'Oranges and Zinc' / Rosa
Verve announces spoken word series with debut artist Rosa Cass’ “Oranges and Zinc”
The idea behind the series is to facilitate collaborations between writers and musicians. Whether that be a guitarist improvising to a spoken word piece, or a writer adding fragmented thoughts to experimental noise - we want to hear from you.
Listen to “Oranges and Zinc” with improvised music from Jack Duncan below:
Rosa (she/her) is a writer from Naarm, grateful to be living on Larrakia country in Darwin at the moment. Her writing is a love letter to her jewishness, queerness and all the people who fill her up.
Spoken word by Rosa Cass (@rosakasch)
Music backing by Jack Duncan (@jackcandunk)
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Here in ‘Australia’, Indigenous people are the most incarcerated population on Earth. Countless lives have been murdered by white police, white government policies and this country’s white history, institutionalised colonialism and ongoing racial oppression. Racial injustice continues today under the phoney, self-congratulatory politics of ‘Reconciliation’ and the notion that colonialism is something that must be denied and forgotten, an uncomfortable artefact of the past.
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Indigenous Social Justice Association - fighting to stop Indigenous deaths in custody
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