Friday, April 20, 2018

Sonia Farmer: A True & Exact History

Installed from 26 April to 17 May, 2018, at Granderson Lab


A True & Exact History (2018) by writer and artist Sonia Farmer is an erasure of Richard Ligon’s A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657), letterpress-printed. From Thursday 26 April to Thursday 17 May, it will be installed in the front gallery space at Granderson Lab, Alice Yard’s adjunct space at 24 Erthig Road, Belmont.

Sonia Farmer will also appear at the 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, reading from her book Infidelities (longlisted for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize) on Saturday 28 April:

Island to island
The personal becomes the political in the poems of UK poet Raymond Antrobus, Bahamian Sonia Farmer, and Richard Georges of the British Virgin Islands. Chaired by Andre Bagoo
11 am–12 pm • Old Fire Station, Hart Street, Port of Spain
Free and open to all

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