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<https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kinesis/items/1.0045764>. Kinesis.</ref><ref>https://www.leonardo.info/contributor/8427/zainub-verjee</ref>She was the guest editor of a special double issue of the Capilano Review,<ref>https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/issues/issue-2-67/</ref>the first to be entirely devoted to women, featuring thirty-seven British Columbia women writers and visual artists, all working within the theme of struggle, local and global.<ref>https://front.bc.ca/events/struggle-local-global-issue-book-launch/</ref><ref> The Capilano Review, Capilano College, 1991</ref>
<https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kinesis/items/1.0045764>. Kinesis.</ref><ref>https://www.leonardo.info/contributor/8427/zainub-verjee</ref>She was the guest editor of a special double issue of the Capilano Review,<ref>https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/issues/issue-2-67/</ref>the first to be entirely devoted to women, featuring thirty-seven British Columbia women writers and visual artists, all working within the theme of struggle, local and global.<ref>https://front.bc.ca/events/struggle-local-global-issue-book-launch/</ref><ref> The Capilano Review, Capilano College, 1991</ref>


She has been active as an arts administrator in the field of cultural policy and cultural diplomacy for over 30 years.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainubverjee/?originalSubdomain=ca</ref><ref>https://canadianart.ca/interviews/in-visible-colours/</ref><ref>http://www.mymississauga.ca/2017/06/14/agm-appoints-four-new-members-board-directors/</ref><ref>https://talenttolead.ca/steering-committee</ref><ref>Ismailimail (September 14, 2016). “Women in Leadership: Zainub Verjee Reflects on the state of culture sector and offers inspirational insights". Ismailimail. Retrieved November 26, 2018.</ref>
She has been active as an arts administrator in the field of cultural policy and cultural diplomacy for over 30 years.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainubverjee/?originalSubdomain=ca</ref><ref>https://canadianart.ca/interviews/in-visible-colours/</ref><ref>http://www.mymississauga.ca/2017/06/14/agm-appoints-four-new-members-board-directors/</ref><ref>https://talenttolead.ca/steering-committee</ref><ref>Ismailimail (September 14, 2016). “[https://ismailimail.blog/2016/09/14/women-and-leadership-zainub-verjee-reflects-on-state-of-the-culture-sector-and-offers-inspirational-insights/ Women in Leadership: Zainub Verjee Reflects on the state of culture sector and offers inspirational insights]". Ismailimail. Retrieved November 26, 2018.</ref>


Born in Nairobi in 1956, Verjee is a fourth generation Kenyan.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/nomadic-architecture-showcased-two-decades-ago-at-burnaby-jamatkhana/|title=Nomadic Architecture showcased two decades ago at Burnaby Jamatkhana|last=Ismailimail|first=|date=October 4, 2017|website=Ismailimail|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=48799&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=fr&pID=1&an=verjee&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|title=Artists in Canada|last=National Gallery of Canada|first=|date=January 27, 2006|website=Artists in Canada|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> She moved to Canada in the 1970s to study economics at Simon Fraser University.<ref name=":1" />
Born in Nairobi in 1956, Verjee is a fourth generation Kenyan.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/nomadic-architecture-showcased-two-decades-ago-at-burnaby-jamatkhana/|title=Nomadic Architecture showcased two decades ago at Burnaby Jamatkhana|last=Ismailimail|first=|date=October 4, 2017|website=Ismailimail|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=48799&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=fr&pID=1&an=verjee&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|title=Artists in Canada|last=National Gallery of Canada|first=|date=January 27, 2006|website=Artists in Canada|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> She moved to Canada in the 1970s to study economics at Simon Fraser University.<ref name=":1" />

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Zainub Verjee
Born1956
Nairobi, Kenya
EducationBA, Business Administration and Economics, Simon Fraser University
Websitehttp://www.zainubverjee.com/

Zainub Verjee is a video artist, curator, writer, arts administrator and public intellectual.[1][2][3]

Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale. She was Film Distribution Manager at the Women in Focus Society, Vancouver. In 1989 Verjee cofounded In Visible Colours with Lorraine Chan of the National Film Board,[4] an international film and video festival and symposium featuring the work of women of colour.[5][6] Following the success of In Visible Colours, she was invited by the Jeanne Sauvé Youth Foundation to lead a workshop on International Forum 1992: globalization and nationalism at the first International Conference for Young Leaders, Montreal.[7]

In the 1990s, she worked for a decade as the Executive Director of the Western Front Society[8] in Vancouver.[9][10][11][12]

As a writer and critic she has been very prolific[13] [14][15]She was the guest editor of a special double issue of the Capilano Review,[16]the first to be entirely devoted to women, featuring thirty-seven British Columbia women writers and visual artists, all working within the theme of struggle, local and global.[17][18]

She has been active as an arts administrator in the field of cultural policy and cultural diplomacy for over 30 years.[19][20][21][22][23]

Born in Nairobi in 1956, Verjee is a fourth generation Kenyan.[24][25] She moved to Canada in the 1970s to study economics at Simon Fraser University.[5]

