Kenya: Radical Kenyan Asian artist to perform

Excerpts from Migritude have aired on BBC radio, NPR, the National Radio Project, and Pacifica Radio, generating responses worldwide. Migritude was recently selected for the International Women Art Festival in Vienna in 2006. “Migritude explores global themes - heritage, war, freedom - by making intimate family treasures public. Similarly, it expresses universal experiences of colonised peoples through the journeys of my own diasporic Indian family. The sequence maps my personal transitions as a migrant: from survival to self-expression, invisibility to activism, model minority to radical artist," says Shailja. The show will be held at Carnivore's Simba Saloon on February 2 at 8pm. Shailja will also host Kenya's first ever Poetry Slam on Tuesday February 7 at Club Soundd, venue for Kwani? magazine popular Open Mic sessions.