Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg

Title

Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg

Description

A poster advertising the Winnipeg stop on the Black Wedge tour.

Creator

Mecca Normal

Source

Lilian Radovac

Date

1987-08-26

Contributor

Lilian Radovac

Rights

Mecca Normal

Format

JPEG

Type

poster

Coverage

The Chameleon Club, 72 Princess Street, Winnipeg

Context

A tour of activist resistance culture organized by Jean Smith of the band Mecca Normal, which set out to "spread the word of how to combine poetry, music and politics and have a fun time doing it."

The Black Wedge was an anti-authoritarian response to Britain's earlier Red Wedge, and began on the West Coast in 1986 before continuing across Canada in 1987. The performers included Vancouver's Mecca Normal, San Francisco's Peter Plate, Montreal's Rhythm Activism and Toronto artists Bryan James and Mourning Sickness.

To learn more, read this excerpt from Smith's essay "The Black Wedge Tours: Take Something You Care About and Make it Your Life," in Sounding Off — Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution, eds. Ron Sakolsky and Fred Ho, (New York: Autonomedia, 1996).

Original Format

paper

Physical Dimensions

4 1/4 x 14

Files

Black Wedge poster final.jpg

Citation

Mecca Normal, “Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg,” Alternative Toronto, accessed November 9, 2024, https://www.alternativetoronto.ca/archive/items/show/498.

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