May 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact Mary Sutton 323 653-4662

Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Co-Sponsor KPFK present:

Freedom Fries Follies: Celebrating the Arts of Dissent

Saturday, May 31, 2003, 8-10pm

Culver City High School - Robert Frost Auditorium

4401 Elenda Street, Culver City, west of Overland & south of Culver Blvd.

Freedom Fries Follies: Celebrating the Arts of Dissent will bring together a diverse group of artists to express their opposition to war, poverty, and injustice through music, poetry, spoken word, irreverent wit, and drama. This fun and thought provoking evening, hosted by mystery writer Gary Phillips, will include a video produced especially for the event, presenting award-winning reporter, Greg Palast. Music of the movement will be performed by Conjunto Jardin, a jarocho and Nueva Cancion group. Roy Zimmerman will entertain with his compelling socially conscious comedy and original music. Critically acclaimed poets Eloise Klein Healy, Dima Hilal and Emma Rosenthal will read original work. Jude Narita, internationally known actor/writer will perform her monologues on the after effects of war. Beatifik Sol, with Besskepp and Abbye Atkinson, will perform musical verse. Also featured are the Street Poets United of Dreamyard/ LA., formerly incarcerated minors in the L.A. County juvenile detention system, whose powerful performances have taken place in theaters and community centers throughout Los Angeles. If you haven’t seen the humorous and outrageous Radical Cheerleaders for Peace at a recent demonstration, then you are in for a treat.

* Individual tickets will be sold at $15.

* Student tickets will be available at the door for $10. Must have a Student I.D.

* Discounted tickets in groups of 20 to 100 will be sold at $10.each.

* For $100 an organization can get 4 tickets and a listing in the Program.

Call CSPG 323-653-4662 to charge your tickets or mail to:

CSPG-Freedom Fries Follies

8124 3rd Street Suite #211, Los Angeles, CA 90048



The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational and research archive that collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to diverse movements for social change. Since 1988, CSPG has produced over three dozen exhibitions that have traveled to more than 150 venues. CSPG produced the recent critically acclaimed “The Anti-War Show” in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. The exhibitions cover diverse human-rights issues and movements past and present. This unique archive currently has almost 50,000 posters, and is used frequently by artists, activists, scholars, students, filmmakers, and playwrights. Freedom Fries Follies will benefit the ongoing efforts of CSPG to reclaim the power of art to inspire people to action. www.politicalgraphics.org