Congratulations to all the POP students who completed an amazing year! The OUR IDENTITIES exhibit at the NYPL library looks incredible and our presentation touched the staff and students at Bronx Green that attended the event. Remember it will be up all summer until August 30 so please bring your families and friends over the summer to show off the great work.
I also wanted to congratulate you on the DOORS OF REFLECTION art installation piece you created for the World Savvy Exhibit at NYU. The layers of your identities combined with the journey of your migration paths moved so many people!!!!! Plus you made the news! Check out these links to see the news! Shiquon and Clive's photo made the Daily News last Sunday! Mrs. DelaVaughn is so proud of you all!
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3573
http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/espanol/2008/06/16/2008-06-16_arte_inmigracin_e_identidad_global.html
Here are some quotes..:)
"Breaking up the space just beyond that is a series of hanging panels created by Bronx Green Middle School students, whose photography project resembles a graffiti-like assemblage of photos, words, poems and memories depicting the various places and experiences that forge the students’ identities. One student writes of constructing one’s identity by reconstructing the past: “Those old trees my father used to climb / When I go to Africa I shall do the same.” Another conveys a haunting memory of watching an aunt shot to death in Albania, a place “full of both beautiful and tragic” memories."....
..."Vivia Thompson, 13, whose "pedagogy of photography" class at Bronx Green Middle School created the hanging window panel displays, described how learning to express individual identities and hearing each others' stories led to an interesting conclusion: “We’re all different people who have really different backgrounds but we can all relate to one another.”
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