We are happy to announce that after a 2-year delay because of the pandemic, on November 17th 2021, as part of the Bolivia Poster Biennial BICeBé 2021, the Tolerance Poster Show took place at Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia.
The show was made possible by the relentless effort of Susana Machicao with Bolivia Poster Biennial BICeBé, Diseñadores Gráficos Bolivia, Fundación Áurea para las artes visuales y el diseño and Museo Nacional de Arte.
You can learn more about the show here.
On November 16th, the International Day of Tolerance , the Tolerance Poster Show was displayed in the center of Zagreb on the fence of the Botanical Garden . Here is a link to a short video of the show . Unfortunately only 24 hours later, the show was "attacked" by Neo-Nazis graffitis. On the posters, they wrote "NDH", which is the abbreviation for Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Independent State of Croatia) a Second World War puppet state of Nazi Germany. On others, they graffitied the letter "U" which is the symbol for Ustaša the Second World War Croatian fascist organization. And they even wrote "Smrt Srbozločincima" (Death to the Serbian criminals). Luckily, the organizers of the show figured out how to remove this hate speech and the symbols. Outrage over this vandalism, was expressed through all news media in Croatia. Here , here , here , and here are some of the local media reactions. You can see the video of the show here . This show...
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