Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride.
Maud Dinand and Onni Johnson will be featured guests on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday April 2nd,2025 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant.
Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, actor, filmmaker and along with If These Walls Could Talk she hosts TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community.
Tym Moss is a popular NYC singer, actor, and radio/tv host who recently starred in the hit indie film “JUNK” to critical acclaim.
Maud Dinand (Trojan Women Project’s member and Director of Outreach) has many years of experience as a project manager in the cultural, artistic and commercial fields as well as at the United Nations. She worked in France, the US, Kosovo, Togo and other countries. In the early 80s she assisted founder and producer Ellen Stewart at La MaMa ETC. She is also the director of International Outreach for the European theatre production company Qendra Multimedia, based in Kosovo, for which she initiated the co-production “Balkan Bordello” with La MaMa/NY, Atelje 212 theatre/Belgrade and My Balkans foundation/NY and Belgrade.
Onni Johnson (Trojan Women Project’s founder – Project Director/Writer) is also a performer and a teacher. She has been in love with Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story “SUR” since 1982. She has worked on Off and Off-Off Broadway in New York City, as well as internationally in over 30 countries since the 70s as an original member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Company. Since 2014, she is the Project Director of The Trojan Women Project (www.thetrojanwomenproject.org ) establishing residencies, productions and workshops in Guatemala, Cambodia, Kosovo and workshops with Greece, Kenya and Italy. She taught theater in the Navajo reservation in Arizona, at Princeton University and co-created the High School for Contemporary Arts in the Bronx.
SUR
A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910
The new sensory experience of a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Devised by The Trojan Women Project Collective
Presented by La MaMa ETC @ The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street New York 10003 https://www.lamama.org/sur/
Saturday March 29th to Sunday April 6th 2025
Published in the New Yorker Magazine in 1982, Science Fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s short novel “SUR” follows the expedition of nine women who, in 1909, travel in secret to Antarctica.
They hire a ship, set up camp on the ice, haul supplies through blizzards, fight snow-blindness, and eventually reach the South Pole a year before its “discovery” by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his all-male crew.
After six months on the ice, the women return to their homes, leaving behind no footprints, no flags, no claims. Their journey remains a secret.
“SUR” is being devised by a collective of culturally and artistically diverse women:
Rasheedat Badejo, Gabriel Berry, Mattie Barber-Bockelman, Marina Celander, Katherine Paola De La Cruz, Maud Dinand, Sara Galassini, Berit Johnson, Megan Paradis Hanley, Allison Hiroto, Kim Ima, Onni Johnson, Leah Ogawa, Amanda Reynoso, Erato Tzavara, Tuce Yasak, Qingan Zhang.
The Ellen Stewart Theater will be transformed into a living breathing world of icebergs, glaciers, blizzards, and horizonless expanses that ultimately disappear before our eyes.
“SUR” will offer 7 performances from Saturday March 29th to Sunday April 6th.
On Thursday April 3rd and Friday April 4th, the show will be followed by a discussion with national and international guests live and on zoom: …..
– Thu. April 3th: “WOMEN ON ICE ” with:
Elizabeth Leane – Professor of Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania – Author of “South Pole Nature and Culture”,
Leilani Raashida Henry – Author of “The Call of Antarctica” telling the story of her father George Gibbs Jr. who, in November 1939 became the first person of African descent to go to Antarctica,
Madeline Blount – Participant to a Polar Steam’s Antarctic Artists and Writers program and recently back from her expedition.
– Fri. April 4th: “ART ON ICE” with:
Dr. Jane Messer and Dr. Michelle Hamadache, Professors at Macquarie University in Australia – Author of “ Writing on Ice – an ecofeminist conversation on Ursula K. Le Guin’s SUR and the fate of Antarctica.”
Stephanie Krzywonos, Professor at the University of Iowa – Author of the essay “Antarctica The Women” and crafting her first book, “Ice Folx”.
Maud Dinand- Director of Outreach for the Trojan Women Project –
Ph: 917-863-4120
email: maudinand2@gmail.org.
Watch Maud Dinand and Onni Johnson on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Youtube here:
