As a recipient of a Honorable Mention Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts, Surrey Muse Awards, 2022 I have been asked to do an artist talk on May 27. I’ll be presenting from my studio at the Banff Centre during my BAiR residency.

May 27
1:00 – 4:00 PM (PT)
Room 418, City Centre branch, Surrey Library or on Zoom

Author Hasan Namir
Poet Wayde Compton
Musician Janel Rae
Emerging Poet Eimear Laffan
Emerging Artist Elyse Longair
Artist-at-Work Yanli Tang
Host Mariam Zohra D

Surrey Muse is an interdisciplinary art and literature presentation group that was founded by four artists of Color in Surrey BC in November 2011. Mandated to inclusivity and equality, it held 3-hour salon-style monthly gatherings featuring authors, poets and artist/performers, with discussions and open mic sessions till March 2019 when it went virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions. In 2016, for its fifth anniversary, two additional programs were introduced: Surrey Muse At Large and Surrey Muse Writers. The group registered itself as Surrey Muse Arts Society (SMAS) in 2019, and it operates from the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.