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Millennium Project
May 29 - August 27, 2006
The personal experience of poverty, violence, homelessness, addiction, discrimination and illiteracy can be debilitating, particularly to youth. A photo-therapy program in Surrey is applying these youth’s experiences as inspiration to create powerful messages of hope and to mobilize positive change, not only for themselves, but for the world. Drawing from their experience on the street, local “at risk” youth participating in a Surrey based recovery program have been creating photographs in response to the United Nations eight Millennium Goals for making a better world. Over 200 photographs, created by nineteen youth photographers using newly learned digital photography skills, were on exhibit for one day only as an event at the Surrey Art Gallery on Monday, May 29. During this exhibit, the public voted on images that best motivated action to fulfil the UN’s Millennium goals. The selected photos will be presented at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver (June 19-23). Eight will be enlarged into banners to be exhibited at Canada Place. Another eight will be made into postcard-sized images, to be given the five thousand conference delegates coming from all over the world. The selected Millennium Project photographs will also be exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery from June throughout the summer.
May 29 - August 27, 2006
The personal experience of poverty, violence, homelessness, addiction, discrimination and illiteracy can be debilitating, particularly to youth. A photo-therapy program in Surrey is applying these youth’s experiences as inspiration to create powerful messages of hope and to mobilize positive change, not only for themselves, but for the world. Drawing from their experience on the street, local “at risk” youth participating in a Surrey based recovery program have been creating photographs in response to the United Nations eight Millennium Goals for making a better world. Over 200 photographs, created by nineteen youth photographers using newly learned digital photography skills, were on exhibit for one day only as an event at the Surrey Art Gallery on Monday, May 29. During this exhibit, the public voted on images that best motivated action to fulfil the UN’s Millennium goals. The selected photos will be presented at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver (June 19-23). Eight will be enlarged into banners to be exhibited at Canada Place. Another eight will be made into postcard-sized images, to be given the five thousand conference delegates coming from all over the world. The selected Millennium Project photographs will also be exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery from June throughout the summer.
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