🕷️ Black Futures + Ananse Tales: Diasporic Storytelling in Motion 🕷️
Akofena Afro-Theatre Society is proud to collaborate with the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), UBC on Black Futures + Ananse Tales: Diasporic Storytelling in Motion — a vibrant celebration of African and diasporic storytelling through performance.
Ananse the Spider is more than a trickster. He is a cultural archivist, a philosopher of survival, and a master weaver of stories that have travelled across Africa and the Black diaspora for generations. In this event, Ananse tales are activated through movement, music, voice, and embodied storytelling — reminding us that these stories are not relics of the past, but living knowledge systems.
This collaboration brings together shared commitments to:
✨ African and diasporic storytelling
✨ Performance as cultural memory
✨ Tradition reimagined for contemporary and future Black worlds
For Akofena, this moment affirms storytelling as both heritage and innovation — where ancestral wisdom meets creative futures.
Venue: Museum of Anthropology, UBC, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada.
Date/Time: February 5, 2026/ 7:00 pm prompt.
🤝 Presented in collaboration with Akofena Afro-Theatre Society
🔗 Learn more: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/black-futures-ananse-tales-diasporic-storytelling-in-motion/