an invitation to organizations and communities of color

I would love to share and co-present this program together: a play and workshop to excavate what keeps us silent and express what wants to speak

THE GOOD MANNERS OF COLONIZED SUBJECTS, a solo play/storytelling performance made of poetry and dance about the journey of an Indian-American Muslim-Catholic woman through colonization and fear into art and liberation (presented at the Pan Asian Rep Theatre's NuWorks 2019 festival among others)

YOUR VOICE AS CATALYST, a workshop to liberate your voice out into the world, becoming the seeds for speeches, blogs, books, coaching, conversations, whatever is calling to you.…so you are seen and feel free to live what you love

“in telling stories, I feel I’m continuing a process in which our connections expand, the world contracts, and far away becomes close.”

— from SNOW IN MONGOLIA, first published in Vela magazine

shebana coelho

"I come from a class of Indians specifically created as part of British education policy to be 'Indian in blood/colour but English in intellect/morals.'* It has inspired much of my art-making, to unmask colonizations of all kinds, and share experiences that liberate a felt body sense of creativity.

*See Minute on Education by Thomas Babington Macaulay

BOOK

Feedback/Editing

creativity coaching for all kinds of projects and insightful gentle feedback and conceptual editing for manuscripts.

Speaker/Storyteller/Performer

powerful, funny, poetic Herstories about the root and ripples of colonizations, art and fear (inviting fear in for tea) and finding your VOICE

Facilitate

embodied creative playful workshops that dissolve borders and reconnect us to stories, land, and each other.

who is the real indian?

Book a performance of a play. (online or in person) or a storytelling, dance and poetry presentation. Or a creativity workshop. Or a SPEECH or presentation that is an organic mix of all of these. Or book a CONSULT about programs your organization is creating or a PROPOSAL you are writing.

CONTACT

info at shebanacoelho dot com

from the good manners of colonzied subjects

videos inspired by the spain incarnation of the play

Les Graifman, Cultural Events Ambassador, IIE, NYC

“Sharp barbs softened by the grace of the mind and body and hands like fluttering birds moving through the fire of flamenco was a perfection!”

- Anne Valley Fox, poet, Santa Fe

"Your performance...was sublime. You are an exquisite, poetic storyteller & dancer. I was moved & informed on multiple levels, & so honored to be able to follow your soulful, artistic movement on the planet... a prodigious artistic statement! "

My sense is that the first step to decolonizing - especially for women of color - is interpreting stories in a body sense way, letting our mysterious reactions guide us, getting out of the head and the overemphasis on English even as we speak it and write in it.”