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Daytime events programme for
Revolution on paper:
Mexican prints 1910–1960
Special event
Day of the Dead
Sunday 1 November, 11.00–17.00
Join the fiesta! Celebrate this unique
Mexican holiday in a day of free events.
Lunchtime documentaries
Free, booking advised
Rivera in America
Saturday 23 January, 13.30
The story of the great Mexican muralist’s travels in the USA in the
1930s.
The Life and Death of Frida
Kahlo
Thursday 18 March, 13.15
The original documentary that brought Frida Kahlo out from under
the shadow of her husband Diego Rivera.
Lunchtime lectures and readings
Soldaderas, modern girls and Catholic ladies:
Mexican women 1900–1950
Friday 20 November,
13.15
By Patience Schell, Manchester University
Free, booking advised
Writing revolutionary art: Eduardo
Galeano on Mexico
Friday 29 January, 13.15
By John Howard, King’s College London
Free, just drop in
Calaveras, ballads, corridos and sensational
news stories: Posada’s backstory
Friday 4
December, 13.15
By Stephen Hart, University College London
Free, just drop in
Gallery talks
All gallery talks start at 13.15
Free, just drop in
The iconography and politics of the
Taller de Graficá Popular 1937–1960
Friday 30
October
By Alison McClean
Key moments of printmaking in Mexico
1910–1960
Tuesday 24 November
By Mark McDonald
Repeated on Thursday 14
January and Thursday 11 March
Narrating Mexico: printmaking, literature and
other stories
Saturday 6 February
By Laura Campbell
This talk is sign interpreted
Posada’s Day of the Dead prints: an unhallowed
supernatural
Thursday 12 November
By Tom Gretton
Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros: the Mexican
muralists as printmakers
Wednesday 9
December
By Laura Campbell
Repeated on Saturday 20 March
Mexican past
Wednesday 24
February
By Joanne Harwood
Workshops
Etching with a Mexican
twist
Friday 16 October, 14.00–17.00
£25, concessions £20, 16 places
Printmaking workshop
Saturday 6
February, 10.00–16.00
£30, concessions £25, 15 places