Career

Selected exhibitions

  • 1993, Racy-Sexy: Race, Culture and Sexuality, Centre A, Vancouver.[4]
  • 1994, New Canadian Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.[5]
  • 1995, TransCulture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.[5]
  • 1997, Traversing Territory, Part II: Road Movies in a Post-Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR.[5]
  • 1997, Tracing Cultures III, Ismaili Jamatkhana and Centre, Burnaby, BC.[5][24][26]
  • Anon. The Instability of the Feminist Subject : A Series of 20 Postcards by Artists. Banff, Alta: [The Banff Centre for the Arts], 1992.DOSSIER: 321 - BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, The (Banff, Alta)
  • Paterson, Andrew J.. Time, Space & Realities : An Exhibition of Video Tapes by John Orentlicher, Doug Porter, Catherine Richards, Janice Tanaka, Zainub Verjee. Toronto, Ont.: A Space, 1995.
  • Cron, Marie-Michèle. Circonvolutions. Montréal, Qc: Opera, 1995.DOSSIER: 390 - OPERA : OUVERTURE PANCULTURELLE POUR L'ÉCHANGE ET LA RÉALISATION DE L'ART / PANCULTURAL OVERTURE FOR EXCHANGE AND REALIZATION OF ART (Montréal, Qc)
  • Kibbins, Gary and Philip, Marlene Nourbese and Campbell, Colin and Barber, Bruce and Christakos, Margaret and Paterson, Andrew James and McLeod, Kathy and Shaw, Nancy and Jeffries, Pat and McCormack, Thelma and Robertson, Clive and Diamond, Sara and Harry, Isobel and Adams, Don and Bean, Robert and Norman, Abigail and Sullivan, Joan and Waterson, Georgia and Yael, B. H. and Amis, Ric and The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Fuse 11: 3. Fall. (1987).
  • Anon. Video Out Distribution Catalogue. Vancouver, BC: Satellite Video Exchange Society, 1996. DOSSIER: 390 - SATELLITE VIDEO EXCHANGE SOCIETY (Video Inn + Video Out, Vancouver, BC
  • Anon. 1996 Video Reference Guide Catalogued by V/Tape. Toronto, Ont.: V Tape, 1996. DOSSIER: 390 - VTAPE (Toronto, Ont.)
  • Henry, Karen and Fife, Connie and Albahari, David and Jamal, Sherazad and Suleman, Zool and Xiao-ping, Li and Thomson, Grace Eiko. Tracing Cultures. Burnaby, BC: Burnaby Art Gallery, 1997. DOSSIER: 353 - BURNABY ART GALLERY (Burnaby)

In 1993 Verjee presented Ecoute s'il pleut (Listen if it's Raining), a French/English video poem to allow the viewer to experience the fullness of silence.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Zainub Verjee". VTape. Retrieved March 11, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ https://talenttolead.ca/steering-committee
  3. ^ https://canadianart.ca/author/zainub-verjee/
  4. ^ a b Davis, Heather (2017). Desire Change. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 283. ISBN 0773549374.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Heather, Rosemary (September 25, 2017). "In Visible Colours". Canadian Art. Retrieved March 11, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ "In Visible Colours": Women in Focus by Monika Gagnon, C Issue 25 Spring 1990
  7. ^ http://www.worldcat.org/title/international-forum-1992-globalization-and-nationalism-proceedings-of-the-first-international-confererence-for-young-leaders-montreal-quebec-canada-may-23-30-1992/oclc/609414416?referer=br&ht=edition
  8. ^ https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/5894/
  9. ^ http://ghostkeeper.gruntarchives.org/essay-ahasiw-is-canada-zainub-verjee.html
  10. ^ http://isea2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/S.Diamond-revised-v1-s.pdf
  11. ^ FRONT, Western Front Society, Vancouver, Nov 1990
  12. ^ Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason edited by George E. Marcus University of Chicago Press, Apr 15, 2000 - Art - 493 pages
  13. ^ https://canadianart.ca/author/zainub-verjee/
  14. ^ [Unknown]. “Kinesis.” Periodicals. Vancouver : Vancouver Status of Women, 1 Oct. 1990. Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. HQ1101.V24 N49. Web. 29 Nov. 2018 <https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kinesis/items/1.0045764>. Kinesis.
  15. ^ https://www.leonardo.info/contributor/8427/zainub-verjee
  16. ^ https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/issues/issue-2-67/
  17. ^ https://front.bc.ca/events/struggle-local-global-issue-book-launch/
  18. ^ The Capilano Review, Capilano College, 1991
  19. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainubverjee/?originalSubdomain=ca
  20. ^ https://canadianart.ca/interviews/in-visible-colours/
  21. ^ http://www.mymississauga.ca/2017/06/14/agm-appoints-four-new-members-board-directors/
  22. ^ https://talenttolead.ca/steering-committee
  23. ^ Ismailimail (September 14, 2016). “Women in Leadership: Zainub Verjee Reflects on the state of culture sector and offers inspirational insights". Ismailimail. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  24. ^ a b Ismailimail (October 4, 2017). "Nomadic Architecture showcased two decades ago at Burnaby Jamatkhana". Ismailimail. Retrieved March 11, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  25. ^ National Gallery of Canada (January 27, 2006). "Artists in Canada". Artists in Canada. Retrieved March 11, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  26. ^ Fife, C., Henry, K. A., Manning, D., & Burnaby Art Gallery (1997). Tracing Cultures. Burnaby, BC: Burnaby Art Gallery. ISBN 0920123295.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ VTape. "Ecoute s'il pleut (Listen if it's Raining)". vtape.org/. Retrieved March 11, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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