Jolade Olusanya

Jolade is a poet, director and photographer based in East London. He has performed internationally and written poetry commissions for BET, Barbican, TFL, Ernst & Young, Roundhouse, BBC 1Xtra and many more. He has directed short films, documentaries, campaigns, poetry films and music videos on a global scale having worked for the likes of Red Bull Music, Musicalize, Kodak, Sony, Columbia Records, Expedia and more. 

He is a Barbican Young Poet Alumni, finalist of the first ever Young Poet Laureate for London programme, winner of Outspoken Prize for Poetry Award and the Outspoken Performance Prize in 2017.

He has been featured in Pitch Magazine, Stylist Mag, VSCO, Kodak, Afri-Radio, Guardian Series, Expedia UK, HIIVE and on The Dots as one of their 100 Creatives Championing Diversity. 

Jolade is a Vodafone Foundation Scholar, One Young World delegate, serves on the board of Writez and Scribez; a CIC creative arts company, an active youth mentor in his local community, poetry/film facilitator and parkour athlete/coach. Also, he regularly travels fusing his passion for stories, people and culture in the work he creates.

Places worked in include: Bali, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nigeria, USA, Turkey, the Nederlands, France, Scotland, Spain, Sicily, Gambia and Kenya.