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Friday, August 14, 2009
Omarosa talks about entering seminary
Omarosa Manigault Stallworth is a person who knows herself and knows how the public perceives her.
She is completely comfortable calling herself one of the most successful reality television personalities ever, after appearance on “The Apprentice,” “Celebrity Apprentice” and “The Surreal Life.”
The public calls her a villainess, an in-your-face, nasty celebrity and terms much worse than that. She knows it, embraces it and has attained success because of it.
How can that same person enter the ministry here at United Theological Seminary in Dayton on Monday?
“I’ve been feeling as though I’ve been going through a transformation over the past couple of years,” she said in a telephone interview on Friday. “You can lose yourself in this business. You lose yourself in Hollywood, lose yourself in fame. If you’re as fortunate as I am, you have people in your life who will work to ground you.”
After many meetings, praying and counseling with her pastor in Washington, D.C., Stallworth, 35, decided to enter the seminary.
She is not, as many blaring Internet headlines say, going to be a preacher or a chaplain. That is undecided.
“My goal is really to be obedient,” she said. “I’m going to seminary to find out what my role will be in the church.”
Being in the seminary and living in Dayton will not preclude her from continued entertainment work. Just this Thursday, she met with reality TV producers about a project. She won’t change who she is in entertainment due to the seminary, but she admits there might be “modifications.”
“The direction that reality (TV) is going will push the envelopes of anything you have ever seen,” she said. “A couple of the offers made me blush and that is hard to do”
For now, she is a student nervous about her first day of class, deciding between a briefcase or a backpack. The Youngstown native, who also received her undergraduate degree from Central State University, is looking forward to Ohio, too.
“I cannot wait to watch the leaves change and see the snow fall again,” she said.
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Ladyfest highlights women’s artwork, dance, music
Ladyfest Dayton will begin tonight, highlighted by three days of music, dance, and many other forms of art.
There will be music and performers, visual artists and sales of art and workshops for topics of interest to women.
It’s the second year a Ladyfest event has been held in Dayton.
“Our purpose is to showcase the talent in the area that a lot of the females have and aren’t normally showcased,” said Mary Kathryn Burnside, one of the organizers of the event.
Ladyfest will include dancers ranging from hip hop to breakdancing. There will be bands featuring high school students to bands led by women in their 40s.
Visual artists, including painter, sculptors, photographers and more will be as young as 7.
It will take place over three afternoons and evenings at c}space, 20 N. Jefferson St.
Ladyfest events have taken place across the world since the first in Olympia, Wash. in 2000. Since then, they have taken place in locations as wide-ranging as Seville, Spain and Tokyo to Orlando and Columbus.
Proceeds from Ladyfest events are usually given to nonprofit group. The Dayton event will benefit The Artemis Center and Planned Parenthood’s PUSH.
Burnside said at last year’s event a lot of women learned from each other and continue to do so.
“Last year there were so many friendships made,” she said. “Some people just met while they were setting up and now are collaborating on things together.”
How to go
Ladyfest Dayton
Friday, Aug. 21 to Sunday, Aug. 23
Hours Friday are 5 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
c}space, 20 N. Jefferson St.
For more information, go to LadyFestDayton.com
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