Saturdays, July 10th till July 31st, at 9 AM (Arizona Time)
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Email: speakfromtheheartinstitute@gmail.com
Sukina Pilgrim is a Poet, Spoken-Word artist, Playwright, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organizer and co-founder of Muslim female Hip Hop duo, and Poetic Pilgrimage. Sukina holds a BA (Hons) Degree in English Literature and Caribbean Studies and is currently pursuing an MSC in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes.
She has facilitated creative writing workshops across the world empowering communities to use the written word as a tool for dialogue and engagement. Born in Bristol to Jamaican parents Sukina was raised in a Rastafarian inspired environment however in 2005 she converted to Islam and since then she has played an intrinsic role within the British Muslim creative communities as a performer and events organizer.
Her work has been featured on the BBC News, World Service and Asian Network, ITV, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera and has been written about in the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, The Voice and many other international media outlets. In March 2015 Al Jazeera screened a documentary about her group called Hip Hop Hijabis.
Sukina made her theatre debut in 2016 in a production called Malcolm X at the KVS (Royal Flemish Theatre) in Brussels which was critically acclaimed and is currently writing a play for the KVS Theatre. In 2017 she delivered a TEDx Talk on the healing power of poetry.