Recent Workshops & Performances

  • SUNY Broome County College
  • Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Educational Institute - Charlotte, NC
  • UNC Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
  • College of Charleston – Charleston, SC
  • University of Denver Law School - Denver, CO
  • Hollis University – Roanoke, VA
  • Marlboro County South Carolina Schools
  • Queens University - Charlotte, NC
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools – North Carolina
  • Guilford County Schools – North Carolina
  • SUNY Binghamton University – Binghamton, NY
  • Guilford Technical Community College - Greensboro, North Carolina

Poetry Slam Accolades

  • 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam Charlotte, NC~ Film Production Crew
  • 2006 Slam Charlotte, NC ~ Slam Consultant
  • 2006 Chico, Ca Youth Poetry Slam Team ~ Coach
  • 2005 National Poetry Slam Finalist ~ Albuquerque, NM (team ranked #2)
  • 2005 Southern Fried Regional Slam Champion ~ Charlotte, NC
  • 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist ~ Worchester, Ma (#1 ranked female)
  • 2004 National Poetry Slam Semi-finalist ~ St Louis, MO (team ranked #5)
  • 2004 Southern Fried Regional Slam Semi-finalist ~ Miami, Fl (team ranked #5)
  • 2004 Carolina Grand Slam/ Red Bull Word Clash Finalist ~ Greensboro, NC

Stage Presentations and Feature Performances

  • 2006 Austin International Poetry Festival
  • 2006 For Sisters Only
  • 2005 Guilford College Hip Hop Summit w/Last Poets
  • 2004 - 5 Pantène Total You Tour w/Nikki Giovanni, Yolanda Adams, MC Lyte
  • 2004 March For Women’s Lives (1.2 million in attendance)
  • 2004 Rock The Vote Tour w/ Kanye West & Flowetry
  • L.E.A.F. (Lake Eden Arts Festival) ~ Black Mountain, NC
  • 2003-5 Black Theater Festival:
    • Malcolm Jamaal Warner’s "Pitch Black Poetry" - Winston-Salem, NC
  • Urban Literary Film Festival - Greensboro, NC
  • “ApocaLyrics” ~ A Collective7 Theatrical Presentation
  • “Under the Poetree” ~ A Collective7 Theatrical presentation
  • “Collective Thoughts: A stage presentation of life verses and poetry" ~ A Collective7 Theatrical presentation

Press, Publication & Writing for Stage

Kendrea Griffith aka Mekkah has been featured in The Charlotte Observer, Greensboro News & Record and Creative Loafing. She has had magazine profiles in Sotac (Winter 04) and Skirt Magazine (June 2005 Charlottes Powerful Women Issue). Her most recent published art and poems can be found in Thrift Poetic Arts Journal Vol 2 Issue 2, the 2006 National Poetry Slam Anthology and "The Beautiful Medusa" a book of poetry. Kendrea has also written for stage and contributed poems to a number of theatrical presentations some of which are mentioned above. The most recent stage adaptation of her  writing (the poem "Taal Sanaam") can be seen in the 2008 play "Miles & Coltrane: Blue (.)" written and produced in collaboration with the artist collective The Concrete Generation.