PRESS
RELEASE
310.395.3204 ext.446 23 JAN 2009
PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBIT AT
Santa
Monica High School’s Roberts Art Gallery,
in conjunction with the teachers of the Freshman Seminar class and the students
for the Be The Change Club, invite
you to the second opening of Barbara Grover’s photographs “Refuge(e): Moments with the Darfuri of Iridimi”.
This
Exhibit will be on view Monday through Friday from January 27, 2009, until
February 3, 2009, by appointment only. The Opening Reception will be held on January
27, 2009 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm.
This
Exhibit will be on display as a courtesy of the Sherry Frumkin Gallery and The Jewish World Watch.
Ms.
Grover’s insightful collection of photographs, taken in the Iridimi
refugee camp in Chad in 2007, depict the daily life and plight of refugees
displaced by the genocide in the Darfur region of the Western Sudan in
Northeastern Africa.
This
Exhibit’s primary objective is to enhance public awareness of the tragic state
of affairs in Darfur and raise funds for “Solar Cookers” to distribute to
displaced families in that region. Darfuri women risk attack and rape on a daily basis when
they venture out of their camps into the wilderness to forage for food and fuel
(namely, firewood collection). The distribution of solar cookers to Darfuri women has proven a formidable combatant against
such attacks and rapes by significantly reducing their dependence on
wood-burning stoves. Solar cookers are
an alternative source of energy designed to use sunlight as their energy source
and advantageous because they use no fuel and cost nothing to operate.
Please join
us in promoting this worthy cause.
Roberts Art Gallery is situated on the campus of
For
additional information contact David Wood: 310.395.3204 x446 or dwood@smmusd.org.
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