{"id":3513,"date":"2011-02-21T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:58:54","slug":"brixton-nuclear-dawn-mural-turns-30-a-party-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-nuclear-dawn-mural-turns-30-a-party-follows\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A large crowd of around 60 folks turned up to celebrate the 30th birthday of one of Brixton&#8217;s most iconic murals, &#8220;Nuclear\u00a0dawn,&#8221; a slowly fading 50ft high mural featuring a &#8216;skeletal figure of Death&#8217; with cruise missiles against a sky filled with a nuclear explosion\u00a0<em>(archive\u00a0pic: gramsci).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located\u00a0at the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Atlantic Road, a ceremony and plaque unveiling was held outside the mural, with organiser Ruth giving a talk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A plaque celebrating the anniversary was unveiled by the original artists, Brian Barnes and Dale McCrea.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony went a little awry!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-07.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cakes and\u00a0badges at \u00a0the Dogstar, where an\u00a0interesting\u00a0free talk and slideshow was held.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-08.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Nuclear Dawn mural turns 30, a party follows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can vouch for the quality of the cakes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/342684-Free-Talk-About-Nuclear-Dawn-Mural-Sunday-20th-February-2011-12-30-at-Dogstar!\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss the mural event here<\/a><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/londonmuralpreservationsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Mural Preservation Society]<\/a> &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldtop.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pics by Goldtop<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large crowd of around 60 folks turned up to celebrate the 30th birthday of one of Brixton&#8217;s most iconic murals, &#8220;Nuclear\u00a0dawn,&#8221; a slowly fading 50ft high mural featuring a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[34,1191],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-art","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-nuclear-free-mural-50-years-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-UF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}