Khadija Heeger
Cape Town, South Africa
Poet, performer and youth facilitator
Khadija is a poet, performer and facilitator. In 2009, her poetry theatre piece Stone Words was at the National Arts Festival and in October 2013, she will perform at the Festival d’Automne a Paris with the Cape Cultural Collective as part of France South African Seasons 2012 2013. She is a facilitator with the Scalabrini Centre, running cultural cohesion workshops in schools. Her first poetry collection, Beyond the Delivery Room, published by Modjadji Books, will be released later this year.