Sabriaya Shipley
What's Happining
Whats Sabriaya up to?
Sabriaya has just completed her first international residency in London with Residency 11:11!
A recipient of the Past Visions/Future Archives Microgrant, their cocurated youth led exhibition "Generational Feasting opened as apart of Rosine 2.0 Radical Healing event on March 18, 2023
ABOUT
Me
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Sabriaya is a Philadelphia-based poet, educator, and community ethnographer. Named a 2019 A+ Educator by Philadelphia Family Magazine and a 2021 Black Lives Matter Black Educator Fellow, Sabriaya currently works with North Philadelphia’s Tree House Books as a Literacy Program Director decolonizing literacy for Black youth. They are a co-founder of Griot Girls, a youth writing collective for young Black girls. Sabriaya holds a BA in Theatre from Temple University and is currently a MA candidate at Prescott College for Social Justice and Community Organizing. Their devised work has been featured at the Painted Bride Art Center, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and within the Call & Response Journal, Claer Magazine, Ode to Queer, and Dizzie Magazine. A recent recipient of the Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Art Works grant and the Magnify Microgrant Angel Pirate Production/ TS Poeticst, Sabriaya is a citizen artist determined to represent the intersections of their community.
Sabriaya Shipley (She/They)
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Sabriaya is a Philadelphia-based poet, educator, and community ethnographer determined to study, receive, and cultivate nontraditional performance/ art spaces centered around the expressive freedom of Black & Brown youth. Named a 2019 A+ Educator by Philadelphia Family Magazine and a 2021 Black Lives Matter Philly Educator /Fellow, Sabriaya holds a BA in Theatre from Temple University with concentrations in poetry as performance and poetic ethnography and a MA in Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College. Sabriaya has collaborated as an educator, artist, and artistic advisor with several community based organizations and art spaces such as Theatre Exile, Power Street Theatre, the Painted Bride Art Center, the Colored Girls Museum, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, New Voice for Reproductive Justice, Residency 11:11 in London, Girls Rock Philly, and Tree House Books where they served as a Literacy Program Director decolonizing access to literacy for Black & Brown North Philly Youth. They are a co-founder of Griot Girls, a youth writing collective for young Black girls. Her first publication “Somewhere Between God & Mammy” was released in January 2022. A recipient of the 2021-2022 Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Art Works grant, Sabriaya is a citizen artist determined to represent the intersections of their community.
