The BEEHIVE COLLECTIVE presents a SPECIAL WORKSHOP: “Graphics for the Commons”

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Saturday October 11

2:00pm-6:00pm

Free admission- all are welcome!

Bees experienced in creating and sharing story-telling art pieces used to “cross-pollinate the grassroots” will run a workshop sharing techniques they use to create their images depicting today’s greatest challenges and inspiring all of us to work for change.

The Beehive is an all-volunteer swarm of educators, artists, and activists using images to communicate and educate about the complex realities of our times. The dizzyingly detailed, hand-drawn, large-format posters and banners are portable murals that come alive through storytelling, illuminating how single issues are interconnected and part of bigger systems. Join us to work with the Bees to deconstruct some often overwhelming global issues – together – and use metaphors from the natural world to connect social and environmental struggles. The collaboratively produced, educational illustrations were created through an intensive and ongoing process of grassroots research. After graphics are completed, Bees tour all of the world to distribute the completed graphics widely as tools for storytelling, popular education, organizing, and movement building.

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Support RLM Arts and the Free Space

Our new neighbor, Ricardo Levins Morales at RLM Arts, has been making art for justice for 35 years.  A co-founder of Northland Poster Collective, which folded a few years ago, Ricardo’s new studio is open most weekdays for you to stop by when visiting the Free Space.


And, if you buy any of his posters, note cards or buttons via the Minnehaha Free Space website, the Free Space will receive 10% of the sale.  Follow this link or click on Ricardo’s banner on the right sidebar of any page on minnehahafreespace.org, and support art for justice and the Free Space at the same time!