Amazing journeys Following the North Star on The Underground Railroad



Friends of Negro Spirituals, a Bay Area leader in preserving the Negro Spirituals heritage and its history through educating the public, will join with the San Francisco Main Public Library to present an exciting educational forum, Amazing journeys: Following the North Star on The Underground Railroad.

Sunday, November 13, 2005
2: 30 PM - 4:30 PM
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA in the Koret Auditorium [Lower level]
Civic Center BART

Professor and professional musician Vulindlela Wobogo and the courageous Underground Railroad conductor, Harriet Tubman, portrayed by noted performance artist and professional storyteller Mary J. Kelly, will discuss and engage the audience in learning about and experiencing the Spirituals, slaves seeking freedom, stations, conductors, and freedom loving people - The Friend of a Friend - that historians call The Underground Railroad.

Wobogo is a former Professor of African-American Music and History at San Francisco State University and an author and Mary J. Kelly, a published playwright and a highly qualified Theatre Arts and Communication Consultant.

The public and especially children are invited.





Amazing journeys Following the North Star on The Underground Railroad