NB: THIS TALK IS NOW BEING HELD AT TRINITY CENTRE.
Come and take part in a conversation with Artist Rachel Mars and writer, historian, programme-curator and performer Dr Edson Burton about their respective practices, and the way history and its remembrance plays out in their work.
BSL interpreted.
Vegan food will be provided, please get in touch if you have any other dietary requirements.
About the panel
Rachel Mars is a writer and performer based in the UK. She works at the cross-over of performance art and theatre, exploring female, Jewish and Queer identities and their intersections, and the possibilities of live assembly.
Her recent performance work includes OUR CARNAL HEARTS, a choral dissection of envy; YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS, a queer archive of sex letters; ROLLER, with Mars.tarrab, an interrogation of female aggression and Roller Derby, and STORY #1/#3, an ongoing collaboration with Greg Wohead on radical narrative.
She won a Total Theatre Award and the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. She has performed all over the UK and internationally, including recently at Under The Radar -NYC, Barbican London, Brisbane International Festival, Brighton International Festival, Fusebox Festival Austin, On The Boards, Seattle.
Dr Edson Burton is a writer, historian, programme-curator and performer based in Bristol. His academic specialisms include: Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black History in the USA, Cultural continuities between Africa & the New World. He has been a consultant and coordinator for a range of HLF and Arts Council history projects in Bristol including most recently a study of Bristol's Old Market ward Vice & Virtue (2014). Edson has maintained a parallel career as a poet (Seasoned 2008) and writer for theatre and radio. His Radio dramas, the Armour of Immanuel (2007), the Chosen One (2009), have been Radio Four's pick of the week. A long-standing associate of Bristol's Watershed Cinema Edson has curated the highly regarded Afrofuturist season (2014) which formed part of the BFI'S Fear and Wonder Sc-Fi season. Since then he has become an active member of South West West Midlands Hub programming initiative Come the Revolution.