Upcoming:

• Politics and the Pen, May 7, 2024, Ottawa
• Winner of an Irish Novel Fair, February 16-17, 2024, virtual
• Book Launch: “The Uncaged Voice,” Anthology published by Cormorant Books, Toronto, October 24, 2023
• “Rastegan”, the winner of 2023 Joy Kogawa Fiction Award
• “There You Are” shortlisted for Exeter Novel Prize, UK, 2023
• “There You Are” long listed for the Joy Kogawa Fiction Award, 2022
• Berton House Writer-in-Residence, 2023
• “Uncaged Voices,” Anthology, Cormorant Books, Toronto, 2023
• Sage Hill Writing, St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, Saskatchewan, 2022
• Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, USA, 2022
• “There You Are,” Reading at the Wallace Stegner House, Eastend, Saskatchewan, September 16, 2021
• “The Secret of Names,” Reading at the Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver, June 24, 2021
• “Dear Reader: A Letter Writing Workshop”, The Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver, May 27, 2021,
• Creative Writing Workshop in celebration of Culture Days, September 26, 2020 https://culturedays.ca/en/events/b81bcf73-0170-47e1-a2c3-1e09307e1820
• “The Wise, Old Woman” by Attar, Morning Owl Coffee, November 20, 2019
• “Stories from around the World”, Royal Oak, November 12, 2019
• “Kings and Ordinary People”
  Storytelling by Maria Saba on Saturday, November 2, 2019
  Time: 2:00 to 2:25 (please arrive 5 minutes before the start time)
  Location: Nepean Centrepointe Library, 101 Centrepointe Drive,

  Ottawa
  Room: Council Chamber (Atrium)
  Language: English
  Cost: Free of Charge
• Persian Dance Workshop as part of Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW), Nepean Creative Arts Centre, June 23, 2019
• Persian Dance performance, Hazeldean Library, June 22, 2019
• Persian dance workshop at L’Arche Ottawa Community Retreat Day, May 11, 2019

  

• Storytelling at “Tales from the Silk Road Festival” at the National Arts Centre, Peter Herrndof Place, May 4 and 5, 2019
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• Storytelling at Children Storytelling Festival, Centrepointe Library, Ottawa, November 3, 2018

• Reading at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, July 20, 2018
• Author reading, Picton Public Library, June 21, 2018 
• Integrated Persian Dance, Doug Fluhrer Park, Kingston, June 10, 2018
• Al Purdy A-Frame Residency, Ameliasburg, 2018
• http://mariasabaye.blogspot.com/2018/05/al-purdy-frame-residency.html
• “Letters & Diaries”, Reading at Ottawa Independent Writers, February 20, 2018
• “Our Lives are Mysteriously Intertwined, Personal Stories,” at Stories & Tea, February 13, 2018, 7:00-7:30 pm, Tea Party Cafe, 119 York Street, Ottawa
• Storytelling, “The Boy Who Loved Sweets Too Much”, Nov. 4, 2017, Children’s Storytelling Festival 2017, Nepean Centrepointe Library, Ottawa
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• Writing Workshop, October 1, 2017, 11:00-12:00, Nepean Creative Arts Centre
• Reading at Sweny, Dublin, Ireland, August 17, 2017
• Reading, Ottawa Independent Writers, June 20, 2017
• Storytelling at Trophy, Ottawa Byward Market, June 17, 2017 (http://mariasabaye.blogspot.ca/2017/06/a-visit-to-trophy-pop-up-city-of-tents.html)

• Dance performance and workshop, Kanata-Carleton Cultural Festival, May 27, 2017

• Stories & Tea, February 14, 2017, 7:00-7:30 pm, Tea Party Cafe, 119 York Street, Ottawa

  

• Creative Writing workshop, October 1, 2016, 11:30-12:30, Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa
• Persian Dance workshop for women, October 2, 2016, Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa
• https://www.facebook.com/events/186086911818967/

• Children’s Festival, Ottawa Story Tellers, Saturday, November 5, 2016, 12:00-12:50, Children’s Room, Lower level, Nepean Centrepointe Library, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa K2G 5K7

Past Events:

• “The Dead”, Writers’ Studio Reading Series, May 4, 2016, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff
• “Vis o Ramin and Zar”, Iranian Student Association at the University of Ottawa, July 27, 2012
• Book Launch, Vis and Ramin, October 23, 2011, Sina Cultural Centre, Montreal