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Poster
1985 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait poster advertising an event entitled 'Afrikan Arts' at the Crayford Town Hall in Woolwich. The continent of Africa is outlined with red traditional patterns and motifs on a yellow and green background. There is a photographic half-length portrait of an African woman with large hooped earrings and an ornate necklace on the left, and a smaller image of a man playing a long drum on the right. Lettered across the drum is the text 'A G. L. C. Anti Racist Year Event'.


Object details

Category
Object type
Title
Materials and techniques
Poster, screenprinted from photostencils, and laminated in plastic
Brief description
Poster, designed and printed by Christine Williams and Rick Walker at Greenwich Mural Workshop, advertising an 'Afrikan Arts' evening, 1985
Physical description
Portrait poster advertising an event entitled 'Afrikan Arts' at the Crayford Town Hall in Woolwich. The continent of Africa is outlined with red traditional patterns and motifs on a yellow and green background. There is a photographic half-length portrait of an African woman with large hooped earrings and an ornate necklace on the left, and a smaller image of a man playing a long drum on the right. Lettered across the drum is the text 'A G. L. C. Anti Racist Year Event'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 67cm
  • Width: 47.7cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bexley Council for Racial Equality presents an evening of'
  • 'AFRIKAN ARTS'
  • 'DAGARTI ARTS GROUP / Ghanaian dance and percussion'
  • 'SHAKKA DEDDI / AFRIKAN HARTBEET / Wurd-songz:Livin poetry'
  • 'Hi-Life INTERNATIONAL / Azanian Jazz Band'
  • 'A G.L.C. Anti-Racist Year Event' (Lettered in yellow along the drum.)
  • 'CRAYFORD TOWN HALL TUES 12th MARCH 7.30 pm.'
  • 'Tickets £3.50 Concessions: £2.50, available from B.C.R.E. Riverside Baths, 3, Walnut Tree Road Erith, Kent. DA8 1RA. 24 hr. answerphone: (0322) 340316. or Greenwich Entertainments Office 25, Woolwich New Road S.E.18. (01) 317 8687.'
  • 'Collection for the Mayors Appeal Fund and the Sickle Cell Anaemia Society.'
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
From the label text of an exhibition held by the Greenwich Mural Workshop entitled 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-86'
Collection
Accession number
E.479-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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