Community Photo Project At The New Children’s Library! 4800 West 10th st • little rock
Exhibit open Now thru April 6 meet the young photographers on saturday, april 6 • 3-5pm Please join us in celebrating the hard work of these talented young photographers. They’ll be on hand to answer your questions about their photographs.
Why a youth photo exhibit?
Arkansas Voices, a non-profit organization working with children left behind by incarceration or the loss of a guardian, has partnered with Clinton School student Maggie Carroll to facilitate a youth photography project. The children and teenagers have learned to use cameras, take photos on the topic of their choice, and most importantly…take ownership and pride in their work.
www.arkansasvoices.org 6th AnnuAl
sAturdAy, APril 6
show stArts At 7:30Pm ViP mixer beGins At 6:30Pm Benefiting the timmons Arts foundAtion
metroPlex eVent Center 10800 Colonel Glenn roAd For more info, contact info@timmonsarts.org or 501-221-1792 GenerAl Admission $35 • ViP $55
hosted by Actor Lamman Rucker Designer Korto Momolu Heather Brown of Alice 107.7
sPonsored by
Butler Furniture Depot
FeAtured desiGners Erik Sellers Shannon Jeffery Hope Smith Darby Logan Katya Aksenuk Shonda Stroud Ali-Shamaa Chavon Sewell Abby Alba Tamara Rudley Drake Smith Aalyiah Fisher
Tickets can be purchased at Jeante’ One of One, Vogue Visage, Box Turtle, Butler Furniture Depot, Uncle T’s, and online at www.dcfplr2013.eventbrite.com 82
MARCH 28, 2013
ARKANSAS TIMES
AFTER DARK, CONT. by Marty Smith; “A Collective Vision,” recent acquisitions, through March. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351. MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese-American Soldiers in World War II,” through August. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “The Inauguration of Hope,” life-sized sculpture of the First Family by Ed Dwight; “Forty Years of Fortitude,” exhibit on Arkansas’s African-American legislators of the modern era. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Sat. 683-3593.
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Grossology: The Impolite Science of the Human Body,” through May 26; “GPS Adventures,” ages 6 to adult, through April 1; “Wiggle Worms,” science program for pre-K children 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. every Tue., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050. OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “Battle Colors of Arkansas,” 18 Civil War flags; “Things You Need to Hear: Memories of Growing up in Arkansas from 1890 to 1980,” oral histories about community, family, work, school and leisure. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.
GLOBAL KIDS, CONT. When he and Vinson got back to Arkansas, he knew he wanted to help other people have similar experiences, particularly underprivileged youths who might not otherwise get such a chance. “Ferocious, it was his first time overseas,” Morrow said. “We spoke many times over there about how his eyes were opened and it was life-changing for him. I think he tried to avoid the superlatives or cliches, but he was like, ‘Once you come back, it’s not the same. You look at yourself and the world differently.’ ” Morrow was discussing all of this with Kimberly McClure, a friend and classmate from Stanford University who works for the United Nations. McClure mentioned Global Kids, an educational program for high school students that teaches them about international relations and sends some of them overseas for hands-on learning and collaboration with other students and foreign governments. The program was started in New York City in 1989 and has since worked with hundreds of thousands of students in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas. McClure spearheaded the fundraising effort to bring the program to D.C. and sits on the board of directors for the organization. Morrow and several other collaborators will be fundraising from April 15-28 to help bring Global Kids to Little Rock. They’ll need to raise something in the neighborhood of $100,000 for a group of 12 students and their chaperones. It’s a group effort that will involve input from several different artists and organizations. The team is seeking corporate and nonprofit foundation sponsorships and will put together a three-on-three basketball tournament, a scavenger hunt and various other events, concerts, parties and such. Epiphany, Arkansas Bo and other musicians will contribute songs for exclusive download, with proceeds benefiting the project. “I think this will be the first time
trying something like this,” said Evie Hantzopolous, executive director of Global Kids. Epiphany is “so motivated and determined to make it happen that we’re willing to experiment and see whether or not we can raise the money that we need to provide this program for young people in Little Rock.” The program would be a fourweek course in July, with two weeks of classes, lectures and field trips in Little Rock and then two weeks in the Dominican Republic, Haiti or Costa Rica. Instructors from Global Kids would come to Arkansas to lead the classes and also travel with the students overseas, along with local chaperones. “The students learn about different world issues often through a humanrights framework,” Hantzopolous said. “We expose them to things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international treaties and use those as a way to examine issues going on not only in the world but also in their own communities.” The students also receive training in leadership, problem solving, digital media, public speaking and many other tools that will help them thrive in whatever avenues they pursue in college and beyond. “If they’re going to look at an issue like gun violence, they’re not just going to learn about gun violence in New York and D.C., but how it ties into domestic policy and the international small arms treaty and all sorts of things,” she said. “So there’s a real broadening of their perspective on what this issue means.” Even if the entire amount isn’t raised by the deadline, the money will go toward an effort to bring Global Kids to Little Rock next year, Hantzopolous said. But Morrow said he and the rest of the team are confident about hitting their fundraising goal and are motivated by the challenge. The Times will have all the details about the fundraising events in the coming weeks.