Culture and resistance : festival programme.

Poster shows silkscreen logo for the Culture and Resistance symposium and festival. Ink is black and red. Subtitle is written in red marker next to the logo. The symposium program and a schedule of events are taped below title and subtitle. Ink on both is in black.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana) (Artist)
Other Authors: Mnyele, Thami, 1948-1985 (Artist)
Language:English
Published: [Gaborone, Botswana] : [Medu Art Ensemble], [1982]
Series:Michael and Monica Appleby collection of Medu Art Ensemble posters and Southern African posters and maps.
Africana posters collection.
Subjects:
Art and society > South Africa > Congresses > Posters.
Anti-apartheid movements > Botswana > Posters.
Serigraphy > Specimens.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1948-1994 > Posters.
Posters, African.
Posters.
Genre:
Posters.
Specimens.
Posters, African.
Local Note:
MSU: Water stains on top portion of poster.
MSU: Tape holding schedules pealing off.
Physical Description:1 poster : red and black ; 86 x 61 cm
Format: Poster
Description
Summary:
Poster shows silkscreen logo for the Culture and Resistance symposium and festival. Ink is black and red. Subtitle is written in red marker next to the logo. The symposium program and a schedule of events are taped below title and subtitle. Ink on both is in black.
Note:Locations: "Museum, Moth Hall, Student Union, Catholic Cathedral, Town Hall, Science Lecture Theater/UBS."
Call Number:MSS 497-6
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Administrative History:
The Culture and Resistance Festival took place at the University of Botswana and was attend by over 900 people. Political exiles and cultural workers (artists)intermingled and discussed the future cultural environment of South Africa would be created without the extreme censorship of South Africa. The symposium consisted of people reading papers or speaking on panels about literature, visual arts, theater, film, photography, music, and dance. Evening activities included performances of dance, music, poetry, and theater, as well as film showings.
The Medu Arts Ensemble was an Anti-Apartheid resistance art movement that operated in Gaborone, Botswana. (Medu is the Pedi word for "roots.") Membership consisted of South African exiles and western sympathizers, and included five artistic units: photography, film and theatre, music, graphic art, and publications and research. The visual arts unit membership consisted of: Thami Mnyele, Miles Pelo, Heinz, Judy Seidman, Gordon Metz, Albio, Theresa Gonzales, Philip Segola, and Lentswe Mokgatle. From 1979-1985, the Medu graphic arts unit produced over fifty anti-Apartheid posters. These posters were smuggled into South Africa and posted throughout the black townships.