UPCOMING and Previous GIGS
19th-22nd March, VAULTS
Max wants to tell you a story. He's not entirely sure why, or even who he is; savage, peacekeeper or critic?
Following it’s 5* run at both the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe, PASSENGERS from award-winning playwright Kit Redstone and director Jess Edwards, comes to the Vaults Theatre. Tickets
16th Dec - Monkey Bars
Award-winning writer Chris Goode asked over seventy young children to talk about their lives. In Monkey Bars, their words are spoken by adults – playing adults in adult situations. Southwark Playhouse Elders Company revive this revelatory verbatim show that’s funny, touching and endlessly surprising.
This production is presented by arrangement with Chris Goode and Company.
26th November - Somewhere Over The Bridge
An Evening of Broadway and WestEnd Shows. Downing College, Cambridge.
23rd October
Featured poet and panellist in conversation with Jessica Horn exploring African and Black Feminism. Tickets
Conversations in Colour
Featured poet for the inaugural Disrupt Space exhibition. Department Store, Brixton.
17th-19th September
Featured poet at the International conference on #MeToo opening for keynote speaker Professor Angela Davis. Iceland, Reykjavik . Tickets
31st July - 31st August
Based on the acclaimed Jules Verne novel, this brand new musical written and directed by Ian MacFarlane with musical arrangement by Laurie Denham, celebrates the iconic Blackpool Grand Theatre’s 125th birthday this summer. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Tickets
30th July - Art of Now, BBC Radio 4
Psychotherapist Phillipa Perry interviews Justina Kehinde on how she uses hands in her poetry and their relationship to Britain’s colonial history, hair braiding as a means of intimacy between Black women, gesture as communication and much more. Full link
6-8th June
Justina Kehinde stars in Associated Studios production of Sister Act the Musical. Vaults Theatre, London. Tickets
29th September
Justina Kehinde hosts an evening with iThemba Projects in their 2nd annual fundraiser 'Rum and Rhymes'. A night of live music, afro-fusion cuisine and rum tasting in aid of iThemba's work in the rural community of Sweetwaters, South Africa.
16th - 17th September
Justina Kehinde directs for the WOLAB Actor-Writer Showcase.
Location: Theatre N16, 5 Ashley road, N17 9LJ London, United Kingdom
6th September
Justina Kehinde performs letters between Wilfred Owen and his mother in Big Ideas' 'Motherhood, Loss and World War 1', a commemoration project acknowledging the universality of bereavement as the defining experience of conflict with a special focus on mothers - an overlooked aspect of grief during this period.
Senate House, WCIE 7HU
6-8th March
The Writers' Watchlist Vol.1. A showcase of plays from alumnus of the Royal Court and Soho Writers' Labs, performed at Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
29th December
Bespoke poetry set for First Bank Nigeria's Youth Empowerment Conference. Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria.
19th December
Jazz and Poetry set at the hottest spot in Lagos, Bogobiri House, opposite the African Arts Foundation, Ikoyi Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
16th December
An intimate jazz and poetry set for members of the Aspen Leadership Institute hosted at the renowned Ikoyi Boat Club, Lagos, Nigeria.
10th December
Podcast Interview with Vulva La Revolution discussing identity,writing new narratives and defying expectations
9th December
African Diaspora Women's Forum 20 17: A Conversation on Culture, Sex and Society. Africa Centre, London, SE1 0BL
5-7th December
Children's Global Media Summit, Manchester Tickets
24th October
In conversation with Reni-Eddo Lodge on her Bailey Gifford nominated book - 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Blackwells, Oxford.