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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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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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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
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
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.
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
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!
Tobago Time! 2018-2019
Tobago Time! 2018-2019
Tobago Time! 2018-2019
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle
LOL4REAL*!*
Performances & Workshops
Performances & Workshops
Oni showing off her well earned happy laugh lines!
Performances & Workshops
Performances & Workshops
Performances & Workshops
Tobago Library Services
Scarborough, Tobago
Performance Poet
Performances & Workshops
Performance Poet
Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz
Four Woman & Tommorrow's Girls
Moonstone Production, Philadelphia