The Beehive Design Collective will be presenting two of their nationally recognized banners and storytelling presentations this Thursday and Friday in Burnham Lounge located in the Robie-Andrews residential hall on the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus.
The Beehive Design Collective is a volunteer non-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of environmental and world issues through the storytelling and symbolic voice of art. Their whimsical drawings of animals personified, entangle themselves with serious complex issues, creating a simpler way to face some of the more ugly truths of our contemporary world.
The Collective, which is based in Machais, has traveled extensively through the United States and shared their presentation with a wide variety of audiences such as The Association of American Geographers, Bard College and the California Institute of Art.
Both presentations are free to all members of the community. Thursday’s presentation, “Mountain Top Removal: The True Cost of Coal,” takes place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. And Friday’s presentation, “Dismantling Monoculture: Tales of Ants and the Economy of the Americas” is from 1 to 2 p.m.