Closing Event: Friday, February 3rd, 7pm-10pm

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, fall in love with radical history all over again!

Since 1998, activist artist Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by more than 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today. This show celebrates the legacy of these movements and the poster series, as well as the release of a book collecting them all.

Come to the closing event of the Celebrate People’s History art show. There will be food and music, plus copies of the book for sale, as will individual posters, and other books and works of art. Around 8pm we’ll have short presentations from:

* Josh MacPhee, curator of the Celebrate People’s History series and editor of the CPH book
* Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and editor of The War Before by Safiya Bukhari
* Poster artists Morgan Andrews, Dan Berger, Beth Pulse, Erik Ruin, and Eian Weissman
* Local activists whose work is featured in the book