Current Projects
PLOT 17 - Apple and Snakes
Our hiphop, eco-focused children’s show. Touring nationally.
Music mark
Rap symposium for national membership
World book day
Strategic committee, selection committee 2020-21, host of world book day book club interviewing suck authors as Francesca Simon and Benjamin Zephaniah
HipHop Love Books: Kenny Baraka reads ‘The Go-Away Bird’ by Julia Donaldson
Kenny Baraka reads ‘The Go-Away Bird’ by Julia Donaldson
Plot 17
Commissioned by Apples and Snakes, The Albany Theatre and Team London Bridge this one-man, hip hop gardening show - written and performed by Kenny - for ages 8-11 is now in final production and set to begin its national tour in Summer 2021.
All Change
Associate Artist- designing and delivering youth engagement and training programs as well as creative and songwriting workshops"... and then this link: https://www.allchangearts.org/people/kenny-baraka
Specialist Facilitator
Delivering workshops on lyric writing, arrangement and performance at ex-offender organisations, adult prisons and young offender institutions across the UK." ...and then these three links:
http://www.finding-rhythms.co.uk/portfolio_page/kenny-baraka/
http://www.finding-rhythms.co.uk/thank-you-from-hmp-bronzefield/
http://www.finding-rhythms.co.uk/lets-get-free-from-hmp-chelmsford/
Apples & Snakes
Workshop facilitator, providing engaging creative writing and youth management workshops for students (ages 10-19), teachers, youth groups and youth care workers.
Essex Music Hub
Rap music teacher at educational sites throughout Essex.
https://www.essexmusichub.org.uk/site/schools/workshops/rap-it/
Young Makers' Agency (YMA)
Songwriting, music studio & performance programme tutor for youth (ages11-18) at The Green Man Community Arts Centre.
Irene Taylor Trust
Delivering songwriting and performance instruction for the various projects run by The Trust.
Jimmy Asher Foundation
Providing workshops that help youth ages 11-19 produce, record, perform/host and air content for online radio shows and podcasts.
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