****I'll be touring western Canada with my Trio to play 13 shows in 17 days.****
May 10: Creative City Centre, Regina SK 8pm
May 11: 23 Main Street, Moose Jaw SK 7pm
May 12: House Coffee Sanctuary, Calgary AB 7pm
May 14: House Concert, Golden BC 7pm
May 15: Cedar Creek Cafe, Winlaw, BC 6pm
May 17: Caffè Fantastico, Victoria BC 7pm
May 18: House Concert, Victoria BC 8pm
May 20: House Concert, Vancouver BC 8pm
May 22: Commodore Grand Cafe, Kamloops BC 7:30pm
May 23: Olive Bistro, Jasper AB 7:30pm
May 24: Haven Social Club, Edmonton AB 10pm
May 25: House Concert, North Battleford, SK 8pm
May 26: Lydia’s Pub, Saskatoon, SK 10pm
www.malikasellami.com or on the FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/280380818707806/
Please come encourage us and say hi, I always love having couchsurfers at my shows!!!
**Update: April 2nd 2012**
I live in a basement suite, on my own, with a lease and all, yeahhhh!!! It's walkable distance to downtown (15 min), and 35 to Broadway area. Buses are easy to access from my place, and i also have a car if you need a ride somewhere. Hope we can hang out too! There is a bike you can borrow as well. Saskatoon is that kind of city you can bike everywhere. Hit me up if you need a place to stay while you come to Saskatoon, I might be able to host you! Hitchhikers welcome.
For emergencies, please text or call my phone: 306-371-1804
**Update: June 5 2011**
I just moved back into my little house in a parking lot in a back alley not so far from Broadway ave. I can't really host right now but email me or call if you wanna hang out, go for a walk or have a coffee at the roastery. Enjoy Summer in Saskatoon!
**Update: March 22 2011**
i just moved with a friend (with her 3 teenagers, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 1 tarentula) this is for a couple of months, until it is nice out and i can get my motorhome out of storage. I can't host you for the moment, but feel free to email me if you want to hang out, walk around town or by the river, go for coffee or music shows in town! Enjoy Saskatoon! :)
For EMERGENCIES, call or text me: 306-371-1804
**Update: March 1 2011**
Touring Canada with CS SPIKES...
Come by to one of my shows!
schedule of the "From Fire to Snow" Tour March 2011:
I am currently on a farm in San Salvador, Entre Rios, Argentina.
Coming back to Canada end of February and touring (with my music) most of March back to Saskatoon where I'll be kinda stable for a while. I'll have space to host you starting end of March...
**Update: September 30 2010**
***Beau Box, my Rv is stored for the winter and I´m off to explore South America for 5 months and manifest some Love and play Music along the way!
Check out my website for next concerts:
http://www.malikasellami.com
Listen to my music and encourage an independent traveling musician here:
http://malikasellami.bandcamp.com
Or join my fan page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Malika-Sellami/61634094928?ref=ts
Just a tip for the newbees here on CS: Before sending a couch request for the first time, please read the how to write a couch request section and fill up your profile with info and pics of yourself, I am sure your future host would like to know a little bit about you too before they open their house to you! Happy surfing!
Dave 'Spikes' Breese 37, Male Granada, Granada Nicaragua Friends since May 2006 "We met when Malika hosted me in Quebec City." Friendship Type: Best Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami 30+1430+
MOSCADA 32, Female Quebec, Quebec Canada Friends since January 2008 "In Saskatoon. I asked her to do theater workshops with the kids I work with. We haven't stop seing each other since. " Friendship Type: Best Friend
Meghan Thomas 29, Female Sawi, Chumphon Thailand Friends since August 2009 "met at the burn, reconnected in san diego" Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami 333
Tanya Mukherjee 39, Female Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire Wales Friends since January 2007 "She lived with me for ages...." Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami 203
Robbie Johnston 30, Male Donegal, Donegal Ireland (Republic of) Friends since July 2008 "Malika made Burning Man 08 a week to remember. " Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami
Glen Caballero 35, Male Seattle, Washington United States Friends since August 2007 "One of the first great travelers I've met thru CS. True friend and inspirational character." Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami
Theresa Penner 39, Female Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada Friends since July 2007 "Saskatoon comunity and co-workers" Friendship Type: Good Friend
Klaire Rueckert 34, Female Seattle, Washington United States Friends since July 2007 "Malika thankfully surfed my couch in Seattle, through BM 07-08" Friendship Type: Close Friend I vouched for Malika Sellami 10
Wandering Tree 33, Male Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Friends since March 2008 "met in a cool pub in saskatoooooooon!" Friendship Type: Friend
Emotional, Creative, Excessive, Spontaneous, Curious, I am a free spirit, a new soul, a nomadic traveler, a gypsy folk musician who needs to connect with the Earth and its people.
