Anjalica Solomon

Anjalica Solomon is a genderfluid Desi singer, songwriter, lyricist, pianist, clarinet player, loop pedalist, poet, spoken word artist, organizer, and multi-disciplinary performer based in what is colonially known as Vancouver, BC on the stolen and unsurrendered territories of the Coast Salish, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. You can listen to their poem/ song Honey Queen on all streaming platforms!

Anjalica is a leader in arts administration, with experience in working in the forefront of Vancouver’s arts and cultural scene which includes: Indian Summer Festival, UBC Arts and Culture, Verses Festival of Words, the TD Coastal Jazz Festival and The Cultch Theatre. As an arts educator, Anjalica has developed workshops to generate healing poetry, collage to classrooms across the lower mainland with Wordplay Vancouver. With deep roots in Vancouver’s poetry scene, Anjalica has served as an executive organizer and host of UBC Slam Poetry and as a frequent host and hug-giver at Vancouver Poetry Slam. Their poetic work often seeks to proclaim the possibilities of love and resilience. Anjalica is a poet of startling emotional intellect and candor whose work testifies to a deep faith in beauty, the power of nature, and ultimately, the human capacity to salvage integrity, radiance, and joy from moments of struggle. In this way, Anjalica Solomon’s poems and performances offer robust visions of hope, tenacity, and love.

Anjalica is currently conjuring an arts collective of queer brown women and non-binary artists and working on their forthcoming collection with Write Bloody Publishing.

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