Artistic Portfolio

Work Experience

Co-organiser and Curator – We The People Amsterdam (2023-Present)

Theatermaker, Writer and Performer – Hollandse Luchten (2022- 2025)

Expert Jury – Eurostory’s Best Eurovision Lyrics Award (2022-2023)

Event Host and Partnership Manager – Unwanted Words (2020-2023)

Independent Artist and Curator (2018-Present)

 

Individual Awards and Nominations

Nomination for Best Theater show in The Netherlands – NTF x BNG (2023-2024)

Poet of the Year – Unwanted Words (2023-2024)

Poet of the Year – Invest Gambia (2021-2022)

Nominee Poet of the Year & Best BIPOC Award (2020)

Poet of the Year- Lombok International Literature Festival (2018-2019)

Recognised as 1 of 44 most influential young writers in the Gambia (2018)

National Poetry Slam Winner – The Balance Crew, The Gambia (2016-2017)

Best Graduating Literature Student- Nusrat Senior Secondary School (2016)

 

Exhibitions

Writer, Researcher & Performer – A beauty of the world so heavy – Huis Marseille Museum (2022)

Writer, Researcher and Performer – The History of Cotton – Fashion for Good Museum (2022)

Poet and Performer – Etel Adnan Exposition at Van Gogh Museum – (2022)

 

Publications and Anthologies

A Gift of Holland’s Dream Independent Publication (Out Soon)

De Gids (2024)

Mateloos Verlangen, Uitgeverij Podium (2023)

Word Up Pages Issue 02 – (2023)

Queer and Feminist Poetry Anthology by Unwanted Words(2022)

NRC Magazine – Cover Poet (2022)

 

Theater and Literary Projects and Tours

My New Manuscript is Almost Complete (A Boy As New As Me)

You’ve Been Needing Sadness – Performative Research (since September 2024)

A Fist of Tongues – Performance (Toured Nationally 2023-2025) BNG Nominated

Poems to Witness – Spoken Word Performance, Hollandse Luchten (2023-2025)

De Wouden by Kees Roorda x Theater House Suburbia – Performer (Toured 2022-2024)

Welcome to the Guest House , Theater Rotterdam – Performative (2023)

Track: Reflections by Alida Dors, Theater Rotterdam – Closing Performer (2023)