Beehive Design Collective Arts & Education Tour

From the Hive: The world famous art and story-telling of the Beehive Design Collective is taking our graphic storytelling across the globe. We are now booking presentations and interactive workshops at universities, community centers, galleries, markets and any other space – indoor or out – where people would like to see us present. In our workshops and presentations we use giant, portable murals of intricate pen and ink drawings to deconstruct complex issues of globalization, climate change, colonization, and resource extraction. We strive to provoke discussion, raise hard questions, and share hopeful stories about actions big and small we can take to build a better world.

Watch this space for San Antonio updates.

Bioregional Dates:

• July 27 Dallas, TX 
• July 28 Houston, TX
• July 30 Austin, TX
• August 1 San Antonio, TX 
• August 2 El Paso, TX
• August 3 Las Cruces, NM

Graphics On Tour:

Mesoamérica Resiste is 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. 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 affects communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond.

The True Cost of Coal examines all of our connections to coal, while celebrating stories of struggle from mountain communities. The last chapter of the story also looks to the future, raising questions about alternatives, remediation, and regeneration. Ending with a rhyming narrative about the history of coal mining, this presentation engages and entertains.

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