
70 Years and Beyond
A Fun, Nostalgic Trip from the 1950s to Today
Wambui Bahati walks onstage carrying a small vintage suitcase—and inside it is more than seventy years of memories.
One by one, familiar objects emerge: a No. 2 pencil, a report card, white gloves, a recipe card, a rotary telephone, a 45 record, and even the television remote control children once had to become. Each object opens the door to another lively scene as Wambui transforms into the teachers, mothers, teenagers, gas-station attendants, television announcers, and unforgettable characters who helped shape everyday life from the 1950s to today.
This is not a lecture. It is a warm, funny, highly interactive theatrical experience in which the audience becomes part of the show—calling out favorite songs, remembering family cars, comparing Sunday dinners, revisiting television programs, and sharing ordinary childhood memories that should never be forgotten.
With humor, music, storytelling, character work, and audience participation, Broadway veteran Wambui Bahati celebrates how much the world has changed without pretending everything was better in the past. The result is an experience filled with laughter, recognition, conversation, and connection across generations.
Available in flexible 45-, 60-, and 75-minute formats, 70 Years and Beyond is ideal for conferences, association events, senior and active-aging audiences, community celebrations, libraries, cultural organizations, and intergenerational programs.
The audience doesn’t simply watch the journey. They help unpack the suitcase.
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Some presentations inform.
70 Years and Beyond transports.
70 Years and Beyond
A Fun, Nostalgic Trip from the 1950s to Today
Wambui Bahati walks onstage carrying a small vintage suitcase—and inside it is more than seventy years of memories.
One by one, familiar objects emerge: a No. 2 pencil, a report card, white gloves, a recipe card, a rotary telephone, a 45 record, and even the television remote control children once had to become. Each object opens the door to another lively scene as Wambui transforms into the teachers, mothers, teenagers, gas-station attendants, television announcers, and unforgettable characters who helped shape everyday life from the 1950s to today.
This is not a lecture. It is a warm, funny, highly interactive theatrical experience in which the audience becomes part of the show—calling out favorite songs, remembering family cars, comparing Sunday dinners, revisiting television programs, and sharing ordinary childhood memories that should never be forgotten.
With humor, music, storytelling, character work, and audience participation, Broadway veteran Wambui Bahati celebrates how much the world has changed without pretending everything was better in the past. The result is an experience filled with laughter, recognition, conversation, and connection across generations.
Available in flexible 45-, 60-, and 75-minute formats, 70 Years and Beyond is ideal for conferences, association events, senior and active-aging audiences, community celebrations, libraries, cultural organizations, and intergenerational programs.
The audience doesn’t simply watch the journey. They help unpack the suitcase.
Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1950, Wambui lived this history before she learned to tell it. Audiences laugh, nod, sometimes tear up — and leave wanting to share their own stories.
Professional, reliable, and ready to create memories your event team will love.
PROGRAM 1:
"70 YEARS AND BEYOND"
The full journey through the 1950s, '60s, '70s & '80s. This is the one that does everything — nostalgia, humor, heart, history. Perfect for all your venues.
PROGRAM 2:
"AGING OUT LOUD"
Aging Out Loud is not a program about getting old. It is a program about getting bold. With humor, honesty, faith, and hard-won wisdom, Wambui Bahati shares her journey from deep struggle to renewed purpose — including the moments when life seemed to say, “There is no way out,” and the surprising turns that reminded her that the story was not over.
PROGRAM 3:
"STEP AWAY FROM THE WORLD"
We live in a world that never stops. The news is always on. The phone is always buzzing. The to-do list never ends. Something is always demanding our attention, our energy, our worry. And somewhere along the way, we forgot something our grandmothers knew instinctively: that the best way to quiet a loud world is to pick up something beautiful — and make it.
In "Step Away from the World", Wambui Bahati — storyteller, actress, speaker, and loom knitting enthusiast with more than 40,000 followers on her crafting YouTube channel — shares her personal journey into the meditative, joyful, and surprisingly nostalgic world of crafting.
PROGRAM 4:
"I AM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE"
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PROGRAM 5:
"BALANCING ACT -THE MUSICAL"
How mental illness stole her life and how she took her life back!