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"self portrait of the artist as a loveletter to YEG" written and performed by Nisha Patel, Poet Laureate of the City of Edmonton.

celebrating International Women's Day 2021, on behalf of the Alberta School of Business

Written for the 2020 graduating class of Bow Valley College, this poem is dedicated to the journey taken by students to get here through challenge and success, and to step toward what's next.

Nisha is a poet from Edmonton, Alberta. Video by Moh and Mahzen Mahfouz.

Performed at the preliminaries of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, 2017. Filmed by Make Spoken Word Go Viral.

Nisha Patel performs ELOQUENT at the 2017 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Peterborough, Ontario. Like | Share | Subscribe Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mswgv.ca/ Filmed/Edited by EK Visions: www.facebook.com/EKVISIONS/

Performed in the preliminaries of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, 2017. Filmed by Make Spoken Word Go Viral.

Featuring at Southside Parlour (Seoul) [180610]

Filmed at Southside Parlour (Seoul) [180610]

Nisha Patel placed 4th on April 29th 2017 at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Finals. This is Nisha's poem Coconut

Nisha Patel placed 4th on April 29th 2017 at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Finals. This is Nisha's poem Funny Women

Performed at the semi-finals of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, 2017. Filmed by Make Spoken Word Go Viral.

Nisha Patel is a spoken word artist from Edmonton, Alberta who began performing in 2015. Her poetry often speaks to themes of identity, mental illness, and women's issues. She was a member of the 2015 Edmonton Slam Team and recently competed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word national championships. She has also competed at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, the Edmonton Summer Slam finals, and the Next Fest Rise Up poetry slam. Poets in the past have always been the outsiders - they've told the stories that other people don't want to listen to. In this engaging talk, Nisha Patel contrasts the voice spoken word poetry dons to marginalized individuals, and how such poetry revolutionizes the political systems which fail to give equal voice to everyone. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx