Zainub Verjee CM,[1] (born in 1956) is a Kenyan-born, Canadian video artist, curator, writer, and administrator.
[14][15][16][17] These decades of work in the sector led to boarding and committee appointments, and speaking invitations on national and international forums.
[18][19] In addition to holding positions at Women in Focus, Citizen’s Forum on Canada’s Future -The Spicer Commission, Canada Council for the Arts, and Department of Canadian Heritage, she was engaged by Gordon Campbell, Canadian diplomat and the 35th Mayor of Vancouver on his Vancouver Arts Initiative.
[27][28][29][16][5] She co-authored a letter, on behalf of 75000 artists, to the Prime Minister of Canada on the issue of Basic Income.
[4][40] At the Courtauld Institute of Art in a keynote[41] on In Visible Colours as an experiment in solidarity, Third cinema, women and birth of an aesthetic she spoke of as a witness to the unfolding of the decolonization process.
[44] She led the Artists’ Coalition for Local Colour, raising racism charges against the Vancouver Art Gallery.
[52][22][53] In 1993 Verjee presented Ecoute s'il pleut (Listen if it's Raining), a French/English video poem to allow the viewer to experience the fullness of silence.