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Category: Mini Festival
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Event Id: 66443
Posted: Sep.16.2009
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New Orleans Lamplight Circle presents...
Invisible Children Screening
When: Nov. 8th. 2009
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
See the documentaries that are rocking the nation, and helping Uganda!
Event Details: Invisible Children is a NGO (non-government organization) that is educating Americans, and people all over the world, about the 23-year war that has been going on in Uganda. Their goal is to inform regular citizens (like us) about the lives of children and families in Uganda that have been torn apart by war, disease, kidnapping, rape, and displacement camps where children die every day from malnourishment. Remember what it felt like to be forced out of New Orleans because your home flooded, and the city was deserted? Do you remember the people who were trapped in the Superdome and the Convention Center? Now, imagine that they stayed there for 23 YEARS!! You might come close to the true-life stories of Ugandan refugees.
A little about the documentary that began Invisible Children:
In the spring of 2003, three young filmmakers traveled to Africa in search of a story. What started out as a filmmaking adventure transformed into much more when these boys from Southern California discovered a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them, a tragedy where children are both the weapons and the victims. After returning to the States, they created the documentary “Invisible Children: Rough Cut, ” a film that exposes the tragic realities of northern Uganda’s night commuters and child soldiers. See this film and you will be forever changed.
Lamplight Circle is technically hosting this event, but Invisible Children will be running the show. A crew of 4-6 people from the Invisible Children Headquarters in San Diego are driving down to New Orleans to screen several films documenting the lives of Uganda's invisible children. These people are extremely dedicated, and are giving 5 months of their time for free (and they're not getting paid to do this) in order to show the public the travesty of Uganda, and to motivate us to contact representatives and push our legislators to help end the war in Uganda and send the refugees home, keep the children safe, arrest Joseph Kony (who kidnaps African children and forces them to be soldiers) , to help build schools, and to create a new life for the victims of this horrific war.
These documentaries will show you real-life Uganda, including exposes on several brave children who have endured more than we can imagine.
There are many ways that you can help, but the most important way is to educate yourself. All you have to do is show up and watch the films.
Invisible Children wants you to remember: Every war has an end.
Please visit www.invisiblechildren.com to see their mission, and the amazing ways that they involve Americans in their battle to end a war.
Event Location: Corner of Esplanade and Ponce de Leon in New Orleans
Event TIME Details: Introduction to screening starts at 5 PM sharp; wi
Directions: Alcee Fortier Park is on the corner of Ponce de Leon and Esplanade Ave., 5 blocks from City Park in Bayou St. John. For mapquest, use address 3133 Ponce de Leon, New Orleans, 70119.
Website: http://www.meetup.com/lamplight
Website II: http://www.invisiblechildren.com
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