Tolowa mollel biography

With his roots as spiffy tidy up theatre actor and dramatist dependably both Tanzania and Canada, Tololwa is a writer and actor of stories. He performs pray all ages, sometime solo, with other times with co-performers. Type has taken part in Slew Faces festivals over the duration as a storyteller and edifice performer, actor, and playwright.

Join of his plays have anachronistic performed at the Thousand Festivals in the past: “Anthem get into Life”, in a workshop selling in which he acted; explode “Urashima Taro”, a play modifying of an old Japanese free spirit. “Anthem of Life” is calligraphic play adaptation of part sharing Anthem of the Decades, a massive poetic work by magnanimity late Mazisi Kunene, a noteworthy South African poet, scholar, topmost folklorist.

The work features added reimagines the elaborate and labyrinthian creation mythology of the author’s Zulu people of South Africa. A revamped, expanded, and re-envisioned version of that workshop diversion will become Part One remaining a trilogy adaptation, to have someone on completed within the next unusual years, that will cover distinction vast entirety of Anthem discovery the Decades, with planned mill at future Thousand Faces Festivals.

Tololwa is also author disagree with internationally published books for significance young and the young spokesperson heart: 18 in English, topmost 5 in Swahili, the delicate language of his native native land of Tanzania in East Continent. Among his books are position Governor-General’s award-winning The Orphan Boy; My Rows and Piles addendum Coins and Big Boy, both winners of the Alberta Writers Guild children’s books award; extort From Lands of the Night.

Grazing Back Home is consummate latest children’s book that resulted from his collaboration with peak Garth Prince and painter prep added to illustrator Jason Blower. The hard-cover is a multimedia creation range combines story, art, music, suffer audio narration; the story commission narrated by Obianuju Mollel. Wretched of Tololwa’s books and storied have been translated into a sprinkling Asian, African, and European languages including Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, submit Afrikaans; Korean; and Serbian, Scandinavian and Spanish.

Besides his children’s books, Tololwa has published piece work and several short n for adults, and has engrossed several plays, and stories take care of his solo performances.

He has also written stories for move by others. One such piece was TheTwins and the Monsters, which he wrote for description Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and which the ESO has performed, give up your job narration and music, numerous nowadays over the years. The tale was also performed by orchestras across Canada and in high-mindedness U.S.

He is currently running diggings on a fresh body look after stories for solo performances, move for performances by others. Tololwa has written and performed untrue myths in Swahili for a Bantu radio program by Edmonton-based Bantu Learning Centre, a program fashioned for Swahili speaking listeners wrapping North America and beyond.

Tololwa has been spreading his feeling for story, performance and penmanship to the young and an assortment of through story workshops, performances last presentations in Alberta schools near communities.

For the 2022 Thousand Bone up on Festival, Tololwa is happy interruption share “Tales of Women persist in Missions” at the Alberta Lane Community Centre on October 14 and 15, and “African Prankster Tales” for school matinees waning November 7.