Lilija Valis – Surrey Muse

Lilija Valis is a Vancouver-based poet, spoken word, and recording artist. She is the author of poetry book Freedom on the Fault Line, and she has released a solo recording, ‘Poems of Freedom and Other Everyday Things’, and a group recording ‘Skytrain’ with Secret Messengers. Lilija won Vancouver Tagore Society’s 2017 First Prize in Poetry, and she was a prizewinner at Artists Embassy International 2017 Dancing Poetry Festival in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in various anthologies, and she has performed at literary, musical and philosophical events such as Poetic Justice, Surrey Muse, Renaissance Books, and LibertyMingle. She has hosted poetry and music events and has been interviewed on Co-Op Radio on numerous occasions. Lilija is working on a new book of poems.

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At the August 25 gathering of Surrey Muse, Lilija will be our featured Performer with Musician Enrico Renz. More about the event is here: august-25-gathering

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Tiberia Pachecho – Surrey Muse

Poet and short-story writer, Tiberia was born, raised and educated in Portugal and lived also in Angola before moving to Canada.

Tiberia has published short stories and poems in the Canadian Poetry Institute and has contributed to the Sunrise Anthology and recently to a short story anthology published by New West Writers. She writes on her memories of her life in her Azorian culture, Africa, her life as a nun for three years in Portugal and her many years as a nurse.

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Sherry Duggal – Surrey Muse

Sherry Duggal is a South Asian Canadian actor, dancer, author and a naturopathic doctor who often combines her different skills to create art. Sherry’s play ‘Eve: A Balancing Act’ was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Her first book ‘Beneath The Surface’ is written in poetic prose as a stream of consciousness focusing on a healing journey. Her second book ‘Shringar: The Different Shades Of An Indian Bride’, is a poetry anthology that celebrates the feminine. Sherry’s scripts and plays have featured in international festivals including Rabindranath Tagore Festival, Sufi Legacy Conference, Diwalifest, Summer in the City, Mother Tongue Festival, Masala Mehndi Masti, and Pull Festival. Sherry has presented her work at World Poetry, Poetic Justice, Pandora’s Collective, Holy Wow poets, Writers International Network and Surrey Muse. Born and raised in Vancouver, Sherry has published and performed her work in India, UK, USA and Canada.

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At the August 28 gathering of Surrey Muse, Sherry will be the Featured Performer. More on the event is here: august-28-2020.

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Storma Sire – Surrey Muse

Storma Sire is an award winning African-Canadian artist, author, poet, illustrator and film writer of West African Akan heritage.

As a film writer, Storma has co-written two independent feature films, two television pilots and one documentary on the homeless in the Vancouver downtown east side called Goin’ Home (2007). She co-wrote Barbara James (2003), Winnipeg’s first black, full length independent feature film. The film won honours at several international film festivals (including London, Los Angeles and Sicily), won best picture and best actress at the National Film Board of Canada and was nominated for best screenplay at the Toronto Black Film and Video Network.

As a writer, Storma’s children’s novel Lessons in Magic won for Best Emerging Author/Illustrator in Children’s Literature in 2006 from the Canada Council for the Arts. She has also illustrated for the University of British Columbia’s Journal of Writing for Children. Her poetry has featured in the anthology Black Canadian North: Contemporary African Canada Poetry (2013) and she is currently writing a book of poetry entitled Red Cap. Her paintings on stone and canvass focus on abstract, indigenous and subjective narratives can be seen here: www.thewindowartshop.com.

Storma has also been teaching art, creative writing and creativity classes at Langara College and for the City of Burnaby for nearly a decade. She has worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery for 6 years, and has co-curated a number of independent art shows. She is a social activist and co-founded the Sickle Cell Association of BC in 2012.

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