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For Immediate Release: New exhibition Tricontinental Acts of Solidarity opens at The Bridge’s
Belmont art gallery. OPENING NOVEMBER 1ST.
The Bridge and The Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation present Tricontinental Acts of
Solidarity, a month-long exhibition and public humanities project that frames our current era of
global solidarity politics through looking back at one of the most significant solidarity movements
of the twentieth century, the Tricontinental. Through the innovative films, posters, and magazines
that it published in four languages and distributed globally for over four decades, the
Tricontinental became the primary engine of politically radical cultural production worldwide. The
month-long exhibit of Tricontinental materials, along with a series of workshops and discussions
between researchers, students, and community members, will be held at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in November 2019.
Through the Tricontinental’s powerful films, posters, and magazines that it published in English,
Spanish, French, and Arabic and distributed around the world, it played a pivotal role in
generating international solidarity with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement as well as with the
anti-apartheid struggle. Its vision of global resistance was shaped by its foundations in black
internationalist thought and by the close involvement of African American and Afro-Latinx
activists.
Because of its importance to the solidarity politics of contemporary social movements, there is
currently a resurgence of scholarly and public interest in the Tricontinental. For example, its
colorful posters –– which stated solidarity with movements around in the world in four languages
–– have recently been the subject of exhibits at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the International
Slavery Museum in Liverpool, the Kemistry Gallery in London, and the Stony Island Arts Bank in
Chicago, among other locations. Tricontinental Acts of Solidarity will display these rare, original
posters and magazines and screen some of the films at The Bridge Progressive Arts Alliance
throughout the month of November 2019.
Tricontinental Acts of Solidarity is organized by UVa Professor Anne Garland Mahler and supported by The Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation; UVA Arts & Office of the Provost & Vice Provost for the Arts; Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese; Latinx Student Alliance; The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative; HotHouse: The Center for International Performance and Exhibition; and Casa OSPAAAL
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