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storyteller • writer • theatre maker
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Clean your ears: Not so friendly reminders in times of injustice 🗣️ #justiceforyvessakila by @sha.eirah

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5 months ago

This time, last year…

Set in Kālā Pānī jail (Andaman & Nicobar Islands), @subhashinigoda.dance and I wrote, directed and performed a story that linked historical timelines and addressed duality.

Using the cyclicity of the 5 Islamic prayers, our two characters, from opposing worlds, uncovered similarities in their journeys and dismantled their own systems of oppression - internal and external.

This piece marked the first time the Islamic call to prayer, the Azaan, was recited in a theatre space in Dublin - and that too by a woman ✨🙋🏽‍♀️ #alhamdulilah

KĀLĀ PĀNĪ was birthed from our desire to recognise South Asian womanhood - to honour its legacy - and our need to highlight narratives that were drowned during the Partition.

Grateful for our team, @sceneandheardfestivalofnewwork and @smockalleytheatre

TEAM 👏🏽

Written, Performed & Directed by: @ay3shagram & @subhashinigoda.dance
Presented by: @sha.eirah
Production: @ginead2
Stage Management: @usher_titus of @arinolatheatre
Light Design: @clare_mcloughlin1
Sound Design: @leah_mullen_
Stage Design: @pai.rathaya
Photography : @cleide.reginart, @mandalena01 and @saoirsemcart
Poster Design: @kr8v by @sha.eirah

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2 years ago

• September 19th, 2023 •

I, along with the support, love and dedication of these beautiful humans, and a plethora of others, put together Passports for @dublinfringefest 🥰

A year later, one thing that I believe with absolute conviction is that the conversation that we created/started/held was deeply cathartic to everyone who was in that space - on, off and behind the stage.

There’s much more I want to say and much more I want to share, and maybe one day I will…but it hasn’t felt right or just celebrating this achievement - especially with the gut wrenching state of the world which feels like it’s worsening with each passing day.

So for now here’s to celebrating the tribe that believed in me and believed that this was worth doing ♥️

WE did that.

We all walked away feeling lighter, more of ourselves, and a little more hopeful of humanity ✨

A year on, I want to anchor that sentiment ⚓️♥️🍉

- Ayesha / Shaéirah

🎥: @isthatmargarita
@visiontohunt

🎶: “Dancing but it Don’t Feel Right” @ashaarimusic taken in Project Arts Centre by @sha.eirah

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2 years ago

We are so excited to share our collaborative sound work, now showing at 41st EVA International until October 25th.

This installation was made possible through the Platform Commissions programme. Huge thanks to selectors Iarlaith Ní Fheorais and Roy Claire Potter, who invited artists to respond to ideas and definitions of access.

This project has felt like a very true joint labour and we are deeply grateful to our collaborators @dagogo_hart, @rima_jpeg, @sha.eirah and our guide throughout, @listengallery for the chance to learn together and to put into action the power of the tongue.

Swipe to read our letter of gratitude and find participants’ bios 💌

Call Centre Sound Structure, 2025 This installation weaves together archival recordings, field sounds, and oral histories from Rima Hamid, Dagogo Hart, and Shaéirah. Set in a fictional Irish call centre, it follows three guided monologues exploring precarity, labour, and class as experienced by the migrant workforce. Each voice carries fragments of lived experience while responding to the call centre environment. Through sonic layering, the work asks: What new social formations might emerge through attentive acts of listening and speaking? by @sha.eirah

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a year ago

Bevel & Embody proudly debuts WOMAN, our first-ever live performance, celebrating the strength, beauty and diversity of womanhood through the art of Heels dance. More than just a performance, WOMAN is a manifesto—an unapologetic declaration of empowerment, self-expression and community.

📅 Sat April 12th - Dublin
📍 @complexdublin Smithfield
🎟️ 1st Show - Doors 4:30pm, Show 5pm
🎟️ 2nd Show - Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)

📅 Sunday May 11th - Galway
📍 Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
🎟️ 1st Show - Doors 4:30pm, Show 5pm
🎟️ 2nd Show - Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm (SOLD OUT)

💃🏻Creative Director & Choreographer @miss_didek
🎬 Producer @sha.eirah
👩🏻‍🎨 Graphic Designer @rmoondesigns_ by @sha.eirah

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2 years ago

Identity of being Pakistani, Swiss and Irish.

From Episode 55 “Being Swiss, Pakistani, and Irish At The Same Time, Life in International School, and BlindianProject w/ Ayesha Syeddah”

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcast

#thirdculturekids #pakistan #swiss #irish #thirdculturekid by @sha.eirah

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• KĀLĀ PĀNĪ •

Opposing worlds are forced to birth a bond of survival, human connection and companionship.

