2006 Austin International Poetry Festival

2006 For Sisters Only - Charlotte, NC

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 & 2005 Black Theater Festival:

Malcolm Jamaal Warner’s "Pitch Black Poetry" - Winston-Salem, NC

Urban Literary Film Festival 2004 - 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

Poetry Slam Accolades

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

Kendrea 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 Charlotte's Powerful Women Issue). She has had art and poems published in Thrift Poetic Arts Journal Vol 2 Issue 2, the 2006 National Poetry Slam Anthology and her book The Beautiful Medusaa book of poetry with notes on feminism and mythology. Kendrea Mekkah has also contributed poems to a number of theatrical presentations some of which are mentioned above. The most recent stage adaptation of her writing can be seen in "Miles & Coltrane: Blue (.)" (2008) written and produced with her artistic family, Concrete Generation, NC. In 2010 she has contributed writing and starred in the movie "Asphalt Revolution; The Vandals of Verse" a soon to be released, mockumentary on slam poetry.

By Concrete Generation  *  Produced by On Q Productions