Speaking & Moderating

Storyteller, activist, lawyer, artist, campaigner, and CEO, Liana Nanang, talks to Alvin Carpio about social justice. She shares the story of her journey, how she has helped achieved change, the challenges she faced, and the methods and skills she used. Support us. Help achieve the mission of training the next generation of Martin Luther Kings. Become a patron: https://schoolofsocialjustice.com/supporters/. ==== Biography: Liana Nanang is a multidisciplinary storyteller with Black-Bermudian, Iban-Malaysian and British parentage. Liana’s work as a writer, sculptor, painter, and performer navigates race, nationality, trauma, resilience, spirituality, colonialism and what it means to be a neurodivergent, Black Indigenous Woman of Colour in a world that demands her assimilation and silence. She is the founder and CEO of Unstoried, which produces films and books that educate, entertain and empower People of the Global Majority (PGM aka People of Colour). Unstoried is a for-good, for-profit entity that will support free healing centres for PGM as they recover from transgenerational and racial trauma. Liana obtained her law degree from University College, London with a final year focus in Human Rights Law. After being admitted as an attorney to the New York Bar, she studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and T. Schreiber Studio. Liana’s book Menoa: Ancestral Healing for Trauma, Addiction and Fractured Minds will be published internationally in February 2024. She won Best Columnist in the 2017 Best of Bermuda Awards for her articles examining culture, race and politics and her mental health-focused blog The Year of Celebration. As a mental health advocate, Liana has been interviewed by BBC Breakfast in the UK, BBC World News, and for Politica’s Facing Mental Health series. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Charman Prize at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art (2019, 2021), where she won Best Use of Materials (2021), in the 2022 Bermuda National Gallery Biennial and in the Bermuda Society of Arts Exhibition on Emancipation (2020). Liana is the former Public Relations Officer of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party and managed their 2017 General Election campaign resulting in an historic landslide victory. She is also the former Special Advisor to the Premier of Bermuda.

Unchained on the Rock's sizzle reel features clips from various presentations over the last two years. Unchained on the Rock is a Bermuda-based initiative founded by husband and wife team Ajala and Liana Nanang Omodele whose purpose is to uncover the hidden history of Bermuda. We are storytellers who draw on the oral tradition of jalis (whom the French misnamed “griots”). We channel our Ancestors and our programming is designed to show respect and reverence for their sacrifices and resistance. We offer dynamic talks, tours, workshops, and educational curriculum and corporate consulting. We periodically host ticketed events and tours. Visit www.unchainedontherock.com for more information. Shot and edited by @DionTheCreative

Liana Nanang Omodele stops by to discuss the importance of black history in Bermuda.

Liana Hall - "The Alphabet Years - How the Year of Art Saved My Life" PechaKucha Bermuda Volume 26 at Spinning Wheel Night Club May 30, 2019 Video by Lamone Woods of Crimson Multimedia

Back in August 2021 we held a very special Panel Discussion entitled A Visible Minority: Asian Diasporas in Bermuda. This rich discussion, with panelists Prof. Anthony Ocampo, Gracie Edwards, Liana Nanang and Dani Pen dove into the deep and rich topic of what it means to be Asian in Bermuda - and how do these identities fit within the larger conversation over Asian identity around the world. We had technical issues at the time and could only post a shortened version of this conversation at the time - but please find here a recording of the conversation in full.

Featuring eight of the poets who participated in Dr. Richard Georges’ 2022 Writer in Residence workshop: Sharla-Cavonne Bean, Liana Nanang, Ajala Omodele, Andrea Ottley, B. Candace Ray and Alan C. Smith.

Bermuda National Heroes: Bermuda National Heroes: Liana Hall offers a 2020 National Heroes Day tribute to Dame Lois Browne-Evans on the topic of Protecting Our Most Vulnerable.

Ajala Omodele and Liana Nanang stop by to discuss the history of our last names.