Kiota Lab - Episode 6

Our final Podcast of the series!!! Hosted by our very own Aisha Ali, featuring:

Miri Tkaya

Miri Tkaya is a British-Egyptian, Invisibly-Disabled Artist, Vocalist, Song-writer, Writer, Performer and Speaker. Miri is passionate about imagination, Arts and language as vehicles to transcend and transform. Longing for a world of mirrors that reflect our authentic selves, she is committed to examining the space between perception and reality, uncovering and celebrating the ‘unseen’ and the ‘other.’ Through lilting jazzy melodies, intricate harmonies and poetic rhythmical lyricism, Miri weaves philosophy and song with honesty, playfulness and grit.

Miri is currently creating music for a gig-theatre show about invisible illness and perception.

Her song "Blood Moon/Wash Away” is about navigating cycles of fluctuating symptoms and abilities in chronic invisible illness, washing away the horizontal hours, the skepticism and judgement that comes with them, and constantly starting over again.

This is an exclusive demo which will be turned into a fuller arrangement. Produced by Dom Richardson.

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Muneera Pilgrim

Muneera Pilgrim is a Storyteller, International Poet, Cultural Producer, Writer, Broadcaster and TEDx  speaker.

She co-founded the Muslim Hip-Hop and spoken word duo Poetic Pilgrimage, and has since gone on to create waves as a solo artist. She is a  co-founder of  a new platform, Black Muslim Women Bike

She conducts workshops, shares art, lectures, and finds alternative ways to tell stories, build community and exchange ideas.

She regularly contributes to BBC 2’s Pause for Thought, she is an associate artist with Inbetween Time, an associate artist with English Touring Theatre where she is writing her first play, and she is currently writing her first official poetry collection will be released in 2021 with Burning Eye Books.

Her piece “Dating in this economy” is a section of a work in progress play about coming of all things: age, realisation, acceptance....it’s a woman’s tale. This is in collaboration with English Touring Theatre.

CW: talk of islamophobia, racism and violence