Come and join us!
For our 3rd installment of our
ONYX CINEMA Night & an Artist Talk series
Sunday FEBRUARY 24th
starting at 6pm
starting at 6pm
Location: OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON - Dundas & University
The Cover is FREE
&
Theme of the night is "Being a 'Black' Artist in Toronto"
& we will be having an interactive presentation with Kemba King
with special performances by storytellers Moyo Mutamba and ANIA SOUL
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About our February 24th Featured Artist
Kemba King is a graduated from York university (Toronto) with a double honors in law and society and sociology. she has worked as a peer counselor and co-coordinator at a gender advocacy centre (the centre for women and transpeople at york u). kemba has also programmed and hosted womyn’s word (a womanist spoken word radio show on CHRY radio). kemba also co-directed the medina collective which was a grassroots hiphop feminist collective. she is a sacred leader with sacred women’s centres international. kemba is a freelance workshop facilitator and consultant. she has written for the blog genders across borders and has her own wordpress blog entitled in search of my mothers’ tongues. she is a part of the multi-arts collective T-Dot Renaissance and co-hosts a weekly social justice radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM entitled the Vibe Collective.
· insearchofmymotherstongues.wordpress.com
Featured Performers of the Night
Moyo Rainos Mutamba is a multi-disciplinary artist, community learning facilitator, speaker, researcher and PhD student at the University of Toronto. He is a musician, dancer and storyteller. His music is centered around Mbira, an instrument that has been played in Zimbabwe for hundreds of years. Mbira's dissonant cacophonic sound is played in cascading rhythmic patterns for uplifting secular occasions, as well as for spiritual ceremony and ritual. Mbira music is trance inducing, lending itself to contemplative and meditative moments. He tells Zimbabwean based historical stories and folk tales. Storytelling and song have been a part of Mutamba’s life since he was a child in a small village in Zimbabwe where he grew up. His love for storytelling was deepened by his large family for whom telling stories was a ritual every night -- gathered around burning fire under the watching eye of the moon. To this day he draws upon stories that his grandmother, sisters, mother and other relatives inherited from his ancestors. He has told stories in schools, community centres, festivals, healing circles and around fires. Moyo performs with the Mbira band Nhapitapi, but can also be seen performing solo, weaving mbira tunes with ancestrally inspired vocal chants and lyrics. He has performed at major festivals in Canada such as Afro-fest in Toronto among others. He has also performed in Canada, the US and Zimbabwe.
Sharing a story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWwEf57QHqk
Ania Soul delivers on the promise of her name. A compelling and versatile artist, she re-defines soul music with haunting vocals and an unforgettable vibrato that will shake you to your bones. She is a tried and true performer, having started out in the church as a youth singing lead in a gospel choir called Triumphant Sound to fronting her own roots rock reggae band called Laminar Flow as she graduated from a Jazz vocal program in Edmonton. Moving to Toronto to see what the East had in store, her life experiences nurtured and matured her sound into a remarkable mosaic of genres she has been influenced by since she was a little girl. Now getting grown, her Sade Lauryn Hill Bob Marley vibe that haunts her music style is beautiful but still she is set apart and creates her own platform unique to herself. She is continuing her soul journey with unstoppable force as she releases her debut single in spring 2010 and she is planing on release some more material really soon.
Interesting fact: Her newest branding logo was created by OSO's very own Quentin Vercetty. Check it out in her special EPK video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ETSdGV7mDS4
NEXT & LAST CINEMA NIGHT
March 3rd
With 'Mark "Kurupt" Stoddart (Artist\Designer\Entrepreneur\ LIWI)
Theme: Not forgetting your Roots\Routes
Special Performance by Esie Mensah & Kobena Aquaa-Harrison
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About
Onyx Cinema Series is
a chance for the public, most specifically young people to come and
watch films that are focused on artist(s) and artisan(s) of the African
diaspora and their work. These series of nights will also be
complimented with a discussion or activity with renown Artists that will
shed light on their own stories and their correlation to the theme of
the night as well as the featured film and the nights will be seasoned
with some engaging live performances.
About
The Onyx Society at OCADU (OSO) is
a student run organization first conceived in 2010. The organizations
purpose is to provide a sense of community, and support network for
students of African descent as well as those interested in being
members. Within OSO , students will have the ability to easily network
and collaborate with those in other disciplines at the University. We
also have another aspect called OSO Collective which extends to the
community outside of the University like other collaborators, alumni and
people who are interested in supporting the arts who wish to contribute
to the cause.
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