About this Event
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Please join us for a special screening of the award winning documentary film Tell Them We Were Here at Gallery 16, April 26th at 7:30.
Director Griff Williams, artist Tucker Nichols will be on hand to discuss the film. Tucker Nichols is featured in the documentary along with 7 other Bay Area artists.
Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and remind us that we are stronger together. San Francisco was arguably the countercultural epicentre of the latter part of the 20th century—a refuge for artists, activists and weirdos, a place where political activism proliferated, a city in which to live and make art free of commercial pressures.
Tell Them We Were Here traces the throughline of that history into the 21st century, probing the artistic practices of seven notable Bay Area artists. Each is interested in challenging the transactional value of art, and all seem to be more interested in a life, rather than a career, in the arts. These artists have developed art practices that benefit their communities and center ideas of civic responsibility, social activism and healing divisions of inequality in spite of the Bay Area’s increasingly unequal and unaffordable realities.
Featured artists include Sadie Barnette, Amy Franceschini, Jim Goldberg, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alicia McCarthy, Tucker Nichols, Nigel Poor, and Michael Swaine.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gallery 16, 501 3rd Street, San Francisco, United States
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