Begins a Scar Photo & Poetry Project

Dear Friends,

We hope you're spending Thanksgiving weekend in happiness and safely surrounded by your closest ones during these critical times. Perhaps this also could be a time for reflection of our bigger, human family as well.

 

Recently I was honored to be a very small part of this extraordinary exhibition, Begins A Scar, a collaboration between world renown photographer Sandro Miller and poet and recipient of Library of Congress Bobbitt Prize Patricia Smith. It confronts the issue of name calling and the scars that follow. I have been identified by some of those names but I fully realize that other peoples "names" are much more devastating and have long lasting effects on their lives.

 

Hope that those powerful photographs and overwhelming poem brings more empathy to the subject.

 

Photos - Sandro Miller.  Poem - Patricia Smith

 


11/01/20 - 11/30/20


Dear Friends,
We hope you are spending your Thanksgiving weekend in happiness and safely surrounded by your closest ones during these critical times.


Perhaps this also could be a time for reflection about our bigger, human family as well. Recently I was honored to be a very small part of this extraordinary exhibition, Begins A Scar, a collaboration between world renown photographer Sandro Miller and poet and recipient of Library of Congress Bobbitt award Patricia Smith. It confronts the issue of name calling and the scars that follow. I have been identified by some of those names but I fully realize that other peoples "names" are much more devastating and have long lasting effects on their lives.


Hope that those powerful photographs and overwhelming poem brings more empathy to the subject.


Chopin Theatre has had the pleasure to host Patricia Smith a couple of times including very special appearance at National Poetry Slam, click here.


Sandro Miller won four awards for 2020 International Photography Awards:


MMM Homage
Off the Street Club
Begins A Scar
I am Papua New Guinea
  - 2020 IPA Lucie Awards


For more information about Chopin Theatre click here or for videos, here


 

Author
Photos - Sandro Miller. Poem - Patricia Smith

Tags: Polish, Visual Art, American, 2020