Greetings from the busy workerbees of the Beehive Design Collective
...we're excited to announce we're swarming YOUR way this coming Fall!
Take a Look at our Current Tour Schedule, HERE.
On tour with giant, portable murals, the Bees aim to draw the connections between colonial history and present day struggles against corporate globalization, violence, and racism. The Beehive creates anticopyright graphics as tools for popular analysis, education and organizing. Our presentations and workshops are an accessible format for unpacking how resource extraction, militarization and industrial development in the Western Hemisphere are all interconnected and part of the 'big picture'.
Our WORKSHOPS engage participants in collective storytelling and analysis. We also offer PICTURE-LECTURES and are available for longer term RESIDENCIES. This coming Fall we are visiting multiple regions of the United States and Pacific Canada simultaneously.
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FALL TOUR 2008 - MID OCTOBER to MID NOVEMBER |
MID-OCT to MID-NOV
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featured: THE TRUE COST OF COAL |
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This Fall, while the rest of the nation’s media buzzes with frenzied election anticipation, Bees will be swarming SOUTH EAST STATES to share a preview of our most recent graphics-campaign-in-progress, MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL: THE TRUE COST OF COAL.
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Click above for a preview of the
new COAL graphic campaign [PDF - 15MB] |
The Bees use Mountaintop Removal coal mining in Appalachia as a lens through which to understand the historical and contemporary story of energy and resource extraction accelerating throughout the world- devastating land-based communities and critters, poisoning the rest of us, and fueling climate disaster. Looking to the future, the Bees raise questions about resistance, regeneration, and remediation while sharing stories of struggle from mountain communities. Learn more about this campaign as it unfolds at beehivecollective.blogspot.com.
THE TRUE COST OF COAL preview tour will also include material from two previously-released graphic narratives about FREE TRADE and PLAN COLOMBIA, as well as a work-in-progress that illustrates grassroots struggles for justice and autonomy in Central America, MESOAMERICA RESISTE. Many common themes are woven throughout each Beehive graphic, all of which are collaboratively researched through dialogue with affected communities. |
MID-OCT to MID-NOV
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featured: RESIST ATLANTICA! |
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This Fall 2008 NORTH EAST will be a collaborative effort between the Beehive Collective and Rising Tide North America. It will feature a brand new interactive graphics workshop about North-South Solidarity with scenes from MESOAMERICA RESISTE, the final epic chapter in our globalization trilogy. The workshops will deal specifically with the local effects of the NAFTA-style “Free Trade” zone known as Atlantica (see below for more details on Atlantica), making striking connections with the Mesoamerican experience of “free trade” as felt over the past decade. We will take a unique approach at examining cross-border and cross-cultural solidarity. It is our hope to use this tour as a platform to open space for dialog relating to the issue of democratic control of our land and resources here in the North Atlantic seaboard.
Over the past four years the Beehive Collective has been creating “Mesoamerica Resiste!” the final graphic in our globalization trilogy. This graphic takes a critical look at Project Mesoamerica (formerly "Plan Puebla Panama")- a development plan designed to facilitate the
exploitation of resources by corporate interests in Central America, and transform much of its land to create more "efficient" trade routes for global markets. Here on the North Atlantic seaboard, an equivalent plan for resource extraction and disempowerment of local governments known simply as Atlantica is underway.
The Mesoamerica Resiste! graphic, while telling the story of resource extraction, militarization, and (under)development in Latin America, is strikingly relevant to the fight for local land control here in Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. Using these graphics as a springboard for discussion and information sharing, the beehive collective works to analyze and dismantle the forces at work in our capitalist society through a metaphorical lens of stories from the natural world. We’ll draw clear connections between the colonial history of the Western Hemisphere and contemporary patterns of corporate globalization, violence, and racism.
MID-OCT to MID-NOV
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featured: MESOAMERICA RESISTE! |
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featured: DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE |
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The Fall 2008 WEST COAST AND PACIFIC CANADA tour will feature scenes from MESOAMERICA RESISTE, the final
epic chapter in the trilogy, preceded so far by our graphics about the FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS and PLAN COLOMBIA. Now at 4 YEARS in the making and nearly
hatched, this is our most ambitious and
elaborate illustration to date...
This graphic takes a critical look at Project Mesoamerica (formerly "Plan
Puebla Panama")- a development plan designed to facilitate the exploitation of resources by corporate interests in Central America, and
transform much of its land to create more "efficient" trade routes for
global markets. This elitist plan is a threat to the very survival of unique and important ecosystems and traditional cultures. Our presentation
illustrates many inspiring and successful examples of resistance to this
top down development through horizontal community based organizing.
Combined with the two previous trilogy graphics (Free Trade Area of the Americas and Plan Colombia), these graphical narratives share stories of resource extraction,
militarization, and (under)development in Latin America, drawing clear
connections between the colonial history of the Western Hemisphere and
contemporary patterns of corporate globalization, violence, and racism.
As educators, the Bees are multi-disciplinary and have appeared at hundreds of locations internationally each year, from high schools and community centers, conferences and union halls, to political convergences and music festivals, teaching in academic departments ranging from economics, geography and anthropology to social work, environmental
studies and the arts. We give presentations on a sliding scale basis to community based groups and social and environmental justice focused organizations.
For the past several years, Bees have been touring the Americas and Europe with an array of political graphics. With these enormous, highly detailed, hand illustrated portable murals and an engaging narrative, the Bees have awed and inspired audiences with a presentation intended to be understood by anyone - not just the experts and political analysts! We offer several different workshop formats- from picture lectures to highly interactive popular education models, in order to introduce our work to every different type of audience: from high schools and universities to community centers, political convergences and music festivals. Let us know your ideas, and we'll try to make it fit!
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