POSTER4TOMORROW

To celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2009, we organized 22 worldwide events. The best 100 posters will be part of a number of exhibitions in venues ranging from universities to art galleries and cultural centers.
We hope that these events will be the ideal settings for purposeful
meetings and debates to discuss the state of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression in today’s world. The jury selected the best 100 posters of the 1834 entries we received.

The jury included: Marjane Satrapi, the author and filmmaker of Persepolis; prominent Iranian graphic designers Reza Abedini and Saed Meshki; internationally renowned graphic designers Alain Le Quernec, Pierre Bernard and Woody Pirtle; and Tommaso Minnetti and Pasquale Volpe, founders of the world’s largest social communication project Good50x70. They selected the best 100 entries collected in this exhibItion and in a catalogue.

Two marquee exhibitions will be held in Paris at the Louvre Museum and in Milan at La Triennale museum, while other exhibitions will be held in: Ankara Beirut, Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cheonan, Derry, La Paz, Lima, Los Angeles, Marrakesh, Montreal, Seville, Stockholm, Vienna and many others.

Finally, all the posters will be collected and published in a 96 page catalogue, by the comments of our jurors and of some important personalities in the field of human rights: Roberto Saviano, journalist and author of “Gomorra”; Jean-François Julliard, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders; Yoani Sanchez, cuban blogger; Zara Tofigh, the representative for Network Iran Human Rights in Italy; Françoise Schein, founder of Inscrire and many others.

Poster4Tomorrow has been granted the patronage of UNESCO and the Council of Europe: two of the most important organisations in the world for furthering legal standards and respect of human rights and humanity fundamental freedoms.

December 10, 2009 Events

61th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights exhibitions
For more information about the events, check the "DECEMBER 10" page of our website www.poster4tomorrow.org or our Facebook events page.

Ankara, Turkey
Bilkent University
10-18.12.2009

Beirut, Lebanon
Lebanese American University
10-17.12.2009

Belgrade, Serbia
REX, Cultural Lab
10-14.12.2009

Brussels, Belgium
Libre Académie de Belgique
10-13.12.2009

Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires
10-20.12.2009

Cheonan, South Korea
SangMyung University
10-13.12.2009

Derry, United Kingdom
University of Ulster
10.12.2009-8.1.2010

Gdansk, Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk
10-13.12.2009

Heidelberg, Germany
Theaterplatz, Heidelberg
10-18.12.2009

La Paz, Bolivia
Museo Nacional de Arte
10.12.2009-8.1.2010

Lima, Peru
Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
10-15.12.2009

Lisbon, Portugal
Lx Factory
10-14.12.2009
Los Angeles, United States
Seyhoon Gallery
10-17.12.2009

Marrakesh, Morocco
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels
10-25.12.2009

Milan, Italy
La Triennale di Milano
10-20.12.2009

Montreal, Canada
École de Design, UQAM
10-14.12.2009

Paris, France
Les Arts Décoratifs
10-13.12.2009

Quito, Ecuador
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
10.12.2009-10.1.2010

Sevilla, Spain
Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla
10-17.12.2009

Stockholm, Sweden
Designens Hus
10-13.12.2009

Strasbourg, France
Agora Building, Council of Europe
10.12.2009-10.3.2010

Tbilisi, Georgia
French Embassy Cultural Center
10-20.12.2009

Vienna, Austria
designforum Wien, MuseumsQuartier
10-22.12.2009

MANIFESTO

Freedom of expression, the simple freedom to say what you want, about whatever you want, is a right that most of us can enjoy without even thinking. Even more now that the internet has given us a forum for debate and criticism wider and more instant than ever before. Online, or offline, it’s possible to say anything without any form of consequence, and most of the time we come up with nothing more profound than: Your album sucks. England is a shithole. Berlusconi is corrupt. But in many other countries freedom of expression is a much more serious subject. People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for daring to criticise their governments, calling for more democracy and press freedom, or exposing human rights abuses online. It’s just not right. So on behalf of those who don’t enjoy the same freedom of expression that you do, we’d like to invite you to create a poster for a better tomorrow – where we can all say what we want, whenever we want. Our hope with “Poster4Tomorrow” is to spark a movement to inspire people to stand together against injustice across the world. A movement that will start next year and continue next year and every year until we change something. Because one poster is a start, hundreds, thousands will become a movement for a better tomorrow.

Contacts

Paris
—Setareh Farsi
setareh@poster4tomorrow.org
+33 608 753 448
—Nathalie Foster
nathalie@poster4tomorrow.org
+33 610 959 124
—Hervé Matine
info@poster4tomorrow.org
+33 688 884 151

Milan
—Laura D'Angelo
press@poster4tomorrow.org
+39 02 891 518 89

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