Bristol peace lecture inspires anti-racism poetry
‘“There cannot be peace without truth and justice” is the core message of Ros’s spoken word performance.'
The Quaker who delivered this year’s annual Bristol Peace Lecture has released a video of poetry and music based on her performance.
Poet and playwright Ros Martin, from Frenchay Meeting, presented her poems at Redland Meeting House in April instead of a formal lecture. The performance ‘Building Peace through Creative Resistance from the Margins’ was accompanied by visual images and an atmospheric soundscape from Cameroonian musician Alphonse Daudet Touna.
Julie Bush, from Redland Meeting, told the Friend that ‘Ros has since worked with her sound engineer and producer David Bosankoe to create a 38-minute video of poetry, music and film which conveys the essence of her original performance’.
‘“There cannot be peace without truth and justice” is the core message of Ros’s spoken word performance,’ she said, adding that the work is ‘directly relevant to Yearly Meeting’s anti-racism concern’.
One of the themes, is how the racial injustices of slavery have resulted in adaptation, survival, and ‘creativity in adversity’, as well as suffering and death. ‘Her own complex descent from British, Nigerian, Brazilian and St Lucian ancestors has empowered her to speak on this painful subject from a deeply personal standpoint.’
The video is at https://youtu.be/OR6fCzKPV0Y.
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