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Exhibitions Opening Party
January 18, 2017
Join us for the opening of our winter 2017 season, Power to the People: Photography and Video of Repression and Black Protest, co-presented by Black Artist's Network Dialogue.
Exhibitions include:
* Attica USA 1971: Images and Sounds of a Rebellion
Including extraordinary photo-reportage alongside a range of popular art, this exhibition recounts the notorious 1971 insurrection at Attica Correctional Facility in western New York State, and the multivalent cultural response that followed. The exhibition is co-produced by Le Point du Jour (Cherbourg, France), with generous support at the RIC from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
* Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star
Dawoud Bey's photographic portraits commemorating the victims of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, are contextualized alongside photojournalistic prints from the RIC's Black Star Collection. and more...
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Ryerson Image Centre
Location: 33 Gould Street, Toronto Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/244857709253015/
Categories: Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives
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