Faye sent this email out today. I wish that I could go!
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Dear friends,
I know that most of you are in the east coast, but if you are going to be in the LA/Seal Beach area during June 19-28, you can go see a really cool photography exhibit by our Lighthouse youths. This photo project involved youth in the Lighthouse program in Sierra Leone, West Africa and in Grace Community Church of Seal Beach, California Jr High and High-School groups.
The artists were each given a disposable camera, and asked to record images exploring the concepts of brokenness and beauty in their homes, and in the city around them. Some of our youth had never held a camera before, but were able to take some really amazing pictures. I think some of the pictures will have descriptions of why they took and why they found the images beautiful and broken.
The exhibit opens on June 19th 2007, from 5:30 – 9:00pm. Cami Sigler (my friend, roommate and field director) will be there on the day it opens to share more about our WMF community here, and the youth participating in this project. She is a person you would love to meet!
Please attend if you are in the area. If you have friends and family in the area, please let them know about. I think it will be an awesome show. Feel free to forward this info to folks that may be interested.
If you want to know more about the project you can go to the Broken-Beautiful website. After the exhibit, they will post the pictures on that website. So if you are not in the area and still want to see the pictures, you can check out it then.
As always, thanks for your support. Please feel free to email me- feiliyu@gmail.com – to say hi. I love getting emails. For more updates about what is going on in my head or life in Freetown, don’t forget to check out my blog.
Love,
Faye