Recent/Past Projects
Creativity Live - Celebrating Diversity - Afternoon
"Writer, performer, and facilitator Kenny Baraka looks back on our recent project with Young Makers’ Agency in Downham, Lewisham. Throughout this year-long project, Funded by Phoenix Housing, Kenny helped develop a group of aspiring lyricists and MCs..."
KENNY HELPS TO MAKE THIS YEAR'S WORLD BOOK DAY ONE TO REMEMBER - BOOKS THAT MAKE YOU LOL
Member of The World Book Day Strategic Advisory Group
RAP Project
Free introduction to Rap workshop in Basildon for 13 - 18 years over half term holidays
Young Makers' Agency (YMA)
Songwriting, music studio & performance programme tutor for youth (ages11-18) at The Green Man Community Arts Centre.
Prison Week
Commissioned by the Prisons Week charity to write and perform the promotional video for the Prisons Week 2017 campaign.
BBC Radio London
Guest appearance as judge for the 2018 rap finals.
Youth Urban Arts Foundation
Rap and Writing Tutor
Working with young people and local communities to write and produce their own songs.
Spine Festival 2017
Artist in Residence
Working with libraries and their local schools in south east London to create and perform their own poetry.
Five-O-Fresh at Theatre 503
Script and Development Coach
Working with aspiring script writers and actors to develop, write and perform their original plays.
Art Against Knives
On Track Project Facilitator
Engaging the participants around relevant issues, exposing them to new and different writing practices and facilitating the creation and recording of their own original music.
Synergy Theatre
Workshop facilitator
Providing engaging creative writing and youth management workshops for incarcerated youth as well as youth and adult ex-offenders.
The Rememberers
Writing and performance of a one-man live hip hop graphic novel and educational programme. Toured nationally, 2011-13.
East London Arts & Music (ELAM)
Visiting Lecturer
Facilitated a weekly seminar on the strategies and practice of writing and performing spoken word, poetry and song lyrics.
Platform
Political Poetry Tutor
Facilitation of a weekly workshop which aimed to explore, discuss and debate contemporary social and political issues as well as the production of spoken word pieces/performances that voice and address these various dialogues.
The Rose Bowl
Music & Performance Programme Manager
Scheduling, monitoring and programming of the youth artists, tutors and studio facilities as well as event and product planning.
www.rosebowlislington.org.uk
Hoxton Hall
Lyric/Songwriting & Performance Tutor
Developing and strengthening the writing and songwriting of youth artists.
Stan Won’t Dance Education & Arts Residency, Royal Festival Hall
Working in collaboration with Director / Choreographer Rob Tannion and Whitbread Award winning author Patrick Neate to create multi-arts workshops and performances for young people ages 11-14.
Where I’m From, Daniel House PRU
A year-long project, working in collaboration with poet/author Roger Robinson to facilitate the young people’s production, writing and recording of an original spoken word/rap/grime album.
Hoxton Hall Youth Arts Academy
Commissioned to write and direct an original full length, full cast HipHOpera - performed at Hackney Empire Summer ’08.
The London Sinfonietta & Copenhagen Youth Project, Kings Place
Collaborated with the London Sinfonietta and participants (aged 12-15) from the youth project to produce an original classical-urban fusion, multi-media installation and performance.
Shake the Dust
Host and Outreach Facilitator
Led nationwide outreach and recruitment initiative for Apples and Snakes’ National Youth Poetry Slam. Hosted the poetry slam finals.
The British Library
Workshop Facilitator
Facilitated an English Language conference for students.
Diverse Arts
Trainer
Led an initiative to train school bus drivers throughout Wales on behaviour management and problem solving.
‘Conversations with the Yout’
Spoken word and rap album based on my experiences as a youth worker and arts facilitator in the streets, schools and estates of London. Recognised by the English Poetry Book Society as one of the country’s best spoken word records of the year in 2010.
ARTIST TOURS/GIGS & DISCOGRAPHY
The Book Slam: Neighbourhood Club w/ Patrick Neate
Darkerthanblue.com UK National Tour
Fresh Festival: Birmingham
Touch Magazine Main Stage, Notting Hill Carnival
Support for Omar, Jazz Café, London
Dekefex, Mass, London
Urban Music Seminar, London
2002 MOBO Awards
“GIMME SUM” ft. Omar, Common Sense, Rodney P & Ashman. Single from Sing (If You Want To) – Omar
“TRANSMISSION 2032” Taken from TwoFive- Apples &Snakes
“SING (REMIX)” (If You Want To)- Omar
