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  • WELCOME
  • AUNTI ONI *!*
  • LOL 4 REAL!
  • WORKSHOPS
  • APPEARANCES & PODCASTS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • APPLAUSE
  • ABOUT ONI *!*

Appearances & Podcasts

Due to Covid-19

Live appearances are postponed until further notice.


Consider featuring an Oni Lasana Production virtually on Zoom for your home school, library or community events!

Scroll down to listen to storytelling podcasts.


Featured teller

January 24, 2021

Recent appearances

Podcasts & radio

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Aunti Oni has arrived!

Stories In The Valley Radio Show

Stories In The Valley Radio Show

As Miss Jojo's cousin from America, Aunti Oni retells traditional stories in her own joyful style in episodes 7, 8 & 9!


Featured on all podcast platforms.


Listen, subscribe and stay tuned for your invitation to the Story Village!

Listen here
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Stories In The Valley Radio Show

Stories In The Valley Radio Show

Stories In The Valley Radio Show

 Oni is a member of Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild.


 She was featured in this segment of Lehigh Valley Public Radio, WDIY 66.1 FM, a National Public Radio affiliated station.

Listen here
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Groundings with Brother Shomari

Stories In The Valley Radio Show

Groundings with Brother Shomari

UBUNTU SONG & STORY

October 4, 2020 @ 6PM

GROUNDINGS with Brother Shomari aims to  help spread wisdom and knowledge to our people and is grounded in the  belief that we must teach our own and control our own narrative.  

WURD RADIO 

Black. Talk. Media.

FM 96.1 - 900 AM

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Call In : 866.361.0900

Local : 215.634.8065

Learn more
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Story Story Podcast

Storytime with Shani

Groundings with Brother Shomari

A Podcast with Stories from the Best Storytellers In the World, hosted by Rachel Ann Harding is USA's premier world wide podcast for storytelling.   

January 2019 featured Oni once again, in this special edition tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.


Listen here
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Talking Stories

Storytime with Shani

Storytime with Shani

Originating from London, England, Tony Cranston also features news on festivals and stories from storytellers across the globe.

Listen to Oni Doin' Dunbar's Angelina poem  @ 45:32 in the poetry segment.  

Listen here
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Storytime with Shani

Storytime with Shani

Storytime with Shani

Based in Malaysia, Story Time with Shani is a unique variety of story, songs and experiences from around the world. 

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Listen here
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WOODS SERVICES (CANCELED DUE TO COVID)

APRIL 15, 2020 - Wednesday

Oni Lasana, The Storyteller will be telling tales from around the world, with music and songs with the residents and commuters of  Woods Services in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 

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LEHIGH VALLEY STORYTELLING GUILD Virtual Presentation 11/2020

2020 Family Series

Presents

THE MANY MUSES OF ONI LASANA

November 2020 on Zoom!

More info? Visit LVSG Website

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KIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY (canceled due to Covid)

APRIL 22, 2020 - WEDNESDAY 

Oni will share stories about how and why she is featured in the award winning audio book, 

"Hip Hop Speaks to Children."  

Also a inter-active performance workshop for a select group of students.


KIPP Philadelphia Schools is one of 31 regions of KIPP’s national, non-profit network of college preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle, and high school students. 

order book here
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Past Presentations 2019

We keep past engagements listed to allow you to view the variety of presenters.

November 23, 2018

Tobago Time! 2018-2019

Tobago Time! 2018-2019

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Bayshore at Bivalve will present Oni telling her original story "Chicken Bone Beach" about segregation in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  


Also Oni will be "Doin' Dunbar as 'Lias' Mother"  Hope you can come out for sum fo' real down home storytelling!

 

Bayshore Center

Tobago Time! 2018-2019

Tobago Time! 2018-2019

Tobago Time! 2018-2019

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Oni will be presenting LOL4REAL! on the beach at Pigeon Point, Swallows, & Store Bay. Telling stories and enjoying the heat of winter with family and friends at the Tobago Library Services.


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Seba Enrichment Academy, West Chester, PA

March 23, 2018 : Nana Oni told African tales from Liberia, Nigeria and Ghana. Aesop song and on how Anansi, the spider shared wisdom with the world. A cultural display on the art and cultural artifacts of Zimbabwe. Wakanda Forever!


Find out more
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The West Chester Community Performers

Over 30 years and "drama mama's" still going strong!

