BGP Media Announcement
ahdri zhina mandiela at The AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival
Friday August 22nd - Sunday August 27th, 2006
Featuring:
ahdri zhina mandiela: dubb artist, artistic director, filmmaker
Austin Clark: Noted author and 2002 Giller Prize Award winner
Widely known as director and poet/performer, mandiela has been working in the
Canadian arts scene since the late 70's - both independently and with companies
like Black Theatre Canada, Theatre Fountainhead, Canstage Theatre, Young
Peoples Theatre, Company of Sirens, Theatre in the Rough and Black Theatre
Workshop.
mandiela has performed, lectured, and directed for the theatre stage in several
countries; while her poetry and other writing appear in texts, magazines, and
anthologies globally. Her solo publications with Sistervision Press,
Speshal Rikwes (1985) and the Dub Theatre Work, Dark Diaspora in Dub (1991)
have been distributed widely, and both feature in several post-secondary
curriculum courses.
Being a multi-disciplined artist, mandiela's independent works include dance
choreographies; recordings such as step/into my head (1995), barefoot &
black (1993), and the debut cassette first & last (1986); video shorts, and
the seminal independent film, on/black/stage/women which premiered on Canada's
BRAVO! tv network in winter 1998 for a five-year television run. This year she
was awarded a DORA award for 'Mentorship in Theatre' - her'raiz'n the sun'
workshop which has produced many, many notable names in theatre and film such
as Trey Anthony, Djanet Sears and Satori Shakoor.
ahdri will be appearing at several events for the AfriCanadian Playwrights
Festival this year as part of the 'Play of the Day' series conducting a reading
of her new work on Thursday August 24th at 2:30pm entitled 'Who Knew Grannie'
and is also directing two plays on Sunday August 27th at 3pm both at the Helen
Gardiner Phelan Playhouse at UFT.
For media interviews and/or to request a media package on ahdri zhina
mandiela highlighting her theatrical achievements and film background please
contact:
Cheryl McKenzie
Director Of Publicity and Media Communications
416.358.0744
cheryl@britgirlproductions.com