historical truths & interactivity immerses audience members in the heart of the lives of those who built America, despite enduring the affects of the Trans-atlantic slave trade in the 16th-19th centuries. As a group audiences process the effects of time and evaluate the values that are still shared today. The presentation is beneficial at any museum, park, school or library.
​African Tradition through Song, Dance & Storytelling
(TOURS FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE SITE SPECIFIC IN ORDER TO ENGAGE THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY
OF THE AREA/ENVIRONMENT)
A program designed to bring the African village to life. Sylvia's method, as a Griot, utilizes the African proverb, "Each One Teach One", in order to engage audiences. Essentially facilitating the audience in delivering the performance themselves! Utilizing music, call-and-response, kinesthetic and tactile activities like drumming and dancing, Sylvia brings alive education curriculums by modeling the essence of education.
Never a dull moment, inspiring educators and students-of-ALL AGES benefit from the positivity generated in each and every performance. Typically utilized for school groups (SOLs & Common Core Initiative Standards) museums, national parks, and any other educational-entertainment venues.
*CLICK ON THE LINKS OF THE PROGRAMS BELOW TO SEE HOW YOUR STUDENTS CAN GET INVOLVED!!!
"THE SWEETEST SOUND": Concerts & Workshops
AFRICAN DRUMMING & DANCE and STEP Team or STEP AEROBICS as In-School or After-school programs, Exercise, Class Activities, Clubs
