Artistic Portfolio

Work Experience

Literary Curator – Plein Theater (2026 – Present)

New Genre Research: Spoken Word Theater – Das Theater Masters (2024 – 2026)

Literary and Performance Curator – What You See Festival (2025 – Present)

Jury – What You See Festival x Amsterdam Fringe Festival – I see You Award (2025 – Present)

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

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

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

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

Independent Artist and Curator (2018 – Present)

Country and Program Coordinator – Children Advocacy Network (2016 – 2017)

 

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)

 

Museum 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

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

A Gift of Holland’s Dream Independent Publication (2025)

A Fist of Tongues – Spoken Word Theater Performance (2024)

De Gids – Cultural and Literary Magazine The Netherlands (2024)

Mateloos Verlangen, Uitgeverij Podium (2023)

Word Up Pages Issue 02 – (2023)

Queer and Feminist Poetry Anthology – Unwanted Words (2022)

NRC Magazine – Cover Poet x Writer (2022)

Weekly published Poet – Foroyaa Newspaper The Gambia (2014 – 2015)

 

Theater Projects and Tours

You’ve Been Needing Sadness – Master’s Graduation Performative Research (2024 – 2026)

Salon Verité x Clarice Gargard- Writer and Performer – International Theater Amsterdam (2025)

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)