For the third installation of The Real Tea Series GRIOTS, host Carlita brings Jasz Diop, the founder of Tackussanu Senegal, to dive into Senegalese culture and crafts. Through storytelling and crafting, participants will learn the historical and cultural significance of Senegalese Wolof weavers.
✔ Free Community Event | ✔ Cultural Storytelling | ✔ Craft Demonstrations | ✔ Community Conversation
The Real Tea Series: GRIOT is a year-long cultural storytelling experience curated and hosted by Carlita Scarboro-Vazquez through CVaz Designs. Inspired by the West African tradition of the griot—the keeper of memory, history, and community—the series explores how stories are preserved and reimagined through art, engineering, technology, design, wellness, and cultural exchange. It documents and celebrates the wisdom, experiences, and journeys of contemporary changemakers who are shaping our communities and creating living history.
The project transforms the library into a living archive where immersive installations, projection mapping, workshops, artist talks, and community collaborations merge the past, present, and future. As archives disappear and stories go untold, we gather to preserve knowledge through conversation, connection, and community. Through interdisciplinary experiences, The Real Tea highlights how innovation and creativity can coexist as tools for storytelling, empowerment, and collective memory.
Check out all the fun everyone had during the previous Griot, opens a new window.
About the Host
Carlita Scarboro-Vazquez is an Atlanta-based mixed media artist, educator, and creative technologist whose work bridges visual storytelling, digital media, installation art, coding, projection mapping, and cultural memory. She is the founder of CVaz Designs and STEAM by CVAZ, where she integrates art, engineering, and technology into community-centered educational experiences. Read more about Carlita Scarboro-Vazquez here, opens a new window.
Connect with Carlita and The Real Tea Series on Instagram at @c_u_sunshine, her website at cvazdesigns.com, Linktree @cvazart, or email at steambycvaz@gmail.com, opens a new window.
Featured GRIOT
Jasz Diop is the founder of Tackussanu Senegal, a brand that produces handwoven products created from the traditional coiling techniques of Wolof weavers in rural Senegal. The brand collaborates directly with weavers in Senegal to ensure quality, integrity, and fairness are the focus from production to customer.
Connect with Jasz through her website tackussanusenegal.com, opens a new window, on Instagram @tackussanu_senegal, opens a new window and Facebook as tackussanu_senegal, opens a new window, or email at info@tackussanu.com, opens a new window.
Blog post by Nechelle Roberts, Library Associate & Vikki Walters, Librarian Principal
For information about this program, the Central Artist Corner residency program, and adult programming at Central Library, email Vikki Walters at vikki.walters@fultoncountyga.gov, opens a new window.
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