February 8, 10:00 am
Black History Month at St. Margaret’s
On February 8, Sha’Chondria “Icon” Sibley will be the guest at St. Margaret’s 10:00 am service where she will read 2 of her poems.
Later that afternoon at 3:00 pm, St. Margaret’s will present “An Afternoon Delight with Sha’Chondria” where we will spend time with Icon and her artful storytelling. Sandwiches, cookies, coffee, and tea will be available. All are welcome to bring desserts!
Sha’Condria “Icon” Sibley is a Central Louisiana-born and longtime New Orleans-based storyteller and sage, poet, writer, performing artist, visual artist, teaching artist, singer, songwriter, actress, wellness advocate, and visionary, whose work centers the voices of (Southern) Blk/Indigenous Women/Girls/People through ancestral remembrance and recollection, present position and power, and future hope and healing. Her work spans across page, stage, canvas, music, talk radio, and short film.
Raised in the small-town, southern missionary Baptist church tradition with an educational background in biology and public health, her work naturally intersects between spirituality and healing. A proponent of poetry and art as healing and liberation tools, Icon shares her work and workshops inside schools, universities, prisons, juvenile detention centers, at conferences and festivals and has worked for over a decade and counting, creating, organizing, and hosting community-centered, arts-driven events.
Sha’Condria was the artist in residence for the Organizing For Mission Network’s annual Contextual Gathering in June 2025 where eight diocesan members got to spend transformative time with Icon and other faith-based organizers.
