Derek Burrows This is Me

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1. 1. Ashland Tab,Storytelling at Ashland High School

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   Published on: 3/7/2000   Last Visited: 10/17/2007

   When professional storyteller Derek Burrows was growing up in the Bahamas, there was no television. In some homes, like that of his grandparents, there was no electricity.
   
   There was only Kerosene lamp light, and Bunday.
   
   "When I was growing up in the Bahamas people liked to talk, a lot. They liked to express things in great detail with a lot of flamboyancy," said Burrows, 47.
   ...
   Burrows, who now lives in Jamaica Plain and tours the country telling stories and playing music, brought that oral tradition to Ashland High School Friday morning, along with his conch shells, acoustic guitar and mbira - a hollowed out calabash gourd topped by a piece of wood and metal prongs.
   
   "Bunday," Burrows said to the teen-age audience, just a whisper above the sing-song notes of his mbira.
   
   "Bunday," they replied. And he knew he had them.
   
   He had them with stories about the first time he saw snow ...
   
   "I was 21 when I first saw snow," said Burrows, who was then a music student at Berkeley College of Music in Boston.

2. 2. www.donnyjohnson.net

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   Published on: 3/7/2008   Last Visited: 6/5/2008

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3. 3. Derek Burrows Storyteller/Tradition bearer

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   Published on: 7/27/2006   Last Visited: 10/17/2007

   Derek presents a new program of stories and workshops designed to encourage us to examine the way we look at and approach others in our world. Using images from early photography, the Daguerreotype, essays from Frederick Douglass and other writings on race and ethnicity, Derek reflects on how these images from the past dislocate our own present presumptions about the representation of race