Bee Hive Collective coming to Denman Isl. Oct. 26th

   Denman Island will be visited by the Bee Hive Collective on October 26th. They describe themselves as an all volunteer, internationally renowned political arts and activism group that creates educational materials on issues of corporate globalization, colonialism, militarism, resource extraction, and resistance. Their Denman Island visit will explore the 'True Coast of Coal', and I'm sure they will inspire acts of creative resistance around this issue which is so close to home with the proposed coal mine in Fanny Bay. The bees will be at the Denman Island Community Hall (back hall) on Tuesday evening, October 26th to share information about what they do and, they will present a performance. Also, they'll be doing an art workshop for the school kids at the Denman Community School. I've only just heard about this group myself and I am looking forward to checking it out and encourage others in the area to 'interact with the bees'.

Their mission;

To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.

detail from the Bee Hive Collective, 'True Cost Of Coal' collaborative poster project

Some more info about the Bees taken from the BeeHiveCollective website- 



The Bees have spent 10 years developing an innovative and story-based education strategy that we share through a variety of interactive, image-based picture-lectures and graphic workshops. We believe that art is a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing- and that the complex and overwhelming issues that face our world can be broken down and understood in simple pictures.
In our workshops and presentations, we use giant, portable murals to deconstruct issues as far-reaching as globalization, climate change, colonization and resource extraction. We strive to provoke discussion, raise hard questions, and share hopeful stories about the small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build a better world. Our current workshops and presentations include: Mountain Top Removal- The True Costs of Coal, Dismantling Monoculture- Tales of Ants & Economies in the Americas, Mesoamerica Resiste!- Celebrating Resistance to Plan Puebla Panama, and Graphics For The Commons- Collaborative Graphic Design for Movement Building.

  
   
Find out more at-


http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm