Bio
Sajia Kabir is a poet-composer, dancing songwriter, creative dance artist, and singing actress based in Vancouver BC. She is passionate about classical and folk art forms, science fiction and fantasy, avant-garde and DIY performance, and social justice.
Sajia Kabir exploded on the Vancouver DIY scene with her song “Resisting Me” in 2008 on the Greenbelt Compilation CD. She wrote and performed her first one woman show "The Body Says" in 2012. Her poems "Racefail" and "Unfold" were featured on the Shoutback 2013 and 2014 cassette compilations. She has previously been published in A Beautiful Resistance and was one of the poets featured in Art Song Lab 2016.
Sajia's work as a poet is deeply influenced by her background as a queer Bangladeshi Muslimah, her studies in Hindustani classical music and her training in bellydance and yoga. She is currently preparing her first book of poetry and working on a series of albums using song poetry and spoken word. She wishes to share her sometimes disturbing, always compassionate visions of the world with a wide audience. For upcoming news subscribe to her mailing list.
