Darfur/Darfur September 6, 2007

DARFUR/DARFUR
ICA PRESENTS STIRRING ALL-DAY PHOTO EXHIBIT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Featuring Free Outdoor Performance by Berklee Voices of Mercy

Event Includes Appearances by Pulitzer Prizewinner Samantha Power, Cellist Yo-Yo Ma

ICA/Boston presents an awareness-raising day of larger-than-life images of the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. The images, by some of the most important photojournalists working today, will be digitally projected from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on large screens inside the ICA's Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, as part of the unique traveling exhibit, Darfur/Darfur, curated by Leslie Thomas. The event includes a program from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with a keynote address by Pulitzer prize-winning author Samatha Power; an overview of the crisis with Susannah Sirkin, Director of Physicians for Human Rights and photographer Michal Ronnen Safdie; and a performance by renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The photos will also be visible through the museum’s glass walls from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., accompanied by a free outdoor performance on the Putnam Investments Plaza by Berklee College of Music Voices of Mercy.

Berklee Voices of Mercy performs songs from the CD We Are All Connected: Berklee College of Music Reaches Out to the Women of Darfur, a collection of r&b, soul, jazz, pop, world, and gospel songs written, performed, and produced by Berklee students, faculty, staff, and alumni, to raise awareness of the plight of women and children affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The project was inspired by a fact-finding trip to the Darfur region by prominent Boston women.

Berklee College of Music Voices of Mercy is organized by Lynette Gittens and Shannon Kim, co chairs of the CD committee, and includes Berklee students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Admission to the ICA theater, located at 100 Northern Ave., is free with museum admission from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tickets to the evening speaking program are SOLD OUT. Loudspeakers will be set up on the plaza outside the ICA to make the program audible to all, free of charge.