Bradford Poet
FACILITATING POETRY WORKSHOPS FOR ARTICHOKE - PROJECT "HERD"
BRADFORD FOOD STORIES
Sharena Lee Satti & Abda Khan Project directors and creators of Bradford food stories. Delivered and facilitated poetry workshops and creative writing based on Bradfords food heritage and cultural history. The project ended with a special guest conversations from Waqar Mughal and Irene Lofthouse. Also incredible peformances from our participants who took part in the workshops. The project was funded by Bradford Council.
DYING MATTERS PROJECT
Sharena lee Satti has been working with Dying matters, Dr Jamilla, Hospice Uk and Women zone. Facilitating and delivering creative writing workshops exploring Pakistani women's experiences of death and grief and the end of life, through poetry and creativity.
WORKSHOPS
Poetry Workshops sessions, for both women and men working with Inspired Neighbourhoods Bradford
LIGHT OF THE LANTERNS
Sharena Lee Satti is extremely proud and excited to share their latest work Light of the Lanterns. A project that took place over six weeks working with Maya Productions, Women Zone and Kala Sangam and Co-facilitator Aamta Waheed. The project was inspired by "Benny and the Grey cats" themes on Migration and Journeys.
Sangam Festival 2022
Sangam Festival 2022, Sharena Lee Satti hosted a beautiful event as part of the Sangam Festival and is involved in other creative led workshops and online mics as part of this year's incredible festival.
Boy 87 Project
Sharena Lee Satti was invited as a guest poet to perform her work as part of the Boy87 project. Performing collectively with over 2000 students her poem "We all belong somewhere"
HOSTING EVENTS
Sharena Lee Satti is extremely proud of Sisterhood event that she created and runs every month at Bradford Libraries with the support of Bradford Libraries.
Creating space for women, bringing women together. Giving them a platform to share their voices, to be seen, to be heard. In a safe, supportive, engaging environment.
Sharena Lee Satti was invited to perform at Bradford Literature Festival as part of Little Amals visit to Bradford.
QUIET COMPERE
Sharena Lee Satti was selected as one of 7 poets to perform as part of the Quiet Compere tour In Bradford and the UK
Sharena Lee Satti delivers inspirational talks, based on her own life experiences and how she overcame the situations she faced in her life.
These talks prove to be inspirational and uplifting as well as engaging and encouraging to the audience.
Her empathic approach and genuine nature has led her to deliver speeches and talks up and down the country.
Which inspire and promote positivity, creativity and better mental well-being.
IWD SPEECH GIVEN AT VERALUM SCHOOL
Check out the latest work by Sharena Lee Satti. Delivering IWD speech to an all boys school, sharing her message of why its important for them to be conscious of their actions as young males that will one day become adults.
Sharena Lee Satti collaborated with Abda Khan on a project that lasted a few months starting in 2021.The project entitled ‘Jumping the Middings’, was delivered online, through a series of creative writing and poetry workshops to participants in order to explore and preserve their memories of growing in Bradford in the 1970’s, in the form of creative writing and poems. The participants work was then showcased online and at a in person event. Held at Kala Sangam.
WORKSHOPS
Welcome to the official website of Sharena Lee Satti. As a prolific Poet, their mission in life is to tell poetic stories of all kinds and to share her love of poetry. She has lead many workshops in Schools and at events encouraging and supporting people to express their truth and creativity through this expressive art.
Sharena Lee Satti was invited to contribute her voice to this incredible book "AMPlify" She is really pleased to have made a small contribution to this incredible book. Contributing to the part of Arts and Health in Westyorkshire. Which is incredibly important to her. As an artist, a poet and experiencing first hand at how art can really have a positive impact on ones health.
She really enjoyed being part of these conversations and looks forward to contributing and collaborating on more artist led projects that promote and aid in positive health and well-being.
POETRY ON THE PARK BENCH
SPOKEN WORD IN SCHOOLS
February 7th 2022
Sharena Lee Satti regulary visits schools and on this occasion she was invited alongside two fellow poets, to perform her work in two of the Trinity Schools In Halifax and Bradford.
MIKAC COMMISSIONED POEM / MC EVENT
Sharena Lee Satti has worked with MKIAC extensively over the last year from writing commissioned poetry pieces to hosting MKIAC's online poetry event.
