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BSA Film Friday: 01.07.22

BSA Film Friday: 01.07.22

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. Banksy – A t-shirt sold to help the Colston 4 in Bristol.
2. Don Rimx en Dorado Puerto Rico via Tost Films
3. Murals For The Movement DUMBO
4. Open Arms x Montana Colors

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BSA Special Feature: Banksy – A t-shirt sold to help the Colston 4 in Bristol.

“Who the hell was Edward Colston?”

“Edward Colston was a slave trader from Bristol who supervised the kidnap of over 80,000 people. Up to 20,000 of them died in transit and were thrown overboard. This isn’t about erasing history — it’s about confronting it.”

Banksy – A t-shirt sold to help the Colston 4 in Bristol.

Don Rimx en Dorado Puerto Rico via Tost Films

Beautiful brother and street artist/muralist Don Rimx shares his newest mural celebrating Homenaje a Jose “Chico” Lind, a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball second baseman, and former manager of the Atlantic League’s Bridgeport Bluefish. The new piece is regaled with celebration and song in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

Murals For The Movement DUMBO via Tost Films

Curated by Liza Quiñonez of Street Theory Gallery, artists Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, celebrate African American and Latinx heritages in a city and a social climate that is always on the move. Nationally and internationally renowned Brooklyn artists with histories and talents for miles, the three painted new works in DUMBO that combine elements of fine art, hip hop, and pop culture – with a background of deeply needed conversations about racial and social justice in this city, and this country.

Open Arms x Montana Colors

Open Arms protects the lives of the most vulnerable people in international waters,” says Laura Lannuza, communications director for the group, “where adminstrations are allowing people to die.” The paint company Montana has created a program raising awareness about the activities of this group and the greater problem of refugees chased from their homes due to economic, geographic reasons as well as those in the international war industry that profits from human suffering.

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Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson and Marka 27 Speak Against Police Brutality

Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson and Marka 27 Speak Against Police Brutality

It’s when you have an opportunity to see a piece of art on the street in person. The combination of portraits, graphic design, and text treatments may spring more from the imagination of those in the design fields but up close you can get an appreciation of the warmth and vulnerability of the figures as well. The stories that are told are down to earth, universal, and here for you to bear witness to.

Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27. “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA featured the video that accompanies this work last week for BSA Film Friday

“Quoting Isaiah 54:17 in the Bible, this mural inspires us and girds us and reminds us that when it comes to systemic racism the battle is not for the faint of heart. Can we get an ‘Amen’?”

Big up to Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27.

Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27. “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27. “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27. “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Film Friday: 07.03.20

BSA Film Friday: 07.03.20

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :
1. “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper” Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27

BSA Special Feature: “No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper” Cey Adams, Sophia Dawson, and Marka 27

Quoting Isaiah 54:17 in the Bible, this mural inspires us and girds us and reminds us that when it comes to systemic racism the battle is not for the faint of heart. Can we get an ‘Amen’?

“No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper” By Murals For The Movement, Cey Adams, I’m Wet Paint and Marka 27 is dedicated to the victims of police brutality and mass incarceration.

Shout out to @ow.ley for creating the video.

“No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”

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