I left Quebec City in July 2006, after quitting my teaching job, giving up my dog and selling all my belongings. I traveled and lived abroad for 2 and a half years. Then I found Saskatoon, in the middle of the Canadian Prairies, where the sense of community is strong and where the land of living skies and its people are powerful, where I connected with myself and found what I was put on Earth for, where I felt happy and grounded more than ever. After settling down for 1 year, discovering song writing and singing to a higher level and making a mini album (Manifest some Love), I toured a little of our big canadian country for 3 weeks with other Prairie musicians. In August 2009, I decided to leave Canada and explore the Western American States and Baja California, Mexico for 8 months. Then last year, it was South America for 5 months to learn Spanish and get ready to record another music project. Touring here and there and now back in Saskatoon for the year, I am currently sub-teaching in the french immersion schools and preparing to release my second album in March 2012! Playing music everywhere in town with my band and organizing my music career and future tours in the Spring... I am fairly busy but i still want to host when i can!
How I Participate in CS
I have been a member of CS since April 20th 2006 and only a couple of profiles were deleted in the big crash, unfortunately so was mine, even though I was an active member! I have been a Nomadic Ambassador for more than 2 years now. I love greeting new members and help them start their couchsurfing adventure! I also quite enjoy meeting members and organizing gatherings and making CS more active in the cities or towns I pass by or live in. I love to surf couches, share travel stories and host in my RV or when I have a house and meet or tour those crazy couchsurfers all over the world! What's your story???
CouchSurfing Experience
Loads, there are so many! Check out my profile! :)
Instead of listing all those amazing couchsurfing experiences I had, here is a list of the Crazy places I slept in...
*A petrol station in Kars, Turkey...
*The jungle in Chiapas, Mexico...
*A camping site with no tent, few feet from the highway with mosquitoes and rats as night companions in Valencia, Spain...
*A gliding club with a huge rat as night companion for several weeks in Dhekelia, Cyprus...
*A squat with 10 dogs in Grenoble, France...
*A tv production office in Mumbai, India...
*The middle of Black Rock City Desert, Nevada, with dust storms and intense sharing community (Burning Man) for over 50 days so far (5 years in a row)!
* In an RV, around Baja California, the west coast of USA and Canada...
*In the a lemon delivery truck's passenger sit in a truck stop in northern Argentina...
Interests
Performing, smiling, meeting unforgettable people and having unforgettable conversations, being in love, the ocean, surfing, yoga, meditation, music, Saskatoon, beaches, water, the smells of nature, monkeys, trees, monkey trees, laughing, learning, dreaming, crying, walking, camping, improvisation, creation, self expression, spontaneity, hitch hiking, mountain climbing, exploring, traveling, RV-ing...
Check out my music if you want to have a little peak of what I am playing...:and if you feel like you wanna encourage a traveling musician, you can find my "Manifest some Love" EP everywhere online...
Be true to myself and to others, live with the least expectations as possible, be happy with what I have and who I am, enjoy the journey, not the destination and try to respect all those personal philosophies everyday of my life...
Music, Movies, Books
Music: Dumas, Xavier Rudd, Joni Mitchell, Bowerbirds, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hot Chip, Radiohead, Beck, Ariane Moffat, Ben Harper, Tonolec, Lisandro Aristimuno, Jack Johnson, Newton Faulkner, Lila Downs, Gotan Project, Salmonela Dub, Gorillaz, Mother Mother, Hey Rosetta!, Bjork, Jean Leloup, Portishead, Metric, Dispatch, The Avett Brothers, The Postal Service, Red Hot Chili Peppers, La Zurda, Dobacaracol, Tryo, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Johnny Cash and many more...
