Curation
PHOTO OF Bittersweet BY LYNDON DOUGLAS COURTESY OF RENAISSANCE ONE (1999)
group photo of writers and contributors at london is the place for me festival, the british library, producer: renaissance one curator: melanie abrahams (2016)
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 venues including Luton Central Library (Linton Kwesi Johnson and guests), 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) and featuring new writing from Patience Agbabi, Michael Horovitz, Francesca Beard, Ferdinand Dennis, Sophie Woolley, Ty and more.
2002: ‘On Freedom’: a spoken word / live literature event and book project with Turner prize-winning artist Chris Ofili, featuring writers including Roger Robinson, Bidisha, Ray Shell, Francesca Beard and Charlie Dark.
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 artistic and cultural kinships and ties in the group and the ways artists bonded and grew together through music, travel and socialising in poetry and spoken word scenes. Editor of commemorative anthology KIN (Renaissance One, 2004)
KIN: ALL WOMEN GROUP SHOT by lyndon douglas courtesy renaissance one (FEATURING WRITERS FROM KIN: New Fiction by Black and Asian WomeN (SERPENTS TAIL, 2003)
KIN GROUP SHOT II by LYNDON DOUGLAS COURTESY RENAISSANCE ONE
2006 ‘Off Centre’: a live literature and education project that explored words and writing off centre and left field and included a theatrically staged show at the Barbican featuring Nick Barlay, Francesca Beard, Earl Zinger and Charlie Dark http://www.renaissanceone.co.uk/productions]
2010: Guest Curator at the Bluecoat, for the Chapter and Verse literature festival.
2012: ‘London Is The Place For Me’: a 2012 festival at the Tricycle 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.
2014 and 2016: Curator of London Is The Place for Me, Caribbean festivals of literature, cross-arts and liming at Tricycle Theatre, The Tabernacle and the British Library.
2015: Producer of music video London Is The Place For Me as a homage to Lord Kitchener and a celebration of the calypso art form. Featuring Tobago Crusoe, Alexander D Great, James Ingham and Melanie Abrahams
2016: Mentoring Three Ways, a series of Testing Ground industry panels, talks on literature and creativity. From January to December , I gave 50 one-to-one mentoring sessions to artists and practitioners around England.
2018: Curator of London Is The Place For Me, a weekend Caribbean festival of literature and liming at the British Library.
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.
2019 and 2020: Curator of Caribbeanfest, a festival of literature, liming and creativity