Poet Laureate for Lambeth award
I officially became Poet Laureate For Lambeth on October 27th last year at my Inauguration event at Queen Elizabeth hall on the Southbank. As a performance Poet, Storyteller, writer, I've performed for various brands. Virgin Media, National Lottery, Roundhouse, Bacardi, Elevate and many others. I've run workshops and performed across the country to all kinds of crowds, all kinds of sizes from 10 people to 2000 people.
It's the people in this borough that helped me make a living from doing what I started out doing for fun. But it hasn't been easy. Establishing the Poet Laureate post is for the writer who needs a platform that hopefully gives them some protective layers as they make their way through the glass ceiling. Being a creative, an artist and an entrepreneur can be a lonely journey. Having a whole borough behind you is literally a stepping stone.
WATCH - We are the Culture Happening
When our Granparents arrived during the Windrush period of the 50s & 60s, the plan was to always go back home to the Caribbean at some point. Things didn’t turn out that way for most of the elders. So, they found a way to bring their Caribbean home to them through music, food, fashion and language, which has now given many places in London its famous reputation , like Lambeth. This exhibition is to capture the moments that act as a doorway into our culture where the environment disappears and we get to escape the oppression of Lambeth for a moment. We do this by embodying our culture each time we indulge in it.
