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Event of interest, Wednesday, Nov 12, 1pm - Beehive Collective

For anyone interested in intensely detailed graphics and social justice causes, you should definitely check out this event if you can.
"Plan Colombia", a visual exploration of globalization and militarism in Latin America, by The Beehive Collective.
Wednesday Nov. 12 at 1 pm in the TBH Atrium
The Beehive Design Collective is a non-profit, volunteer driven, political arts organization based in eastern Maine. The group's mission is to "cross pollinate the grassroots" through the creation of images as an effective medium for deconstructing and educating the public about complex geopolitical issues.

The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork "quilts" of personal stories related to them in their travels by communities in the global south. In their incendiary "Plan Colombia" presentation, the bees take participants on a "tour" through a larger than life graphic narrative of the multifold effects of globalization and "drug war" policies in Andean region of Colombia. Interweaving anecdotes and statistics, they perforate dubious "drug war" rhetoric and expose broad connections between militarism and resource extraction.

This graphic is the product of many exchanges about the issue of colonialism in the Andean Region of South America that took place between our collective and organizers over the spring of 2002 in Ecuador, Colombia and the U.S. These exchanges of information and inspiration were collaboratively sewn together into a quilt of images, that are organized into a circuit of progressions and contrasts that inform and engage the viewer throughout their journey of the graphic.

posted by ryan griffis at 10:39 AM Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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