 The Beehive Collective came to SUNY Fredonia in 2009 during Earth Week. |
The Beehive Design Collective will present an interactive program, “True Cost of Coal,” at SUNY Fredonia on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Williams Center from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and again from 7 to 9 p.m. at Grange Hall, 58 West Main St., downtown Fredonia. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Beehive Design Collective is non-profit, volunteer-based political organization based in eastern Maine. They are an art-activist collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools to showcase the complex picture of globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well as the small-scale changes that communities can take to counteract these actions.
“True Cost of Coal,” is the result of the Beehive Design Collective allying with Appalachian grassroots organizers who were fighting mountain top removal coal mining, a practice which blasts mountains into moonscapes to fuel the demand for electricity. The Beehive volunteer artists and educators worked with the grassroots organizers to create the graphic-based picture-lecture and will present factual information through abstract, intricate banners created by the citizens of the Appalachian communities.
This presentation will showcase how mountain top removal has affected their communities and ecosystems and the true environmental, social and emotional costs that coal is taking on the United States.
To learn more, contact Chemistry Professor Sherri Mason at 716-673-3292 or mason@fredonia.edu. To learn more about the campaign, go to beehivecollective.blogspot.com.
This event is sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Sustainability Committee, Fredonia Academic Community Engagement Center, Campus Climate Challenge, Art Forum and the Unitarian Universalists Congregation of Northern Chautauqua.