Types of People I enjoy
We learn from every entity, according to our momentum of awareness, despite their form, their energy, their wisdom. I have learned recently to focus on similarities when differences and judgments obstruct our objective view on people, spirits, animals, or things. Acceptance of our differences, crossing paths and sharing journeys for an undetermined time without knowing the future, letting go of the past and living the moment is important, cause that's all we have. It is a hard task, but our level of energy, sense of community and collectivity through all that will bring us together.
It's all about sharing!!! Because of Couchsurfing, I crossed path with some people who radically changed my life. The journey is only starting...
Teach, Learn, Share
we will share, teach and learn... What? I don't know. Let's connect first and see what happens!
One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done
*Been to Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada, U.S.A. and survived the dust storms... 4 years in a row!
*Hitchhiked more than 75 000 km in many different countries!
*Swam in a lake infested by crocodiles in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
*Volunteered in a AIDS center in Puna, India.
*Admired the immensity of the wonderful Canadian Prairies and smiled, naively...
*Volunteered in an orphanage in Riosuccio, Colombia, teaching theatre to lovely kids...
*Explored the Amazonian Jungle, near Iquitos, Peru, seen some amazing animals and even hold an albinos baby sloth!
Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project
"Isn't it, out of the blue, out of the blue,
Those meetings, when you need something new.
Isn't it, out of the blue, out of the blue,
Those feelings, when you meet someone new.
A strong connection,
Ephemeral, random,
We're here for a reason,
That is meant to happen.
Out of nowhere,
When we're unaware..."
This summary is not a replacement for reading references; it's a quick summary to help you get started. At a glance, you can see how many references a member has, and how many of them are positive, neutral, and negative.
In the second line, you'll see how many references came from people who hosted this member, surfed with them, and traveled with them. These numbers won't always add up to the total: some references are not categorized, and some may be categorized as more than one thing.
When viewing this summary, don't jump to conclusions! Things that are negative for one person may be positive for another, and vice versa. It's important to read references carefully and evaluate what that information means to you.
Malika was a kinda and generous host. Although we only stayed one night, we were able to share and discuss music and felt very comfortable there! I hope we meet again down the road and play some music together!!!
Malika is a wonderful person full of so much life and energy. Her amazing stories will fill up your day with wonder, and her voice will fill your soul with rays of positivity. A true musician with a passion for what she does, always moving forward and spreading her gift to all of those around her. You would be wise to let this positive spirited soul into your homes and into your lives! :D
Kiki is amazing!!! She made me feel so welcome at Burning Man Couch Burners camp and we got to bar tend together at the meat & greet party. I would beg her to stay with me if she would come visit in San Diego. Come to San Diego and we could host a CS Burning Man benefit for the CB Burning Man camp. BTW, You are more then welcome to surf my couch :)
I discovered Malika and her music when she came in Quebec City for a show. I didn't miss one since then ! She is a true musician and traveller. It's always a pleasure to listen to her when come to Quebec City :)
Malika was very artistic, put hemp wraps in my wifes hair, played music and very kind.
From Kevin Webb Saint Petersburg, United States Sep 21, 2011
Positive
Malika is truly a free spirit with a heart of gold (not to mention an awesome singing voice!). I'm so glad I had the chance to meet and get to know her even a little bit. I hope to get to know you better when I see you next year, my burner friend!
Kiki is great! I can't believe I missed every time you were singing, dustcheck on that one then. You were awesome at camp, many thanks to you, and hope to see you soon on a tour through Europe. You are welcome in NL anytime!
Meeting Malika and her friends made out of visit in Saskatoon an unforgettable experience.
When she sings, plays guitar or harmonica, all the place is permeated by positive energy, feeling that life is beautiful.
She plays from heart, shares good mood as well as take spleen from her friends on her self. She lives at full throttle and she is truly. :)
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