Stefka zingt, componeert, schrijft en zet gedichten op muziek. Haar album 'Terwijl ik wachtte..' (2013, teksten Joke van Leeuwen, productie: Reyn Ouwehand) werd door Heaven popmagazine gewaardeerd met een 9 "Sublieme singer-songwriterspop"

“Dit zijn wij vandaag” is een poëtische muziekvoorstelling van singer-songwriter Stephanie Ruijsenaars (Stefka) en de musici -broers Nariman Goran & Monir Goran.

In thinking of where we belong to,In our longing for a place to feel at home,In our search for a lost home - a journey in music,We are connected, we write our common story,Suddenly noticing we’ve found a new Home together This music performance is a collaboration between Dutch singer-songwriter Stephanie Ruijsenaars (Stefka) and the Palestinian ud-player Amer Shanati (refugee from Syria), Robbert Verweij on trumpet, and Christian ten Hoope on bass.In “First there… Show more In thinking of where we belong to,In our longing for a place to feel at home,In our search for a lost home - a journey in music,We are connected, we write our common story,Suddenly noticing we’ve found a new Home together This music performance is a collaboration between Dutch singer-songwriter Stephanie Ruijsenaars (Stefka) and the Palestinian ud-player Amer Shanati (refugee from Syria), Robbert Verweij on trumpet, and Christian ten Hoope on bass.In “First there was Home” four musicians are searching for a lost home. This homeland you’ve left because it is too dangerous to stay there. This safe pace where you’ve lived all your life, meanwhile the world around you changed, and you can’t find yourself in it anymore. “First there was Home” will take the audience trough a varied musical landscape, consisting of new music, and arrangements of songs that are based in our collective memory.The premiere of "Eerst was er Thuis / First there was Home" at Fringe Theatre Festival Delft 2016 was very well received by the audience, and the project continued succesfully by performing at Haags UIT Festival 2016, Festival Rederij Lampedusa on a former refugee boat ‘Mijnheer Vrijdag’/‘Alhadj Djumaa’ , Rietveld Theater en Bibliotheek Den Haag (B-Unlimited). And for VluchtelingenWerk Noord Nederland in Assen, Leeuwarden, Groningen.Scheduled for december: Oude Dorpskerk, Leidschendam (9/12), De Nieuwe Poort, Amsterdam (15/12), Fakkeltocht voor de Vrede, Eindhoven (24/12). Show less

Als pedagogisch coach schreef ik het pedagogisch beleidsplan voor Hestia Kinderopvang, Hestia’s werkwijze is o.a. gebaseerd op de Reggio Emilia pedagogiek. Ook stelde ik het beeldmateriaal samen. .