A One-Woman Show
Zaynab Mohammed’s one-woman show is a journey of sound, sight and story. It is the story of how one woman loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, whilst navigating a terrain foreign to her ancestors. Being displaced, moved from land, and uprooted is intergenerational. How does a young woman who’s been colonised for generations free herself?
This is her story. She finds her freedom by leaning on the art of listening to herself, to others and to the earth. A carefully woven tapestry of transforming pain into beauty, into magic, into possibility. She uncovers a quenching truth that gives her access to what she lost as a child; her innocence.
Zaynab Mohammed is a Nelson-based performance poet, storyteller and artist who was named a BC Culture Days Ambassador in 2022. Her recent projects include a memoir and a mural painted in the stairwell of the Nelson Museum, Archives & Art Gallery.
Learn more about Zaynab and her work.