This is the press release for the first Tolerance Poster Show in Japan.
The show will be a part of this year's Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo's most important two-day art festival on May 27/28 (Sat/Sun). While the event recorded over 800,000 visitors in the past, this year's attendance is expected to exceed 1,000,000. The Tolerance Poster Show will be displayed on art boards along Roppongi street prior to other programs beginning May 23 (Tue).
This show was made posible by director Aya Komboo, professor Matthew
Waldman, and SAMCARA Design Lab of Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design, and with much help from Yuko Shimizu.
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...
The numbers of visitors is huge.
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