The Brockley Max team have announced an Evening with local resident and renowned cartoonist, Martin Rowson to fundraise funds for this year’s Festival. This is a rare opportunity for an informal and intimate discussion with one of the UK’s most distinct political commentators and to help support this year’s Brockley Max festival.
Date: Wednesday 10 February
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Ladywell Tavern, 80 Ladywell Rd, London SE13 7HS.
Martin Rowson is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading cartoonists and political satirists, with work currently appearing in The Guardian and The Independent on Sunday. Martin’s work is unflinchingly political; he describes himself as a ‘visual journalist’. His style is visceral and offensive. Be prepared to be shocked, enlightened and thoroughly entertained. Martin Rowson Profile in The Guardian
Press Release
Political Cartoons: Giving the gift of Offence
In a world where it is all too common for people to claim a right not to be offended, how far can free speech go? Do we risk giving away too much when we ‘respect feelings’?
A year on from attacks on cartoonists in Paris, Martin Rowson, one of the UK’s leading cartoonists and political satirists and ‘ scourge of the political establishment’, will give his thoughts on the power of giving and taking offence, along the way exposing the techniques, practice and purpose of caricature. As Martin says, ‘I often describe my job as a political cartoonist as “assassination without the blood”. I’m only half joking‘.
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