Sunday, April 25th, 2010 — 6:00 to 9:00pm ~ A Thousand Blooms ~ is a photo exhibition/ custom-tees catwalk modeling/ short films screening event to celebrate the liberating, redemptive, and galvanizing “thousand blooms” power of love for humanity through artistic expressions that affirm human rights, heal injustices, and breach cultural, societal and religious divides.
PROGRAM:
* Catwalk Modeling of Love Is Love Tees, a custom designed and cut series of tee-shirts featuring arts images of gay, lesbian, and interfaith & interracial couples. Portion of the proceeds from their sales go to support and promote these “minority” relationships
* Arts photo exhibition from the True Beauty – Young Womanhood in DC photobok project (www.truebeautydc.org) that profiles through images and stories the inner beauties and humanistic sensibilities of modern womanhood in Washington DC
* Screening of Arthouse Short Films and Q&A Panel with Richard Chu, their writer/director and co-producer: “Return of the Cicadas” about the spiritual redemption of a Vietnam War vet and the Amerisian daughter he abandoned; “Eros” about how three Asian, White, and Black couples affirm their cross-cultural and sexual identities by liberating themselves from cultural and societal constraints; “The Wish of Harriet” about how a Iraq War Vet suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome redeems his life and reclaims his family by making the wish of Harriet, a African American orphan girl come true
Seed the Sound Sunday (An acoustic jam session with music from a diversity of genres), will follow “A Thousand Blooms” at 9:00pm. Artist in Bloom Resident Fellows Terrence Cunningham and Carolyn Malachi will headline the inspirational evening
