2010.54.788

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The Invisible Circus: A 72 Hour Environmental Community Happening
1967
14.5 in HIGH x 19.875 in WIDE
(36.83 cm HIGH x 50.48 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.788

Bottom edge has: "Poster (c) 1967 - Dave Hodges" and "San Francisco Poster Co."





The top edge of the poster has a border created by two stylized hyena on either side of a stylized bird. Below is the text: "The / Invisible / Circus" behind this the word "free" is repeated across the poster in two rows. The middle section of the poster is organized into three panels each with a multi-colored stylized border. The left panel contains the text: " A 72 Hr. / Environ - / mental / Comm - / unity / Happening. The center panel shows a female head in each corner and a blue and red tiger in the center with "Tiger" below it. The right panel has the text: "Sponsored by / the Diggers / Artists Liber / -ation Front / Glide / Foundation". The bottom edge of the poster has: "Friday 24 / Glide Church / Taylor at Ellis / 8 p.m.". Clients were The Diggers Artists Lideration Front and the Glide Foundation. This legendary 36-hour artistic event included Communication Company media activists Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward, who brought their Gestetner equipment. They set up shop in one of the church offices and issued bulletins and news flashes every few minutes. [LMC]
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