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PROPAGANDA press release.
�PROPAGANDA� weekend in Hull � posters, film, live music and a book.
Celebrating diversity and resistance; supporting asylum seekers and refugee
organisations.
From Agit-Prop to Art House, from fly posting to frame, �PROPAGANDA: Hull Rock
Against Racism posters 1979-82� gatecrashes the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull on
Friday August 10 for a visually stunning summer show, introducing a weekend of
anti-racist events in the
city.
Twenty-five years ago, Rock Against Racism took a leading role in the battle
against racism in Hull, building a community campaign at grass roots level with
music as its driving force. Still with the power to hit you right between the
eyes, these screen-printed street posters promoted dozens of local bands eager
to take a stand against racism, including The Akrylyk Vyktymz and Timber Flesh,
featuring future Fine Young Cannibal, Roland Gift.
With original posters now on permanent display at Wilberforce House Museum and
the Lamp in Hull, this major retrospective of the full compelling collection
commemorates Wilberforce 2007, its own 25th anniversary and the ongoing struggle
against racism.
To co-incide with the exhibition at the Ferens, PROPAGANDA - a full-colour,
glossy postcard book of the exhibition � will be launched in bookshops and
online from August 11. Containing 18 vivid images from the poster collection,
the book includes a short history of Rock Against Racism as well as texts
written by people currently seeking asylum in Hull. Poster maker and author
Richard Lees explained: �These are moving, gripping, poetic accounts of lived
experiences from people confronting racism on the streets of Hull today.
PROPAGANDA is about connecting past with present struggles, powerful words with
powerful images.�
Unique events at local clubs take centre stage over PROPAGANDA weekend. Who Shot
the Sherrif? � a radical rockumentary about the roots of Rock Against Racism and
the rise of the contemporary Love Music Hate Racism campaign � will be shown for
the first time ever in Hull at the Lamp on Saturday August 11 at 7.30pm. Latest
news � world premiere of Will Slater�s short film �AgitProp�, specially
commissioned for the Propaganda weekend.
To end the weekend celebrating diversity and resistance, live music at the
Adelphi on Sunday August 12 includes Karl & the Gimps, Park & Ride, Graham Brady
and not-to-be-missed newcomers The Cliques plus others supporting Wilberforce
2007 and Love Music Hate Racism.
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�Book of Postcards is now available�
�For further information E Mail me at [email protected]
