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El Salvador Traveling Exhibit
El Salvador: A traveling exhibit of photographs and
interviews, “We have to dream while awake.”
Photographs by Peggy Harrison;
Interviews and Text by Sharon Davie
This traveling exhibit intertwines stunning photographs by Peggy Harrison and interviews conducted by Sharon Davie in El Salvador in 2006 and 2007, to tell a compelling story of the courage of Salvadoran women and their communities.
It also offers glimpses into other worlds—the unflinching eyes of a young girl who is a former gang member, the portrait of a former guerilla who is clearly never at rest, images of the day-to-day life of women, men, and children in the rural community of Ciudadela Guillermo Ungo who are poor, but immensely rich in spirit.
The women portrayed include internationally-known human rights activist and Supreme Court Justice Mirna Perla; Gloria Hernandez Miranda, leader of a rural group that defends and “accompanies” battered women to a new life; a woman of the Committee of the Mothers of the Disappeared, which received the first Robert F. Kennedy Freedom Award for Human Rights; and women of the joyful and spirited collective Acosilva.
In an interview, one member of the Acosilva collective explains how challenging it is to live as women and families in a violent section of El Salvador, and still imagine, and work for, peace. “We have to dream,” she said, “while awake.”
The text of the interviews is offered in Spanish and English.
To find out about other venues for the traveling exhibit during 2008-2009, call 434-982-2361.
Cosponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Office of Diversity and Equity, the Parents Program, and the AKC Fund.
“We Have to Dream While Awake: Courage and Change in El Salvador”
A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Newcomb Hall Art Gallery
Reception immediately following.
A diverse group of panelists will help attendees explore issues of ethics, history, culture, and current movements toward change in El Salvador. These issues relate not only to El Salvador, but also to Central and Latin America more broadly, and to a larger set of choices facing our nation.
Panelists will include Latin American historian Tico Braun; sociologist Rae Blumberg; Linda Hemby, a Salvadoran citizen and practitioner of “liberation theology”; Women’s Center director Sharon Davie; Roberta Culbertson, director of the Violence and Survival Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; and others.
Open discussion will follow panelists’ comments. Translation in Spanish/English. (The El Salvador exhibit is also in English and Spanish.)
The reception following in the Newcomb Hall Art Gallery will offer the chance for informal discussion against the backdrop of the traveling exhibit.
Cosponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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