Curation
PHOTO OF Bittersweet BY LYNDON DOUGLAS COURTESY OF RENAISSANCE ONE (1999)
1999: Curator of a UK tour of Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry ( The Women’s Press . 1998, editor: Karen McCarthy) featuring Patience Agbabi, Bernardine Evaristo, Khefri Riley (KA’frique), Raman Mundair, Karen McCarthy, Malika Booker, Vanessa Richards, Dorothea Smartt, Janet Kofi-Tsepko and Parm Kaur.
2000 - 2001: Curator of Modern Love (Nominated for Best Theatre/Play at the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (EMMA) 2001): UK tour of writers and artists exploring love and modern relationships ( Renaissance One, 2001, editor: Melanie Abrahams) across 20 UK locations including Luton (Linton Kwesi Johnson), Queen Elizabeth Hall (Ty, Anthony Joseph, Imani Uzuri, Malika Booker, Francesca Beard, Roger Robinson, Jamika Ajalon, Patience Agbabi, Scorpio The Nemesis, Jacob Sam-La Rose. Jason Yarde, James Yarde), Leicester, Birmingham and Manchester.
2002: ‘On Freedom’: a collaboration with Turner prize-winning artist Chris Ofili to produce a spoken word / live literature event at Victoria Miro Gallery and a book of new writing responding to his exhibition Freedom alongside his artwork.
2002: Co-curator with Topher Campbell of ‘Facing Leicester Square’, a live recording and broadcast of new writing by six prose writers including Mat Fraser, Sophie Woolley and Courttia Newland and with actors including Adjoa Andoh and Wil Johnson for BBC Radio 3 drama
2004: Curator of Kin, a tour featuring 33 writers, musicians and artists presenting work across 45 venues in the UK. The project creatively responded to the book KIN edited by Karen McCarthy (Serpents Tail, 2003) through exploring the way artists formed kinships together through music, travel and socialising in poetry, spoken word and clubbing scenes. I was editor of a new commemorative anthology KIN (Renaissance One, 2004)
KIN GROUP SHOT II by LYNDON DOUGLAS COURTESY RENAISSANCE ONE
2006 ‘Off Centre’: a literature and education project partnering with the Barbican and schools in the City of London exploring words and writing that is left field, culminating in a theatrically staged show at the Barbican http://www.renaissanceone.co.uk/productions]
2010: Project Manager with a curatorial role for Re:freshers at the Wellcome Collection, a 3 day a three-day festival designed to reconnect, replenish, and share knowledge among cultural leaders, for the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP)
2012: ‘London Is The Place For Me’: a 2012 festival at Kiln Theatre marking 50 years of Independence for Trinidad and Tobago and co-curated by Dominique Le Gendre and commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission featuring 50 writers, musicians, actors, artists and creatives.
2016: Curator of Mentoring Three Ways, a project exploring contemporary mentoring models which presented Testing Ground industry panels at which creatives could pitch ideas, one-to-one and group mentoring sessions and talks on literature and creativity. Funded by Arts Council England.
2018: Guest Curator for the Bronte Parsonage and Museum, exploring themes of 'other' and 'otherness' to create a series of talks, walks, salons and Trini-style lime events.
2022: Curator of This Is Who We Are, a project featuring a collective of 25 global majority and first nations women artists and creatives from the UK and Australia, and including wellbeing salons, online and in-person events, and a online arts festival. Part of the British Council’s UK-Australia season.
2022 - 2024: Co-curator of Reframing The Margins, a project directed with consultant Kath Melbourne which offered mentoring, online salons and peer advocacy to 20 global majority and first nations women artists and creatives from UK and Australia, supported by the British Council.
2025: Curator of On Curiosity, a project exploring contemporary models of practice that encourage creativity, play and frameworks for wellbeing.
