ART OF DEMOCRACY:
WAR & EMPIRE
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
September 4 - November 4 2008
reception - Thursday September 4th, 6-9 PM
Meridian Gallery
(415) 398-7229
info@meridiangallery.org
Image: Juan Fuentes. See more images here.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, September 12, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Pat Oliphant Book Signing
Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant will sign his new book, Leadership: Cartoons and Sculpture from the Bush Years
Friday, October 10, 4:30 p.m. -Norman Solomon, internationally recognized civil rights and antiwar activist, talks about his book and the film War Made Easy.CONCERTS
Wednesday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.- Meridian Music presents The Cornelius Cardew Choir
Wednesday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.- Hafez Modirzadeh & Saed Muhssin
FILM SERIES
Documentary films will be shown every Friday, with screenings at 4:30 & 7:30 p.m.
Fiction films will be shown every Saturday, with screenings at 7:30 p.m.
Fri. 9/5/08: Why We Fight (Dir. Eugene Jarecki, 2005)
Sat. 9/6/08: All Quiet on the Western Front (Dir. Lewis Milestone, 1930)
Fri. 9/12/08: Sir! No Sir! (Dir. David Zeiger, 2005)
Sat. 9/13/08: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Dir. Robert Wise, 1951)
Fri. 9/19/08: The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Dir. Errol Morris, 2003)
Sat. 9/20/08: Europa, Europa (Dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1990)
Fri. 9/26/08: No End in Sight (Dir. Charles Ferguson, 2007)
Sat. 9/27/08: The Night of the Shooting Stars (Dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1982)
Fri. 10/3/08: Taxi to the Dark Side (Dir. Alex Gibney, 2007)
Sat. 10/4/08: Dr. Strangelove (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Fri. 10/10/08: War Made Easy (Dir. Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp, 2008)
Sat. 10/11/08: Mash (Dir. Robert Altman, 1970)
Fri. 10/17/08: Power of Nightmares parts 1 & 2 (Dir. Adam Curtis, 2004)
Sat. 10/18/08: Three Kings (Dir. David O. Russell, 1999)
Fri. 10/24/08: Power of Nightmares parts 2 & 3 (Dir. Adam Curtis, 2004)
Sat. 10/25/08: In the Valley of Elah (Dir. Paul Haggis, 2007)
Art of Democracy - www.artofdemocracy.org
Posters - www.artofdemocracy.org/posters/posters.html
Exhibits - www.artofdemocracy.org/galleries/All-shows.html
Art of Democracy on Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/art-of-democracy/
An exhibition with work of forty five artists:
Scott Anderson
David Avery
Will Barnet
Jesus Barraza
Sandow Birk
Fernando Botero
Mark Bryan
Enrique Chagoya
Robbie Conal
Guy Colwell
Francisco Dominguez
Eric Drooker
Ala Ebtekar
Kevin Evans
Bella Feldman
Stephen Fredericks
Juan Fuentes
J. C. Garrett
Art Hazelwood
Frances Jetter
David Jones
Hung Liu
Roberta Loach
Mary V Marsh
Fernando Marti
Doug Minkler
Claude Moller
Malaquias Montoya
Pat Oliphant
Ariel Parkinson
Francesca Pastine
Patrick Piazza
Phyllis Plattner
Gary-Paul Prince
Rigo 23
Favianna Rodriguez
Ben Sakoguchi
Jos Sances
SF Print Collective
Mark Vallen
Gee Vaucher
Mary Hull Webster
Howard Whitehouse and Richard Linder
William Wiley
Bruce Yurgil


