This rare Poster was for the event 'Violeta de Nuestramerica' in 1982, London. The image shows the great Chilean singer Violetta Parra against a Chilean flag. This event was a grassroots solidarity event organized by Chilean exiles and Latin American cultural groups in London during the early 1980s, visual documentation is mostly limited to surviving printed ephemera like this poster- RARE. The Poster has a title "Violeta de Nuestramerica" and performance/event info for a production celebrating Parra's life and work (La Creación de Violeta Parra a través de Música Danza Teatro Poesía y Diapositivas) held on Friday, April 2, 1982, at Edric Hall, South Bank Polytechnic (London, UK), organized in solidarity with Chile. 

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. Her birthdate (4 October) was chosen as "Chilean Musicians' Day." In 2011, Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos). Violetta composed the iconic Latin American folk anthem "Gracias a la Vida" in 1966.

In the 1970s and 1980s, approximately 2,500 to 3,000 Chilean exiles immigrated to the United Kingdom, with London serving as their primary hub. This wave of migration was driven primarily by the 1973 military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende's government and installed General Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship. Violetta Parra's music was rebel, anti-fascist, and a beacon to all South Americans seeking refuge from political oppression which was rampant throughout S. America at the time (ie 'Banana Republic').

On 11 September 1973, a military coup overthrew Chile’s democratically elected socialist government and ushered forth 17 years of dictatorship. Tens of thousands were imprisoned and tortured, and more than 3,300 murdered and disappeared. In Britain, trade unionists, politicians, academics, students, musicians, church groups and others mobilised in diverse and expansive ways against the new regime. Chilean events, and the arrival of more than 3,000 Chilean refugees, also stimulated conversations about human rights, democracy, and refuge in Britain.

The London School of Economics (LSE) used this poster image for their 2023 exhibition 'Resistance, Rights & Refuge Britain and Chile 50 years after the Chilean Coup'. Marks 50 years of British solidarity with Chile and Chileans’ contribution to the UK, LSE hosted an exhibition at the LSE Library with a series of events. Curated by Dr Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles in partnership with the LSE Library and the Living Refugee Archive, our Resistance, Rights and Refuge project explored the history and memory of Britain’s relationship with Chile 50 years after the Chilean Coup as well as the legacies for today.

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Condition: In frame appears in good slightly yellowing condition. See Fotos.

Size: 18" x 24" inches. (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm). Framed.