AzizaMoqia🇨🇦🇸🇴

Poet - written, slam, spokenword.

Traveler. Barista. Volunteer. Student.

2019 Youth Poet Laureate, City of Victoria

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I’m doing a retrospective of this past year of being the @CityofVictoria 2019 #YouthPoetLaureate. I’m tagging it #12MonthsofYPL, as it runs the 12 days prior to Christmas. Each day will recap a month. Some posts will be the highlights, some the everyday. #yyj #yyjarts

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The end of #Uni101, my class at @uvic! 
Clockwise from top: Dr @e_ekelly, Student Liaison Cheri, my classmate Danny, me speaking at ceremony, centre is Dr Chris Goto-Jones. #uvic #studentlife #12MonthsofYPL

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How cool is this? Kicking off my last month as #YouthPoetLaureate, @CocoLeighLoo and I were interviewed on @TheZone913 by @PolPlastino. #yyj #12MonthsofYPL

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I felt privileged to be asked to perform and speak at @OxfamCanada's #MuseumWithoutAHome stop in #yyj. I learned about how #Oxfam works to #makechangehappen, especially in the lives of women and children. #12MonthsofYPL

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My Mum likes to #Androidify her friends and family. This is how she androidified me. #prettygood #12MonthsofYPL

https://t.co/CvpSncKyi3 #notthesame

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I was invited to attend @vicbookprize #ButlerBookPrize at @UnionClubofBC. #yyj Poet Laureate @WildePoet did a reading. Afterwards I met #yyjarts maven Pam Madoff, & authors @achakos @aidan_drawin. Also got to sit @gregorCraigie's table! #somanywriters #CanLit #12MonthsofYPL

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Hit up @PNE_Playland this summer. Watched @ExtremeKov show & got cool souvenir shield & sword (recycled jousting poles). Also tried #Butterbeer. Then watched @SmokeyRobinson show. Saw lots, but need more time next summer! 😀 #writelifebalance #dayforplaynotslam #12MonthsofYPL

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Enjoyed the #BahamasRelief 🇧🇸 fundraiser in support of my friend, the amazing talented @AsiyahRobinson1. Really good beats by @IAmCalebHart and friends. 🎤 #yyjarts #yyjmusic #12MonthsofYPL

(me, @deardubow, and Asiyah)

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Delved into jam-making this summer. Or as I call it, the many jam makings. The many makings of jam? At least they mostly worked out, and no damage to the kitchen! That’s a win, right?
#writelifebalance #dayforplaynotslam #12MonthsofYPL

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Always fun to walk around the @townofsidneybc’s #SidneyStreetMarket and check out the handcrafted items, farm produce, and locally-made goods. You get to pose with mascots too. #SidneySeagull #writelifebalance #dayforplaynotslam #12MonthsofYPL

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Made it to #Esquimalt in July for @TownshipArts’ Memorial Park Music Festival, to hear @sgreaves singing.
Thanks #TCAC President @WSwanVictoria for fun events in the Township of @EsquimaltBC!
#yyjarts #yyjmusic #12MonthsofYPL

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Performed @CityofVictoria #poetlaureate @WildePoet’s event - #WildeAboutSappho. The guests were talented, & I gained valuable insight into poets from older generations. As PL, John serves as a mentor to the #youthpoetslaureate during their terms. #youthpoetlaureate #12MonthsofYPL

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To celebrate #CanadaDay #SomaliaIndependenceDay, & my performance, went to @thecourtneyroom for dinner.
I’m not much of a fish person, but the sablefish was grand! The restaurant is in one of my favourite hotels, @MagnoliaHtl, in downtown #yyj. @myDVBA #poetslife #12MonthsofYPL

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How crazy to think that I would end up here some day - on the Main Stage at #CanadaDay, in front of the @BCLegislature!!!! 
I performed #Warmth and #ImmigrantOpenYourEyes.
Thank you #Atomique 🙏, and @elli_hart_music ♥️.
#treasureforever #yyjarts #12MonthsofYPL

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Was happy to support #RooftopRhymes, a #poetry fundraiser for the @TonguesofFire #VicSlam Team to compete in the #BigfootRegionalPoetrySlam in #PDX. Cool roof @dakrotisserie. 

#VictoriaPoetryProject #yyjarts #12MonthsofYPL

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Family time! One of my brothers, my sister-in-law, and my uncle all came home to visit this Spring. We might have had fun. #justabit #writelifebalance #12MonthsofYPL

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Visited this @ArtSeaCAC art show. First time I encountered Wendy Duffield's work. Now the proud owner of a #CollageGirlsClassof1928!  #oneofakind #yyjarts #12MonthsofYPL

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#LIMELIGHT 2019 Youth Artists Exhibition proved to be - unsurprisingly - another talented and spectacular display by local secondary school artists. Music ensembles, kazoo orchestra, #slampoetry, #spokenword, visual arts + more @SaanichParksRec ArtsCentre. #yyjarts #12MonthsofYPL

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Out on the town, and I feel like I'm channeling @thetiffanypratt. #iknowitsnotpink #boldhairboldcolours #12MonthsofYPL

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A sunny day seemed like a good day to watch a @HarbourCats game, and try out the #zipline.
#writelifebalance #dayforplaynotslam #12MonthsofYPL

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I read #TimelyExpectations for @CityofVictoria Council. Do you ever feel like you are running out of #time, among many things? I did, and that was the inspiration for this poem. Writing helps control #anxiety. #mentalhealth #yyjarts #12MonthsofYPL