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{inside culture} cultural compendium Art Links Students from Haiti with Local High School A group of 10 talented young people from the Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC) in Jacmel, Haiti, visited Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice (TLHS), a charter school in Delray Beach, and several other cultural venues in the county in November. As special emissaries of the Haitian People, ACFFC Team MosaĂŻque Jacmel partnered with TLHS students − many of whom are either Haitian-American or recent immigrants from Haiti − to create a mosaic public art installation in Boynton Beach to honor Florida residents who have provided aid to the people of Haiti after natural disasters. This public art project will be registered with the State of Florida as part of Viva Florida 500, a statewide initiative of the Florida Department of State to celebrate 500 years of Florida history and diversity of
culture. The ACFFC youth also brought with them a mosaic mural memorializing the many Haitian lives lost at sea. While in South Florida, the ACFFC students audited academic classes at TLHS and visited the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in West Palm Beach along ACFFC students explore photography and other creative disciplines. with the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and Clay-Glass- instrumental in making the visit possible. Stone Cooperative Gallery in Lake Worth. Additional supporters included Jacmel’s Some of the ACFFC team members also Offices of the Ministries of Culture and visited the Haitian Embassy and Capitol Hill Tourism, the Mayor of Jacmel, Haiti, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and in Washington, DC. The project was sponsored by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. To learn more about ACFFC, a nonToussaint L’Ouverture High School and the Office of Public Diplomacy, Embassy of the profit arts organization dedicated to the United States, Port au Prince Haiti. The education and personal growth of youth in Office of Congresswoman Lois Frankel was need in Jacmel, Haiti, visit www.acffc.org.
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