“I enjoy connecting through visual poetics, workshops, and performances. It is in the sharing of our stories, experiences, and cultures that we discover connective empathy.” - Micaela Kaibni Raen
Building on 40+ years of experience as a community organizer, Micaela Kaibni Raen is a dynamic speaker/teacher/performer. She has a unique ability to relate with her audience and discuss issues facing her various communities...Southwest Asian/North African and Diasporic communities, Queer/Trans communities, as well as women and families.
With a conversational style and a storytelling context, Micaela Kaibni Raen discusses the emotional and cultural context for the creative works presented. Performances can include visual poetics (full or partially on screen), reading/performance and a time for an interactive discussion. She is also available for craft talks, technique presentations and creative writing workshops. She can create a customized event for your group or organization.
Workshops for Creatives
Micaela's workshops are based on creating and sharing. She has created one-of-a-kind activities that are styled as inclusive and interactive conversations. She has handcrafted resources, downloads and give-a-ways spanning several topics for creators. Some topics covered are lifestyle organization, creative time management, the magic of the "Artist's Taah Daah List," artistic creation checklists, and unique creation prompts. Every workshop has information, tools, interaction, feedback and time to create. But don’t forget the fun! She creates a safe place to connect while sharing techniques to take your work to deeper and deeper levels. Upon request, she can create a customized workshop for your group or organization.
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& Performances
DIWAN Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum 2025
- Sumud Motifs: A Woven Inheritance of Visual and Literary Storytelling, March 2025
- “Formal Resistance: Mixed- Genre/Transgenre/Multimedia of Color In(ter)ventions., 2023
- n/evergreen: Arab/Indigenous Ecopoesis & Environmental Literatures, 2022
- The City as Indigenous Place: Beneath, Between &
Beyond the Urban in Native Art, 2020
- Arab/Indigenous: Palestinian, Indigenous North African,
and Arab/Native American Art, 2019
Radius of Arab-American Writer's Literary Conference - panel presentations/performances:
- Mizna+RAWIFest: Sumud Motifs: A Woven Inheritance of Visual and Literary Storytelling, October 2023
- “Gathering Cedar: An Arab/Indigenous Multimedia Performance and Dialogue” RAWIFest Literary Conference, June 2021
- The
Loft Literary Center, September 2014: Decolonizing Desire, Devotion, &
Diaspora: Queer/Womanist Arab American Literatures
- Hunter
College, June 2005: Workshop: Sexuality in Arab American Literature
Performances:
Various Art and Literary Spaces in Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C., 2006-Present
“Poetry Gays” Queer Bar, Seattle, Washington, March 2023
Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg, New York, March 2002: Writing workshop and craft talk.