Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.409.12.14
Object Name
Poster
Title
September Cultural Festival Guatemala El Salvador Chile
Events
Chilean Coup
Date
1982
Description
Poster advertising the "September Cultural Festival". The poster has a black background with white text. At the top reads "September cultural festival music theatre poetry exhibition films seminars workshop" followed by "Guatamala El Salvador Chile" and the sponsors: Chile Solidarity Campaign, Cuba Resource Centre, Cule Culture Committee, El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, and Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. Below the text is an image of a soldier playing a french horn and holsing a red balloon. Within the balloon is an image of men, women and children behind a wire fence, alluding to the imprisonment of political prisoners and their families by Pinochet's Junta and other dictatorships in Central and Southern America.
