Opening: UNSEENAMERICA: Arab Women in Brooklyn

UNSEENAMERICA: Arab Women in Brooklyn, began as a 12 week photography workshop taught as part of UNSEENAMERICA, a nation-wide, community-based arts and social justice program. Run by Bread and Roses, a 29-year old organization dedicated to bringing cultural experiences to the disenfranchised, the program transforms ordinary people into artists with cameras, encouraging them to document and describe their worlds through photography and original texts.

Arab women now living in Brooklyn, recent immigrants from Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan, participated in the workshop to learn to take photos of their lives. The class was held this past spring at the Arab American Family Support Center (AAFSC). During the course of the workshop, participants were loaned digital cameras and taught by photographer Shari Diamond, how to use them. They were given hands-on instruction and encouraged to turn their lenses on themselves and their lives. What emerges from their work is a powerful representation of their lives and communities.

UNSEENAMERICA: Arab Women in Brooklyn
A Project of Bread and Roses 1199SEIU

Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Opening Reception and Reading 6 - 8 pm
Heather Raffo, playwright and actress, will read from her play “Nine Parts of Desire.”

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