Nasima Bee is a performance poet, producer and creative practitioner. She’s a trustee for Manchester’s Young Identity, and a patron for Contact theatre. Nasima uses art as a means of activism and her work is an exploration of the everyday through a personal lens that connects to its audience through inquisition and conversation. Nasima focusses on the human, centring stories that are unheard, misrepresented or ignored. Her commissioned works have ranged between performance, theatre, essays, workshop facilitation, film and audio with poetry at the forefront.
For Manchester Independents 2025 Nasima will be creating a visual representation of brown boy joy, with a performance of the poem a love letter for the remaining softness left in brown boys, for when the rest is taken from them weaved into the piece. Working with filmmaker Alina Akbar, sound designer Balraj Singh Samrai, and photographer Hawwa Alam the project will feature an exhibition as part of the launch of the work
