Al Bostick
Basically Bostick Projects, Inc.

Booking Information
Al Bostick
2401 W. I-44 Service Rd., Suite 209 Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Email: aesoptells@aol.com
405.521.8040
405.848.6466

Technical Requirements
All performances are designed to fit in flexible venues from classroom, cafetoriums, gymatoriums, churches, lecture halls to formal theatrical settings. Lighting requirements may be designed for a particular venue.

• Theatrical: Of Bass Reeves, Bill Pickett & Buffalo Soldiers…
  One wooden bench no arms/or two chairs One table (4X5) for props
  One cd/tape player for sound cues
  4 Bottles of water/ chilled
• Theatrical: Anansi the Spider
  One table (4x5) for props
  One cd/tape player for sound cues
  4 Bottles of water/ chilled
• Storytelling: Fabulous Fibs, Fables & Folklore…
  One chair, no arms, small table for props and instruments
  2 Bottles of water/chilled
• Poetry: Black Voices…
  1 to 4 stools, 2 tall, 2 slightly shorter
  2 to 8 Bottles of water

Availability
Year round

Fees

• Theatrical: Of Bass Reeves,Bill Pickett & Buffalo Soldiers…(1 Hour) - $850 to $1300(Outside OKC)
• Theatrical: Anansi the Spider ( 1 Hr) - $850 to $1300(Outside OKC)
• Storytelling:Fabulous Fibs, Fables & Folklore…(30 min. to full evening 1 to 1:45) - $750 to $1000(Outside OKC)
• Black Voices… (45 min. to full 1:45 min.) - $850-1500 (Outside OKC)
  

Bio
Master storyteller, griot, Renaissance man, Al Bostick present and lead performances that delight, teach, and stimulate the mind, body and spirit. Travel to the past with Of Bass Reeves, Bill Pickett & Buffalo Soldiers and witness the feats and exploits of Black cowboys, lawmen and Buffalo Soldiers that worked and help establish the Oklahoma Territory.

Listen to the sounds of the jungle, listen to the beat of the drum, follow the African Trickster, arachnid, Anansi the Spider, as he dupes the larger animals…in Anansi…The Spider. Follow the wit wisdom and laughter of  Africans and African-American slaves in Fabulous Fibs, Fables & Folklore…revel in the folklore and proverbs and melodies that grew out of the misery of slavery and rose to the triumph of spiritual experience of Black life and attitude!

Take the A-Train and witness the Harlem Renaissance through the voices of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar and many others who were and are the talented Tenth! See the foundation they laid for the spoken word in Black Voices… done against a background of Black visual art! Book now and experience the artistry of Basically Bostick Projects.