MKIAC, aims to enrich lives through art and culture and have been bringing people from diverse local communities together through a wide range of high-quality shared arts experiences for over a decade, prompted by the 9/11 attacks. They believe that art can transcend religion, politics and race, it can empower individuals and can benefit the community.
WORKSHOPS
With Sharena Lee Satti
Sharena Lee Satti has facilitated workshops for many events, organisations and schools. Such as "Bradford Literature Festival, Sangam festival and many more.
POETRY WORKSHOPS
ALL AGES
BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL
SANGAM FESTIVAL
HUDDERSFIELD LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Sharena Lee Satti delivering workshops for Huddersfield Literature Festival in schoolsOn the theme "One World"
SPOKE FOUNDER
The birth of a new project 'SPOKE' What is Spoke? A non-profit organisation looking to raise the profile of spoken word and provide opportunities for people of all ages and walks of life to experience the world of spoken word poetry.
IWD 2022
ROAD TO RECOVERY
Poets/ Artists/Dancer contributions Asma Malik Dawn Torrens Eric E Ruff David Driver Halima Mayat Irene Lofthouse Jennifer Clarke Keiron Higgings Laura Baldwin Leanne Neill Maria Byrne Nabeela Ahmed Pauline Seawards Rose Condo Sharena Lee Satti Sophie Hutchinson Sophie Sparham Steven Burton Steven Willams Trevor Wainwright Artist: Tzen Tze Re Rei Song by Loli Cosmica Video Editor Richard McLachlan
Road to Recovery, a project led by poet Sharena Lee Satti, united artists to share a message to anyone struggling with mental health during and after the lockdown.
DEEDS NOT WORDS
To mark International Women's Day, Sharena has recorded a heartfelt reading of Deeds Not Words published by Bradford Telegraph and Argus
International Womens day 2020
WEAVING LIFE
A film featuring spoken word by Sharena Lee Satti and dance by members of Dance United Yorkshire's Gradient Company. It was produced as part of the Weaving the Future exhibition, a multi-media celebration of modern day textiles produced by Tim Smith, commissioned by the Saltaire Festival and first shown at Salts Mill during Sept. & Oct. 2019. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
ARTS OF LIFE
Poetry and Spoken Word Event + Joan Day Painting Bursary Exhibition at The South Square centre
Sharena Lee Satti hosted her event "Arts of Life" at The South Square Centre in Thornton Bradford. It's very first open mic spoken word and poetry event. Which also seen her poem "Untroubled Landscape" hand written on the walls of The South Square Centre to showcase how the Bronte sisters once shared their poetry
LATEST RADIO INTERVIEW WITH RADIASIAN.LONDON
Sharena Lee Sattis latest interview with RadiAsian.London
https://www.mixcloud.com/radiasian1/bhangra-breakfast-sat-6th-nov-2021-sharena-lee-satti-interview/
150 years of service at Bradford Libraries. Sharena Lee Satti holds a special place for Bradford Libraries and the services they provide and the impact they have had on her own personal life. Bradford Libraries is where it all began.
"No longer just on park benches, these words of poetry are endless"
LEEDS LIEDER
We were delighted to have Sharena Lee Satti as one of the poets for our 2018 Composers and Poets Forum, the seventh of these projects, which bring together student composers from the national conservatoires and White Rose universities and poets recruited mostly locally to form new creative partnerships. Over the course of some 6 months, the partners collaborate to produce new songs which are then workshopped during the Leeds Lieder Festival with a panel of professional musicians and poets before being premièred at a public Showcase later in the day. Writing for the voice presents many challenges and many of the composers and poets have never written for the voice before, but we are always hugely impressed with the energy, creativity and imagination which they bring to the work. Sharena’s song for the project, “Trapped”, written with London-based composer Clare Elton, and inspired by conversations with people suffering from the isolation and loneliness of homelessness, was a wonderful example of this, and a most valuable contribution to the success of the project. We wish her every success in the future.
Kathleen Evans, Chairman, Leeds Lieder
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Sharena Lee Satti is part of a project called StoryTrails. Her story is showcased in a 3d virtual world showcased at Bradford Libraries.
StoryTrails harnesses the magic of immersive storytelling to bring to life untold stories from the past, through the magic of the 3D internet using augmented and virtual reality to reanimate public spaces in towns and cities across the UK.
Audiences will time-travel via the wonder of new technologies to experience untold local histories where they happened. Town squares, local libraries, streets, and cinemas will be transformed into virtual portals through which to explore stories of historical change in 15 locations across the UK in 2022.