April 8, 2018 Sunday 1:30pm

Chester County OIC presents 

Lots of Jazz & Loving Langston - A Jazz Brunch & Harlem Renaissance Experience featuring WCCP presenting the poetry of literary icon, Langston Hughes.


Caribbean Connection *!*

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Auntie Oni Story Time

Librarian's Storytelling Workshop

Auntie Oni Story Time

 January 10, 17 & 31, 2018

Wednesdays : 3:30pm

Story Time & LOL4REAL!

@ 

Tobago Library Services

Scarborough, Tobago



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UBUNTU STORYTELLING

Librarian's Storytelling Workshop

Auntie Oni Story Time

February 22, 2018  

Thursday  9 -11am

Storytelling Workshop for Educators. Story coaching for the annual Student Storytelling Competition 2018. 

Oni with a few teachers who retold stories!


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Librarian's Storytelling Workshop

Librarian's Storytelling Workshop

Librarian's Storytelling Workshop

January 25, 2018 - Thursday ~ 9-11AM

UBUNTU STORYTELLING 101

Storytelling Workshop for Librarians

With organizer's; L-R 

Gaby Fernandez, History Collection, Oni, Heather Gray - Youth Librarian & Shaheeda Sylvester PR & Marketing - Tobago Library Services, Scarborough Main Branch, Tobago

WORK & PLAY SHOPS
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AUGUST 31, 2017 - THURS. 3-6PM CITY OF PHILADELPHIA'S ARTS & EDUCATORS EXHIBITION

OCTOBER 5, 2017 - THURS. 7 - 9pm MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE, DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 - SAT. 2PM 25th ANNUAL NEW JERSEY NETWORK STORYTELLING FESTIVAL

Calling all Program Directors! Educator! & School Assembly planners! 

Visit ONI LASANA PRODUCTIONS exhibition booth at the City of Philadelphia's Arts & Educators Creative Economy Expo @ The Kimmel Center of the Performing Arts in downtown Philadelphia!


Oni will be live and in person sharing information on her latest program offerings & pre

Calling all Program Directors! Educator! & School Assembly planners! 

Visit ONI LASANA PRODUCTIONS exhibition booth at the City of Philadelphia's Arts & Educators Creative Economy Expo @ The Kimmel Center of the Performing Arts in downtown Philadelphia!


Oni will be live and in person sharing information on her latest program offerings & presentations for youth and adults...you won't want to miss out on adding a Oni Lasana Production to your enrichment resources for your school, organization & community!


Visit www.CreativePhl.org 

for more info.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 - SAT. 2PM 25th ANNUAL NEW JERSEY NETWORK STORYTELLING FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 5, 2017 - THURS. 7 - 9pm MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE, DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 - SAT. 2PM 25th ANNUAL NEW JERSEY NETWORK STORYTELLING FESTIVAL

ONI LASANA was a featured teller for the 4th year. She presented stories and songs  from her "DOWN ON THE FARM WITH GRANNY GOOSE" program.



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OCTOBER 5, 2017 - THURS. 7 - 9pm MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE, DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

OCTOBER 5, 2017 - THURS. 7 - 9pm MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE, DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

OCTOBER 5, 2017 - THURS. 7 - 9pm MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE, DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Playwright, poet and storyteller Oni Lasana performs in DOIN' DUNBAR AS 'LIAS' MOTHER featuring the dialect poetry of African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Mercer Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian, welcomed Oni  to present in the museum's prestigious "Twilight Tales" series. Tailored  to the setting, and illustra

Playwright, poet and storyteller Oni Lasana performs in DOIN' DUNBAR AS 'LIAS' MOTHER featuring the dialect poetry of African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Mercer Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian, welcomed Oni  to present in the museum's prestigious "Twilight Tales" series. Tailored  to the setting, and illustrated with materials from the Mercer collection, her entertaining program offers a theatrical portrayal of Dunbar’s poems. 


 (View Full Event Description Here: 

Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle










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LOL4REAL*!*

Performances & Workshops

Performances & Workshops

Oni showing off her well earned happy laugh lines!

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Performances & Workshops

Performances & Workshops

Performances & Workshops

Tobago Library Services

Scarborough, Tobago

More Reviews here
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Performance Poet

Performances & Workshops

Performance Poet

Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz

Four Woman & Tommorrow's Girls

Moonstone Production, Philadelphia

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