Mixed Media Video, Artwork, Stories, A World in a Suitcase
“I am a woman artist. My aim is to bring to life stories via video, animation and art as a means to explore ideas about identity and belonging.
I am an illustrator, storyteller and published writer as well as a Creative Director of A World in a Suitcase. The power of images and stories places us in an historical context and helps us make sense of the world, in finding out who we are and who we can become”. Myrna Shoa
I am an illustrator, storyteller and published writer as well as a Creative Director of A World in a Suitcase. The power of images and stories places us in an historical context and helps us make sense of the world, in finding out who we are and who we can become”. Myrna Shoa
World Turned Upside Down is an animation I made in January 2018. The World did turn upside down in 2020 with the global pandemic.
"Over Lockdown 2020- 2021 I conceived and created 2 video animations. The Man in The Red Suit and You Can't Come In. I also made Our World in Lockdown with Timuchin Dindjer. I recorded Inma Meruelo reading her delightful book she wrote and illustrated for children, Once Upon a Time in Covid -19 Time". Myrna Shoa
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9 people from diverse communities share their responses to lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020.. Produced and directed by: Timuchin Dindjer and Myrna Shoa (C)
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"The Man in The Red Suit - Life is like a jigsaw puzzle is an experimental video animation created during Lockdown, 2020 (C)
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"You Can't Come In is a video animation."You need a password to enter". is an experimental video animation created during Lockdown, 2021 (C)
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A World In A Suitcase
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A World in a Suitcase is an innovative mixed media ongoing visual storytelling project, conceived and developed by Myrna Shoa and Timuchin Dindjer that inspires people from diverse communities to take a fresh look at their 'Worlds' through sharing stories, art, photography, paper collage & film.
A World in a Suitcase works with a diverse range of Grassroots community groups ensuring that there is a tangible, meaningful outcome, that the participants can feel ownership and part of. The aim of the project is to foster closer relations, understanding, empathy and tolerance between communities. |
Strange Ways Stories
I have written and illustrated true family stories, Strange Ways Stories published by Gatehouse Books.
The Sofa, The Marriage, The Box of Chocolates and Rosie & the Iron Bar. I co - wrote with author Hazel Riley and also illustrated the beginner readers 'From The Heart' series, retelling the Greek myths in a modern urban setting.
The Sofa, The Marriage, The Box of Chocolates and Rosie & the Iron Bar. I co - wrote with author Hazel Riley and also illustrated the beginner readers 'From The Heart' series, retelling the Greek myths in a modern urban setting.
The Fool
The Fool women's fashion 1970s
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Myrna Shoa created The Fool website as an historical record and resource showing how she, Ruti and other creative women gave birth to a successful enterprise. The Fool a designer women’s hippie fashion company started in 1973 with a little bit of magic. The Fool caught the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time.
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The Fool designed manufactured and sold colourful, flowing, lacy hippie style women’s clothes around The Portobello Road area at a time of great change. From Aden, Manchester, Eritrea, Cheetham Hill, Scotland, Clydebank, Dvinsk, Russia, Ruti, Myrna and Aury set up The Fool.
This hotchpotch combination made the magic happen brought the spark alive and created a successful entrepreneurial business.
This hotchpotch combination made the magic happen brought the spark alive and created a successful entrepreneurial business.
A Childhood Remembered
Sandra and Myrna
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"From 2006-2007 the last years of Sandra's life we passionately gathered together our stories from our childhood for this website. We disagreed sometimes about what happened realising that we saw the world through our own eyes. This enlivened the recollections, made them richer. Sandra died in November 2007.
Without this wonderful story gathering I would not have been able to write, illustrate and have published Strange Ways Stories about our shared upbringing," Myrna Shoa |
Once Upon a Time in Covid-19 Time. Inma Meruelo wrote and illustrated a book for children Once Upon a Time in Covid -19.
"I produced a video animation of Inma reading her marvellous book." Myrna Shoa
"I produced a video animation of Inma reading her marvellous book." Myrna Shoa
We are bound together by stories, our own personal story we tell ourselves as well as our national story, of the larger world we live in, that we share with others". Myrna Shoa
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