Shahrazi
Sara O. Shahsavari (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer, and cross cultural community-builder. Born to a family of migrants who came to Canada as refugees from Iran and Poland, she has found herself in the middle of a larger moving picture.
Sara uses art to express and explore themes of gender, culture, self, home, nature, spirituality, freedoms, dreams, borders, traumas, destruction, migration, change, creation, and growth. Their work explores the tension that distance and diaspora creates in our lives and how it leads us to journey to a new world of understanding of ourselves.
Sara presents work under the name of Shahrazi. She is a multi-instrumentalist in several other projects including the lead of local band Television Rd, while also booking shows for others as the founder of Borderless Records. They have been the editor-in-chief of Arthur Newspaper, a radio programmer at Trent Radio, and a mentor for youth at Peterborough Rock Camp For Girls.*
Most recently, Sara has been working for the New Canadians Centre as a social service worker, regularly facilitating relationships between refugees, immigrants, and volunteers while coordinating groups and workshops in the community. She started an ESL group for kids called: Art Skills for Life and is currently putting together a music group for newcomers as well.
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Shahrazi; somewhere in between the earth and the stars, she explores themes of diaspora, spirit, love, war, and rebirth. Dreamy, soulful sounds from the woods to the water to the moon and back, sinking all the way to your core (and pulling out subconscious moods and roots). You will be happy, filled with euphoric giddiness, you will dive, be challenged, you will dance and your heart will sing.
Their upcoming EP, Journey to Shahraz, mixes elements of nature, improv, the spirit of jazz and punk infused with rock, middle eastern tones, velvety vocals drenched in poetry, eastern folk fusion, surreal soul, psychic rhythms, offbeat grooves, and sensual dreamy drone dances….
