Writing, reading, studying cultures and religions, traveling & being inspired, dancing, performing, long intellectual conversations.
Music
Kundalini Shock Attack, Nebulae, ARIEL, Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, Karsh Kale, Saul Williams, Autorickshaw, Hindi/filmi music,Ravaliya, Audio Dakoos, House, D&B, Electronica, Prem Joshua, Dead can Dance, Sheila Chandra, Ismael Lo, Geoffrey Oryema...pretty much anything that is unique and intriguing. I'm getting sick of the mainstream stuff.
Books
Don't get me started, the list will never end.
I do have favourite authors/poets:
Narayan, Naipaul, Rishma Dunlop, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Tagore, Gibran, Kamala Das, Mirza Ghalib, Amitava Kumar, Agha Shahid Ali, Bulleh Shah, Kabir, Yeats, Rumi, T.S Eliot, Chistopher Pearse Cranch, Frost, Tennyson (read De Profundis), Wallace Stevens, Matthew Arnold (for Dover Beach), Shelley (for his Defence of Poetry), Cornelius Eady (Brutal Imagination), Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, Nazneen Sheikh (Tea and Pomegranates). Recently finished G.I Gurdjieff's 'Meetings with Remarkable Men'.
Sheniz Janmohamed is a poet, spoken word artist and freelance writer. She holds an Honours BA (with Distinction) in Religion and English Literature from the University of Toronto. She has completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Her thesis is a collection of literary essays that explore her triune identity as a Canadian with ancestry in India and Kenya. Her thesis advisor is national bestselling author, Janice Kulyk Keefer.
She's completed the first draft of a one (two?) act play under the mentorship of Dora Award winning playwright, David Young. Sheniz has also had the pleasure of having her writing workshopped under Governor General award winning poet Dionne Brand and GG nominee Thomas King.
She has finished a manuscript of ghazals in English under the mentorship of the late Professor Kuldip Gill (UBC). Two of her ghazals have been put to music and sung by talented singer and classical musician, Tanya Jacobs.
She's also a journalist- and has interviewed an incredible group of artists, including: Richie Mehta (director of the award winning film Amal), Mohsin Hamid (Booker Prize Nominee, Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Anosh Irani (author of The Cripple and His Talismans, Dora Award-winning playwright), Seema Biswas (Actress, Bandit Queen, Khamoshi), Vik Sahay (Chuck, Amal), Purva Bedi (American Desi), R&B sensation Deesha, Juno-nominated Autorickshaw, The Bilz & Kashif, Vishal & Shekhar, Jungli, desi rocker jsin, musical maestro Nitin Sawhney and the list continues.
She is also the founder and president of Ignite Poets, an initiative that allows young poets and spoken word artists to collaborate and work together for worthy causes. Ignite's second show, Ignite II: Unite (2004), raised funds for The World Partnership Walk. In addition to having her own spoken word initiative, Sheniz is also a promotions officer for Toronto Poets (www.torontopoets.com).
Sheniz has shared the stage with Canadian idol hopeful Devika Mathur, world class saxophonist Sundar Viswanathan, Azalea Ray, Andrea Nann "(Dreamwalker Dance) and "The Tabla Guy", Gurpreet Chana to name a few. She has been featured at spoken word events all over the city including Strong Words Reading Series, Toronto Poets' Saturday Night Love, Majlis Arts Ghazal Mehfil, The Mini Shebang (high school tour), Dishoom! South Asian Performance Festival, Small World Music Series, Cryptic Chatter and underground sounds.
Sheniz is currently collaborating with a number of electronica/dub artists in the UK and abroad, including Mahisha, State of Bengal and the Mosienko Project. Watch this space and witness how quickly words can spread.
Thanks for your support!
peace love and light!
Who I'd like to meet: Poets, writers, musicians, artists, dancers, filmmakers, spoken word artists, journalists, anyone and everyone who lives and breathes art.
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Be well Sheniz, I love your poetry reading on the video, you have a courageous and articulate spirit that is very brilliant. Much Respect!
Hey! Just spotted your second vid. Excellent rhythms, tempo' & delivery. Vibrant & dynamic. Wanna hear more? It'll cost you a few more words yourself though. ;-) Peace up. Beat on. Get down. G.
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thanks, we should collaborate sometime...i noticed your stuff with Gurpreet, I was supposed to play with him and others for the Centenial Foundation Gala at the ROM, but life/death happened...he's a cool guy
