The Beehive Collective 2024 Tour at 350 Tacoma!
Schedule
Tue Sep 24 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
311 Puyallup Avenue, Tacoma, WA, United States, Washington 98421 | Tacoma, WA
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This is a family friendly event, everyone is welcome!Learn more about the Beehive Collective at beehivecollective.org
The presentation uses large murals and graphics to discuss climate and environmental issues while emphasizing inspiring stories of community empowerment and solutions. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
If you can't bring any food to the potluck--no worries, just show up!!! The event is free. We will be collecting donations for the Beehive Collective to fund their travel expenses & thank them for their time.
This tour stop includes two murals:
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.
The True Cost of Coal graphic uses mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia as a lens through which to understand the historical and contemporary story of energy and resource extraction. With a gigantic portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and animals from the most biodiverse temperate forest on the planet, the Bees will share (and seek) stories of how mountaintop removal coal mining affect communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond. Today’s energy corporations and government bodies are continuing to show the extent of their greed and short-sightedness as they push their extractive agendas.
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Where is it happening?
311 Puyallup Avenue, Tacoma, WA, United States, Washington 98421Event Location & Nearby Stays:
