Gaza Exhibition in Frome

somerset | peace | event notice Tuesday February 09, 2010 14:31 by Ed Hill - Palestine Solidarity Campaign

LOSS OF INNOCENCE: GAZA CHILDREN’S ARTWORK

Frome Friends of Palestine are proud to announce that Frome will be hosting an important exhibition of children’s art. Last year’s bombardment of Gaza left at least 300 children dead, and over 1400 children lost one or both of their parents. A third of children now suffer from mental health problems and all of them are traumatized.

With the support of UNESCO, children throughout the Gaza Strip were encouraged to express their experience in art to help the therapeutic process. Rod Cox, who spent two months in Gaza after the bombardment working on the project, returned to Britain with an impressive selection of pictures, and he promised the children that he would display them to as many people as possible in the world outside the prison camp that is Gaza.

Loss of Innocence: Gaza Children’s Artwork opened in Liverpool Cathedral last September and has been touring ever since. By kind permission of the Vicar, the Rev. Colin Alsbury, the exhibition will be on display in St John’s Church, Frome, from Monday March 8 to Friday March 19, every day except Sunday. Hours from 10am to 4pm except Mon 8 (opens 2pm) and Thurs 11 and 18 (opens 11am). Admission free.

OFFICIAL LAUNCH
Monday March 8, 7:30 pm at St John’s Church, with a talk by Rod Cox. He can be seen discussing the exhibition in a short clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=575N0JRzaIs

For more information, contact adam.stout@virgin.net