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The Beehive Collective Exhibition
June 29 @ 5:30 pm
The Beehive Collective is on national tour and will be setting up their artwork at WESPAC on Saturday, June 29th! Cass and friends with YDSA are hosting the gathering. Please share widely with those who may be interested!
The Beehive Collective uses giant, portable murals to deconstruct complex issues of globalization, climate change, colonization, and resource extraction. They strive to provoke discussion, raise hard questions, and share hopeful stories about actions big and small that we can take to build a better world.
Mesoamérica Resiste
Mesoamérica Resiste is our most recently completed narrative poster, an epic project that took nine years to complete! This is the third and final installment in the Beehive’s trilogy on globalization in the Americas. The intricate, double-sided image documents resistance to the top-down development plans and mega-infrastructure projects that literally pave the way for resource extraction and free trade. We highlight stories of cross-border grassroots social movements and collective action, especially organizing led by Indigenous peoples.
While focusing on stories from Mexico and Central America, the Bees will weave a much larger narrative about ways people are fighting back against a global economy based on colonialism, land grabs, and exploitation, and building alternative economies, all over the globe – including connecting to ongoing struggles in North America. This graphics campaign also celebrates cultural and ecological diversity through a cast of characters that includes hundreds of endemic (and endangered) species of insects, animals, and plants.