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Arts: Protest: Fight the Power: Twenty Years of the Political Poster
Protest: Fight the Power: Twenty Years of the Political Poster
3 – 30 June 2010
10am – 5pm
Devonshire House, Custard Factory
Free entry
bassfestival.co.uk
BASS Festival premieres a startling, and previously banned, collection of propaganda material at the Custard Factory.
The posters reflect over two decades of social unrest and street fighting culminating in a controversial exhibition of visuals by graphic designers from around the world. Having toured Africa and Asia as part of a British Council-sponsored show it is finally heading to the UK having been banned previously.
Political poster art has helped mobilise the masses for years. Images like that calling for a Trafalgar Square demonstration against Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax in 1990 led people to rally behind the cause.
The propaganda spans issues as diverse as the countries of origin including the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela from unfair imprisonment in South Africa to the satirical images aiming to undermine race and gender stereotypes.
Taking place for the fifth consecutive year, BASS Festival is the UK’s only month-long celebration of Black music and art.
BASS Festival premieres a startling, and previously banned, collection of propaganda material at the Custard Factory. The posters reflect over two decades of social unrest and street fighting culminating in a controversial exhibition of visuals by graphic designers from around the world. Having toured Africa and Asia as part of a British Council-sponsored show it is finally heading to the UK having been banned previously. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
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