28th February, 1st of March 2024
Main Space, @smockalleytheatre

LINK IN BIO 🎟️

TEAM ✨

Written, Performed & Directed by: @ay3shagram & @subhashinigoda
Presented by: @sha.eirah
Production: @ginead2
Stage Management: @usher_titus of @arinolatheatre
Light Design: @clare_mcloughlin1
Sound Design: @leah_mullen_
Stage Design: @pai.rathaya
Cover Images: @cleide.reginart & @mandalena01
Poster Design: @kr8v by @sha.eirah

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3 years ago

SO, @subhashinigoda and I are doing a thing for @sceneandheardfestivalofnewwork later this month 💁🏽‍♀️

Kālā Pānī (trans. “‘Black Water”), a short play, is based on the British colonial prison of the same name, in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. It was the setting for India’s colonial government to exile criminals, political prisoners and freedom fighters who sought and fought for India’s independence.

Our story begins with two freedom fighters in one prison cell…

Grab your ticket to find out how it ends.

LINK IN BIO 🎟️

28/02 • 01/03 • 18:30 •Main Space• @smockalleytheatre

Poster design: @kr8v 👊🏽 by @sha.eirah

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Here’s your personal invite to passports - a conversation with Ayesha Syeddah & friends, happening this Tuesday, September 19th, 15:00 at the @projectartscentre 🙌🏽

Supported by @dublinfringefest & the @blindianproject ♥️

🎥 @isthatmargarita by @sha.eirah

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3 years ago

📣📣📣 LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣📣

It’s with PURE JOY that I’m sharing the immensely talented, bold and brilliant artists (who I have the privilege to also call friends) joining me for passports next Tuesday..

We will be sharing our stories freely, bravely & unapologetically, with the hope to show you what home means to us. And we ask you, the audience, to join us in defining it further through social experiment.

Lineup:
Asha Ari @ashaarimusic 🇮🇪 x 🇬🇭
Jehnova @jehnova_ 🇮🇪 x 🇿🇦
Salamay @salamay_sound 🇮🇪 x 🇳🇬
Denise Chaila @denisechaila 🇮🇪 x 🇿🇲
Subhashini Goda @subhashinigoda 🇮🇳
Polina Cosgrave @polinacosgrave 🇮🇪 x 🇷🇺 x 🇦🇲
Pai Rathaya @pai_rathaya 🇹🇭
Osaro Azams @iyobasaro 🇮🇪 x 🇳🇬
Shauna Harris @shaunaxrose 🇮🇪 x 🇯🇲 x 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Ania Kudriavtseva @ta_samaya_kudriavtseva 🇺🇦
Eftychia Spyridaki @effiesp_directing 🇬🇷
Arsheen Shamaila @arsheenss 🇵🇰 x 🇨🇦

If you haven’t gotten your tix yet - stop sleeping on us, visit fringefest.com asap rocky!

🎥 @isthatmargarita 🇭🇷 x 🇳🇱
🎶 @agdynasty 🇮🇳 x 🇺🇸
🎨 @shunayna_ 🇮🇳 x 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
📷 @ana.lucia.mondoloni 🇫🇷 x 🇧🇷

September 19th • 15:00 • Project Arts Centre

Supported by @dublinfringefest & the @blindianproject ♥️ by @sha.eirah

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• passports - a conversation with Ayesha Syeddah & friends •

My first show is taking place next week at the @projectartscentre for the @dublinfringefest 🎈

Difficult conversations are necessary conversations. I’m not one to shy away from them but living in Ireland, I realise that I am an anomaly.

The inspiration behind the show is rooted in creating a space and dialogue between friends that proudly take ownership of their hyphenated identities in a place that doesn’t quite know what to do with them.

We are here to talk about the dualities of that existence.

Of what matters to us,
what make us belong,
the homes we were born in,
the homes we had to leave,
and the homes we are creating..

We are migrants. And these are our stories ♥️

Co-director: @effiesp_directing
Producer: Oonagh Wall

September 19th at 15:00
Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs
€10 tix - fringefest.com by @sha.eirah

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• SHAÉIRAH •/ˈʃɑːirrɑː/

a modern day iteration of the Urdu, Hindi and Persian word shayera meaning poetess. ‘sha’ is an ode to my Sufi lineage, ‘eir’ is raising the glass to my home, the Emerald Isle and ‘ah’ is honouring the origin ✨

#786

📷: @ana.lucia.mondoloni
🎶: @agdynasty by @sha.eirah

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