[Freethe SF8] SF8 Fundraiser with Emory Douglas and SF Print Collective

[SF-8 case]

REVOLUTIONARY ART:
New work from the SF Print Collective with presentation and book 
signing with artist Emory Douglas

ONE DAY ONLY - Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Exhibit 4 - 7 pm, Emory Douglas @ 5 pm
Located at the Center for Political Education, 522 Valencia Street at 16th St.

An exhibition of posters from the San Francisco Print Collective's 
Silkscreen Postermaking workshop.

We will feature a talk, slideshow and Q&A with former minister of 
culture for the Black Panther Party Emory Douglas, signing his new 
book, Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas. This 
event will also raise funds to Free the San Francisco-8, eight former 
Black Panthers and community leaders arrested in January on 36-year 
old charges, based on confessions extracted by torture. 
<http://www.freethesf8.org/>http://www.freethesf8.org/

As a primer for public artists, SFPC's Silkscreen Postermaking 
workshop teaches students how to use the mass media for activist 
organizing with a focus on guerrilla art, graphic design, and legal 
defense. Participating artists include: Fiona Glas, Allison Lum, 
Davis DeBard, Arla Ertz, Ellen Frances, Ly Mai Hoang, Serena Huang, 
Stacy Kono, Harris Kornstein, John Lewis, Fernando Marti, Gabe 
Martinez, Jennifer Miller, Nicole Rivera, Suzanne Shaffer, Melanie 
Ann Tom, Amy Vanderwarker, Debra Walker, and David Shih-chun Wu.

$5-$100, sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Sangria, beer and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks!

Sponsored by the Center for Political Education and the SF Print 
Collective.  This space is not wheelchair accessible.

For more information, contact sfprintcollective at gmail.com or 
center at politicaleducation.org
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The SFPC is a printmaking collective that uses graphic art to support 
social justice organizing.  We make public art to challenge the mass 
media and broadcast progressive politics directly to the 
streets.  For more info. or to get involved in the next silkscreen 
postermaking class, contact sfpcprintclass at gmail.com or 
www.sfprintcollective.com
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