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Dr. Kaung’s Salon:

Haiti & Burma: Dictators, Disasters, International Aid

Facilitated by political economist, writer, and painter Kyi May Kaung.

Free and open to the public.

Friday, April 9, 7:10 to 8:30pm

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Human Rights Arts Festival

April 6 through April 30, 2010

Jeremy Austin, Kyi May Kaung, Anne Marchand
Amnesty International USA/The Human Rights Arts Festival
Tom Block, guest curator

Reception: Saturday, April 24, 6pm to 8pm

Jeremy Austin (Kefa Café)

A mixed media collage work with seven strips that represent the seven Baha'is who are currently imprisoned in Iran, due to their faith. A Baha'i prayer for aid and assistance overlays and unites the collage. From a distance it appears as a solid white painting, but as you get closer the details emerge.

Kyi May Kaung (Kefa Café)

Dr. Kaung, a graduate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, is currently a member of the TAN or Technical Advisory Network of the Exile Government of Burma. She is also a well-known poet and painter. She is sharing a portrait of the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Anne Marchand (Kefa Café)

The paintings refer to the energy of the cosmos to create and to destroy. We as human beings have a reflective ability to direct our energies, the Microcosm reflects the Macrocosm and vice versa. In our ability to discern we will make the right choices. The work is created in conjunction with Project RENEW, the first comprehensive management approach undertaken in Vietnam to restore the environment and neutralizethe effects of war.

Dr. Kaung's Salon: Haiti and Burma: Dictators, Disasters, and International Aid. An open community discussion facilitated by political economist and writer Dr. Kyi May Kaung: Friday, April 9, 7:10 to 8:30pm

March 2010 at Kefa Cafe's Space 7:10

March 2 through April 2, 2010

Artwork by artists of Community Vision day shelter who take classes with Art for the People.

Featuring ceramics by Alvin Thomas

Reception: Friday, March 26, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Civil Rights Book Discussion with Howard Feinstein

Book Discussion
Fire on the Bayou, a civil rights memoir by lawyer, litigator, educator, and musician Howard Feinstein
Friday, March 19, 7:10pm to 8:30pm


Howie says:

"Fire On The Bayou" is a memoir / history of my civil rights cases from back in the day, including prosecutions of the Ku Klux Klan, racially-motivated police brutality, cross-burnings, etc.

It also has a couple of more personal chapters about what it was like for me in the Deep South doing this stuff, how I got into it, etc.

The last chapter is sort of a review of civil rights with an eye toward where we are now, and what the current focus is.

Free and open to the public.

Late Winter and Spring Art, Coffee, Discussions

At Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe, Silver Spring, Maryland

MARCH 2010
March 2 through April 2
Art for the People
Art from Community Vision Day Shelter for the homeless
Featuring ceramics by Alvin Thomas
Reception: Friday, March 26, 6:30 to 8:30pm

***NEW: Open Sundays in March, April, and May! Starts March 17, 2010!***

Book Discussion, Fire on the Bayou, a civil rights memoir by lawyer, litigator, educator, and musician Howard Feinstein: Friday, March 19, 7:10pm to 8:30pm

APRIL 2010
April 6 through April 30
Amnesty International USA/The Human Rights Arts Festival
Tom Block, guest curator
Jeremy Austin, Kyi May Kaung, Anne Marchand
CHANGE in DATE and TIME, Reception: Saturday, April 24, 6pm to 8pm

JUST ADDED: Dr. Kaung's Salon: Haiti and Burma: Dictators, Disasters, and International Aid. An open community discussion facilitated by political economist and writer Dr. Kyi May Kaung: Friday, April 9, 7:10 to 8:30pm

MAY 2010
May 4 through June 4
The Siena School
Student work curated by art teacher James Coleman
Reception: Friday, May 7, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

JUNE 2010
June 7 through July 16
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
Healing Through Expression: Artist in Residence Julie Lin works with Torture Survivors
Reception and gallery talk: Friday, June 11, 6:30 to 8:30pm