The Modern Story Exhibit at Zeum!
Opening: Saturday, March 7, 3-5PM at Zeum: 221 Fourth St. at Howard, San Francisco
We would like to share some exciting news: The Modern Story will be opening an exhibit at San Francisco’s Children’s Museum, Zeum! All the work created by our students & fellows, including videos, photography and drawings will be on display in Zeum’s Spiral Gallery for the month of March. Prior to the exhibit, The Modern Story taught a series of weekend workshops at Zeum. During these workshops, we showed Bay Area youth excerpts of the stories created in Andhra Pradesh and initiated a dialogue by teaching the participants how to create digital postcards in response. The participants, from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, were extremely eager to hear about the students in India and to ask them questions and tell them about their lives in return. We will be showing some of the postcards at the exhibit, side by side with the student work from India.
The Spiral Gallery can be seen from outside the Zeum structure
The exhibit will open on Saturday, March 7 and we have gathered quite an audience thus far. It has been indescribably rewarding for Remy and I to collect all the work and put together a display that gives credit to the amazing effort that has been sustained by the students, by the fellows, by our in-country staff members, and by the administration of the schools in which we work.
In printing the photographs taken by the students, the vibrant colors of this program and of the students’ lives and messages have truly come alive.
We will post photographs and a video tour of the exhibit soon. A special thanks & congratulations to all the students and teachers at C. Ramchand Girls High School, to A.P. Boys Residential School, to Vijayanagar High School, to Swarna Kapoor and the American India Foundation, to Evita Fernandez, Campos & The Fernandez Hospital, to our incredible fellows, Mona Yeh, Dave Kutz, Ioana Literat and Sarah Calvert, and to Zeum for allowing our dreams of a global youth exchange to materialize.
And of course, thank you to our friends and family for all your support and love throughout this journey. We are so grateful.
We hope to see you at the exhibit; whether virtually or in person!
-Piya & Remy
Emily
March 27, 2009 - 5:44 pm
Congratulations on the exhibit. It was quite amazing and inspirational. I am so fortunate that I had the opportunity to see such a great exhibit! All the stories that were ‘published’ demonstrated the strength of the people of lower castes of India. The opportunity to see this exhibit was so great, thank you for providing such inspirational stories.