Revolutionary Papers x MayDay Rooms - Exhibit Launch

IF TICKETS SELL OUT, WALK-UP'S WILL BE POSSIBLE - BUT BE AWARE WE EXPECT A BUSY EVENT!

An Exhibit on Anti-colonial Print Culture

We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of Pelican House’s first exhibition in collaboration with MayDay Rooms and Revolutionary Papers! We’ll be exhibiting fabric prints of the covers of anti-colonial periodicals and materials from the MayDay Rooms archives, and kicking the exhibit off with a discussion between archivists from around the world and contemporary organisers active in anti-imperialist solidarity movements today.

Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It traces the ways that periodicals supported social, political and cultural reconstruction amidst colonial destruction, building alternative networks that circulated new political ideas and dared to imagine worlds after empire. This “from below” approach to history allows us to engage with intra-movement discourses and relocate the power of anti-colonial movements away from charismatic leaders to the organising base that made their rise possible.

MayDay Rooms is an archive, resource space and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories. It offers organising and event space for activist and self-organised groups, and runs a full programme of events including film screenings, archival workshops, historical talks, discussion and reading groups, and more.

Confirmed speakers include Hana Morgenstern, Koni Benson, Mahvish Ahmad, Tarun Gidwani, Ashraf Nabil and Shiraz Durrani.

☀️ Arrive from 6pm

📚 Talk begins 6:30pm

💬 Social from 8:15pm