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Book launch announced for Ros Martin: Before I am rendered invisible
“For Black Lives to Matter, our voices need to be heard,” says Ros Martin, the literary-based artist and activist who has been writing and making work for over 20 years.
Now, Martin’s DIY activism has been collected into an anthology called BEFORE I AM RENDERED INVISIBLE – a rich mix of social commentary, spoken word play and memoir charting Black struggle with specific reference to her home town of Bristol.
“As I grow old,” she says, “I ask myself; am I to disappear into obscurity like others before me, and the truth of black and socially marginalised people’s struggles and achivements remain invisible and obscured?”
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Ros Martin with her book, Before I am Rendered Invisible – photo: courtesy of the author
Her work counters that silence, affording time and space to the people in the past, and present, whose voices have not been amplified.
The archive brought together in the book will be celebrated at a free launch event on October 22 at Waterstones, which will also feature live music from Cameroonian musician Alphonse Daudet Touna.
Cameroonian musician Alphonse Daudet Touna – photo: courtesy of himself
Photo: Arkbound Publishers
Ros Martin: BEFORE I AM RENDERD INVISIBLE book launch is at Waterstones, The Galleries on October 22 at 6.30-8.30pm. Tickets are free, bookable via www.eventbrite.co.uk.
The book is available for purchase now, from Palavro Publishing.
Main photo: Mark Simmons
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