<p style="text-align: left;">"Dismantling Monoculture" with the Beehive Collective</p><p style="text-align: left;">Friday, June 26th at 7pm - FREE<br></p><p style="text-align: left;">The Jamaica Plain Forum<br> at First Church in Jamaica Plain UU, 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org">http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org</a> and <a href="http://www.beehivecollective.org">http://www.beehivecollective.org</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">
The Beehive Collective come to Jamaica
Plain with their giant, portable murals that are used as a tool for
popular analysis, education and organizing! The bees create
collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are
patchwork “quilts” of personal stories, historical and policy
narrative, and bottom-up resistance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In anticipation of the much-awaited
“Globalization in the Western Hemisphere” triptych, we will explore the
detailed and powerful messages from the Beehive Collective’s “Plan Columbia“, “The True Cost of Coal” and “Mesoamerica Resiste“. <br></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This trilogy is an engaging venture
through a larger than life versions of the Collective’s graphics using
banners that dwarf the presenters and a six foot tall fabric
flip-book. In a format they’ve dubbed “picture lecture,” the bees take
participants through their own story before the plunge into their
graphic trilogy: the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Plan Colombia,
and nigh-complete Mesoamerica Resiste works are presented in sequence.
The Beehive Collective heavily encourages audience participation.</p>
<p class="bodytext" style="text-align: left;">The Beehive’s innovative,
arts-based education strategy provokes discussion, raises hard
questions, and offers a hopeful story in an era of too much bad news.
Presentations consist of high energy, interactive, graphic-based
picture-lectures that speak to the overwhelming and complex picture of
globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well as the
small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build another world.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>PLEASE NOTE OFFICE HOURS<br>****************************************<br>Sarah Schwartz Sax<br>Jamaica Plain Forum Coordinator<br>
Assistant to Chuck Collins<br><br>Office hours: Tuesday & Friday, 9am-5pm<br><br>Visit the Jamaica Plain Forum at<br><a href="http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org">http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org</a><br>