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Artist/Maker	Action Factory (Makers) Blackburn Musicians Collective (Makers)
Place of origin	Blackburn (made)

Portrait poster advertising a multicultural event on the 4th of May. A yellow band with the event name and date lettered in red (with translation into an unidentified language) runs along the top and right of the poster, and the rest of the page has a green background overlaid with pink writing and a repeated photographic image of Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing, with humorous speech bubbles.

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Category	Posters
Object type	Poster
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Materials and techniques	Poster, screenprinted from handcut stencils and duplicating scanner stencils, and laminated in plastic Paper Laminated Plastic Screen Printing
Brief description	Poster, made by Action Factory, advertising a multicultural event, and depicting Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing, 1986
Physical description	Portrait poster advertising a multicultural event on the 4th of May. A yellow band with the event name and date lettered in red (with translation into an unidentified language) runs along the top and right of the poster, and the rest of the page has a green background overlaid with pink writing and a repeated photographic image of Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing, with humorous speech bubbles.
Dimensions	Height: 67cm Width: 48cm Dimensions include plastic laminate
Marks and inscriptions	'DANCIN ON THE NITE / LIVE AND DIRECT / windsor suite 7 pm' 'BRADFORD / original mushrooms / EASTSIDE / SALTLEY-BIRMINGHAM WORKSHOP / RED SEA / REINFORCEMENTS / Sadol Liverpool / dj - gary stewart' 'organised by blackburn musicians collective: sponsored by I.Y.Y. supported by Action Factory'
Credit line	Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Subjects depicted	Dancing Politics Ronald Reagan Reagan, Nancy
Bibliographic reference	From the label text of an exhibition held by the Greenwich Mural Workshop entitled 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-86'
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.481-2013

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Record created	November 20, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1274976/-poster-action-factory/

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