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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.

His work reflects the cross generational plural experience of growing up in Britain as a second-generation person of African Caribbean descent. Edson counts visceral poetry and musical poetry as his main inspiration encountered in a journey across the cultural and class map of Britain.

Edson Burton’s credits include poetry collection Seasoned (2008). His radio and theatre credits include Armour of Immanuel (2007), The Chosen One (2009), Deacon (2017, 2019) and Old Vic co-productions Curry Goat & Fish Fingers with Miles Chambers, An Abolitionist Returns (2018) and Anansi & the Grand Prize (2019). He co-created a series of events in partnership with Bristol Old Vic to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the St Paul's Uprising.

Dr Edson Burton has been a consultant and coordinator for a range of HLF and Arts Council history projects in Bristol including contributing to a study of Bristol's Old Market ward, Vice & Virtue (2014), and Black South West Network’s Race Through the Generations. A long-standing associate of Bristol's Watershed Cinema, Edson Burton 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 Midlands Hub programming initiative, Come the Revolution.

Dr Edson Burton is a regular commentator on local and national radio and television. His television appearances include the Hairy Bikers series Pubs that Made Britain (2015), Books that Made Britain Bristol (2016) There is Black in the Union Jack (2017) and Lost Civilizations Series 1: The Remains of Slavery (2017) and The Antiques Road Show (2018). Edson presented the Video Nation feature on Bristol’s multicultural high street, Stapleton Road (2010).

Edson Burton is a board member of the public art producer Situations Ltd and of Afrikaeye Film Festival, and founder member of Kiki Bristol.He was a member of the Bristol Black Writer’s group.

Seminars

2019 -The Centre of Ethnicity and Citizenship Seminar, University of Bristol

Dr Edson Burton (Writer and Historian)

Title: ‘The Allure of Afrofuturism’

Writing the stories of the Windrush legacy with Colin Grant and Edson Burton Bristol, Literature Works

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Sources

https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/edson-burton

https://wno.org.uk/profile/edson-burton

http://www.onetribetalent.co.uk/talent/edson-burton/

https://www.futurecityfestival.co.uk/speakers/edson-burton/

https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/after-slavery/effects-on-bristol/cultural-contributions/writers-poets/

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1075055/edson-burton.html

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/144/1444785/deacon/9781529142419.html

https://bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/mini-series/unfinished-business