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Lynda Rosenior-Patten

PHD SCHOLAR | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX | 2024 – 2027

Lynda has worked in the Creative Industries for over 35+ years and founded her company Maestro7 to work independently with creative practitioners/entrepreneurs internationally. She Co-organised the 10th International Conference on Carnival and Masquerade Arts – Rhythm of a People: Tradition, Connection, Innovation and Decolonisation, University of Winneba, Ghana (2023). The first time the conference was hosted in Africa.

Lynda is the Director of Destination Salone: Training and Creative Enterprise Hub in Freetown, Sierra Leone and is a former Director of the Notting Hill Carnival Pioneers Community Festival, and Portobello Pavilion, a site specific, temporary community arts space. Since 2014 Lynda has been a trustee at Ebony Steelband Trust (Europe’s biggest Steel Pan orchestra).

Lynda is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Carnival Arts (IJCA). and a founder member of the Arts Culture and Creative Industries (ACCI) committee at the Jamaica High Commission, London

Lynda was the first female Record Buyer of African descent at Virgin Records, and as “DJ Ade” co-founded Nzinga Soundz, one of the UK’s longest running, all women sound systems.

Lynda co-authored a chapter entitled: The Story of Nzinga Soundz and the Women’s Voice in Sound System culture for a collection of writings “The System is Sound: Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline” (Palgrave MacMillan).  Lynda also co-curated “Sisters in Sound – A Hidden Story” a photographic exhibition featured in the Museum of London’s, Curating London – “Dub London” exhibition as “Innovational Women” (2020 – 2021).

Lynda has contributed to several panels/lectures/presentations on the theme of gender, resilience, the gendered space and the role of women within sound culture at academic conferences, symposiums at several UK universities and cultural institutions.

Lynda is mother to two exceptional young women and wife of respected artistic director and academic Dr H Patten MBE.