Performance
Residency 11:11 with Sabriaya Shipley
8 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 22:00
Free admission
Address
- 118 Bethnal Green Road
- London
England - E2 6DG
- United Kingdom
As part of their one month residency with 11:11, poet, educator and community ethnographer Sabriaya Shipley presents their culminating project "In Sankofa: Outside of Community".
About
Join Residency 11:11 and poet, educator and community ethnographer Sabriaya Shipley at Glass House London.
As part of their one month stay with 11:11, Sabriaya will be presenting their culminating project, "In Sankofa: Outside of Community," featuring poetry in performance, digital media, and ethnographic mapping of the intersections of the Black diaspora found during their time exploring cultural sites of Black London history.
Free to attend. Please sign up via eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/residency-1111-with-sabriaya-shipley-tickets-560738543077
This event is supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Sabriaya Shipley is a Philadelphia-based poet, educator, and community ethnographer determined to study, receive, and cultivate nontraditional performance/ art spaces centered around the expressive freedom of Black, Brown & Indigenous stories. Named a 2019 A+ Educator by Philadelphia Family Magazine and a 2021 Black Lives Matter Philly Educator /Fellow, Sabriaya holds a BA in Theatre from Temple University with concentrations in poetry as performance and poetic ethnography and a MA in Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College. A recipient of the Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Individual Art Works grant, Sabriaya has collaborated as an educator, artist, and artistic advisor with several community based organizations and art spaces such as Theatre Exile, Power Street Theatre, the Painted Bride Art Center, the Colored Girls Museum, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, New Voice for Reproductive Justice,Girls Rock Philly, and Tree House Books where they served as a Literacy Program Director decolonizing access to literacy for Black & Brown North Philly Youth