1-Diplomatic Immunities- Magnetic North Theatre Festival
2-Ghettostocracy at Mother Tongue Books
3- Ghettostocracy at Rideau Hall- From Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor
General of Canada
1-Diplomatic Immunities
For the next 2 weeks Oni will be a part of a dynamic multimedia research team in the Magnetic North Theater Festival in Ottawa. She was casted in a play called Diplomatic Immunities where she put her journalism, poetry, badminton, history, and sex ed acumen to use in the most interesting ways!
"With the reality TV craze, Magnetic North Theater Festival brings ‘reality theater’ to Ottawa, Canada with Diplomatic Immunities: The End. Local artists Oni the Haitian Sensation and Helen Choi, along with a research team, will be deployed in Ottawa on June 3-10 to scour the city for meaningful encounters, chat things up, knock on doors, check out the décor, eat some food, take some pictures and make new friends. After, Darren O’Donnell’s Mammalian Diving Reflex will create a performance piece for you to be able to get up close and personal June 13-16 with Ottawa and the people."
"By the end of the evening, there was a palpable sense of community in the room. The 'social acupuncture' that O’Donnell claims his kind of theatre creates had achieved its desired result. You left the theatre thinking and feeling differently than when you went in and - tell the truth - how often does that happen?"
– Richard Ouzounian, The Toronto Star
Diplomatic Immunities by Mammalian Diving Reflex of Toronto is a multimedia interactive ensemble piece created from the encounters between a company of research artists and the inhabitants of a city, fostering these encounters to build meaningful relationships, and finally presenting the company’s findings to an audience. Conceived and directed by Darren O’Donnell, co-directed by Rebecca Picherack and produced by Naomi Campbell.
"O’Donnell's at the forefront of the city’s avant garde movement. Translation: he experiments. His plays… are a wild mixture of philosophy, rant, cant, and vaudeville… they make you sit up and think, laugh, and then think some more."
- Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine
Oni the Haitian Sensation was voted Ottawa’s favourite full time writer/poet (Ottawa Xpress Arts Weekly) and is an internationally recognized slam poet, author, and arts educator. Her book Ghettostocracy is a “Book of the Year” in The Globe and Mail. Oni The Haitian Sensation has performed for audiences in Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S.. She directed Canada’s first National Poetry Slam, the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics.
Helen Choi has acted in The Vagina Monologues, and gets involved with a lot of advocacy work in international development and poverty, race, and gender equality issues. She is a media specialist who has worked for MBC television in Korea, and interned at Flow radio in Toronto and the A-Channel in Ottawa. She’s one feisty firecracker!
The Magnetic North Theatre Festival will be in Ottawa June 6 – 16, 2007.
Diplomatic Immunities: The End
Mammalian Diving Reflex from Toronto, ON
June 13-16
* Showcases the interaction between a company of research artists and the inhabitants of a city
* Local artists Oni the Haitian Sensation and Helen Choi will be members of the research team
* Oni the Haitian Sensation was voted Ottawa's favourite full time writer/poet
(Ottawa Xpress Arts Weekly) and is an internationally recognized slam poet, author, and arts educator.
* Darren O'Donnell is a novelist, essayist, playwright, director, designer, actor and artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex.
Check out the full Festival program at www.magneticnorthfestival.ca
2-Ghettostocracy at Mother Tongue Books
Ghettostocracy will be at Mother Tongue Books in Ottawa on June 21-007 at 7pm.
Mother Tongue Books/Femmes de parole
1067 Bank Street
Ottawa ON CANADA K1S 3W9
Tel./Tél: (613) 730-2346
Fax/Télec: (613) 730-2347
3- Ghettostocracy at Rideau Hall
Ghettostocracy has received a personal invitation to launch at Rideau Hall date TBA from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada
To book Oni the Haitian Sensation for a performance, workshop, panel discussion or interview ,
Please contact mesooni@yahoo.com
If you have not gotten your copy of Ghettostocracy, get yours today!
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