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A event on Saturday 22nd April. The event starts at 17:30.
Price: Free
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
BSL Interpreted ✓
Bristol’s Black Writers | Beyond the Margins
This year’s Lyra Festival public talk will be delivered by writer, poet and creative producer Ros Martin, charting the untold histories and contributions of Bristol’s black writers, poets and creatives, past and present, visibilising the role that writing has played as a voice for local communities. Ros Martin is a founder member of Bristol Black Women’s Writers group 2002-2005 and Our Stories Make Waves, African diaspora artists in creativity, and recently published Before I Am Rendered Invisible: Resistance From the Margins. Every passage rings with the call for social justice and equal empowerment, whilst celebrating lives of struggle in creativity, resistance and survival.
Followed by a Q&A + book signing.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
ROS MARTIN:
Ros Martin is a Bristol based author and spoken word artist. She is also an award winning playwright and film maker, an experimental theatre maker and, writer in schools. Her literary based artist practice brings to the fore marginalised histories, lives and voices. Producer/director of DAUGHTERS OF IGBO WOMAN 2017 a transnational trilogy of digital film shorts, collaborating with Akachi Ezeigbo, (Nigeria) and Vida Rawlins (St Kitts). Author of BEFORE I AM RENDERED VISIBLE, resistance from the margins (publisher Arkbound). Olawalearts.org.uk (Photo credit: James Mackay)
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
BSL Interpreted ✓
Bristol’s Black Writers | Beyond the Margins
This year’s Lyra Festival public talk will be delivered by writer, poet and creative producer Ros Martin, charting the untold histories and contributions of Bristol’s black writers, poets and creatives, past and present, visibilising the role that writing has played as a voice for local communities. Ros Martin is a founder member of Bristol Black Women’s Writers group 2002-2005 and Our Stories Make Waves, African diaspora artists in creativity, and recently published Before I Am Rendered Invisible: Resistance From the Margins. Every passage rings with the call for social justice and equal empowerment, whilst celebrating lives of struggle in creativity, resistance and survival.
Followed by a Q&A + book signing.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
ROS MARTIN:
Ros Martin is a Bristol based author and spoken word artist. She is also an award winning playwright and film maker, an experimental theatre maker and, writer in schools. Her literary based artist practice brings to the fore marginalised histories, lives and voices. Producer/director of DAUGHTERS OF IGBO WOMAN 2017 a transnational trilogy of digital film shorts, collaborating with Akachi Ezeigbo, (Nigeria) and Vida Rawlins (St Kitts). Author of BEFORE I AM RENDERED VISIBLE, resistance from the margins (publisher Arkbound). Olawalearts.org.uk (Photo credit: James Mackay)
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.
Entry requirements:
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