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The powerHouse Arena is pleased to invite you to:


Mi Kasi es tu Kasi*


Umuzi Photo Club Exhibition & Fundraiser

Thursday, December 9 – Saturday, December 12

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 9, 7–10PM

The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
rsvp: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Umuzi Photo Club's most powerful images, taken by township youth in Johannesburg, South Africa, will be displayed in their second exhibition in New York City this December. The exhibition offers candid, raw, poignant insight into Johannesburg slum life, from the perspective of its remarkably gifted and observant high-school photographers. The show makes this, its final stop for the year, after visiting galleries in London, Johannesburg, Melbourne, and Antwerp.

The opening reception will be held in The powerHouse Arena on Thursday evening, December 9, complimented by an auction of a signed and numbered print, Kasi Playground, by Oluwethu Mahina, a 14-year-old student at Zifuneleni Junior High School, in Soweto. Photographs and greeting cards will also be available for purchase. Proceeds from the exhibition will go towards expanding the photo club to more township youth.

Through photography, Umuzi Photo Club places young people from South Africa's developing communities at the center of conversations on important community issues, cutting through socio-economic and generational boundaries. Township youth develop photography, visual literacy, and critical thinking skills in fun, interactive workshops, and become advocates for change with their visual testimony of pressing community issues. The raw, honest images they shoot are exhibited in situ to encourage youth-centered, community dialogues, as well as to petition stakeholders, such as local government, to enact positive change. In this way, Umuzi facilitates child participation at a community level. Through international exhibitions and media coverage, Umuzi amplifies its young activists' messages to reach influential patrons at home, and abroad. Umuzi is thus a powerful local, as well as international platform for these otherwise marginalized young people to tell their stories.

*My Township is your Township
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For more information, please contact Lena Valencia, Events Coordinator:
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
tel: 718.666.3049 fax: 212.366.5247 email: lena@powerHouseArena.com