Day Three

All,

All is running smoothly and the art program will be having its first Gallery Exhibition at the Kouna Trust Art Centre this Friday, it was all confirmed today and all the preparations have been made for this groups first ever, true art exhibition. It is the real deal. I will include the announcement. We are very excited and today was a day of intense work as we discovered there is no stock of art work for the show!!!! At the event last week, the art club sold ALL of their art. That is amazing and now they have to make enough art in the next few days to be able to show on Friday. The exciting this is that the Nation, the Standard and Reuters were invited and the kids may get some press.

The students were quiet today as they worked and they were very engaged. I had my laptop and they got to listen to Classical as they painted. Margaret's classes were quiet as well and although they did not listen to classical, they were listening to a performance that was happening in the assembly room in the new school that was echoing towards the class. They are excited and engaged. They are so attentive and once this art program really start moving each year, it seems to have a life of its own.

Dinner back at the community with the Jesuits and Sr. Mary Owens, the head of Nyumbani. It was great to see her and then we went and spent the last night with the Georgetown 2010 group. It is very nice having them all here. We will have a meal with them tomorrow before they depart.

Not much more to add but to say that it is exciting to do this work and we are happy that you are on this journey with us.

Be well,

Charles and Margaret

Below is the announcement:

kuona trust

centre for visual arts

Likoni Close, Likoni Lane, off Dennis Pritt Road, Hurlingham

PO Box 4802, Nyayo Stadium 00506

Tel: (254) 0202405960 Mobile: 0721 262326, 0733 742752

Artists of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School Exhibition

Opening 25^th June 2010 at 6.30 pm

St. Aloysius Gonzaga, is a Catholic secondary school that serves HIV/AIDS affected young people from the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

On an initial visit, Georgetown University administrators realizing the absence of a visual art education, created an art immersion program. These artists receive art instruction annually from these administrators who first visited Kibera in 2007. After the first year of this art immersion program the artists/students formed the art club which functions all year around with the intensive art instruction delivered in a two-week annual art immersion program for those students interested in art.

In its 3^rd year, the art immersion program has yielded some amazing artists that know how to convey their talent as well as their story about the place they live, the Kibera slum here in Nairobi, Kenya.

This has resulted in a successful body of work that really represents the fantastic art ability of the smart, beautiful and important students of St. Aloysius which has recently opened its new site in Lang’ata.

Please join us for this exhibition at the Kuona Trust, Centre for Visual Arts, Likoni Close, Likoni Lane off Dennis Pritt Rd, Hurlingham on Friday, June 25^th, 2010 at 6:30 pm for the opening of the “Artist of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School”. The show will be open through 27^th June 2010.

RSVP:

Kuona Trust

or

Charles DeSantis

Georgetown University

Tel. 0718767077