Welcome to adventures in story village
Spoken Word Songs, Bass & Beats
Independently produced original prose set to the beats of Samori Coles of lil' drummaboy music of Philadelphia, Soundboy of Coatesville, PA, Dennis Thompson of Jamaica & Oni Lasana on bass guitar.
Available for download on ALL digital music platform.
Furious Flower Poetry Center
Featured poet for the Pulitzer Prize-nominated and Emmy award-winning poet Lucille Clifton Conference & Festival 2009 at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
In The Sanctuary
Featured Poet
Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Celebration of Black Writers, 2015
Ground Zero Juke Joint
Oni graced the mic at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After diggin' Oni's groove, Big T from The Family Band backed Oni up on guitar & demanded she stay on stage to belt out the blues!
The story "Baptized By The Blues" will be released in "Hindsight" a anthology of short stories by Toho Publishing House of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In flight & soaring!
Blues Symposium
Oni with the legendary Ironing Board Sam on right. (San plays his keyboards on top a Ironing board) and jammed with Oni!!!! Oh what a day!
Tougaloo University, Jackson, Mississippi
"For Colored Girls
On the ground breaking choreo-poem, movie, play recording and book by Ntozake Shange.
Celebration of Life - Sister Circle
For Woman Collective Celebration - Philadelphia
Black Writer's Tribute
Featured poet at Art Sanctuary - Tribute Celebration to Nikki Giovanni, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania