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Children of Bam Art Exhibition

More than 100 artworks made by the children in Bam through the ICT-Art relief  program sponsored by SAF,  along with some photographs were presented at the 11th iEARN conference in Slovakia.  The exhibition was visited and welcomed by all participants of the conference.  A fund raising program was also active at the exhibition, with the help  of Doris Wo of iEARN- Taiwan and Yoko Takagi of iEARN- Japan and  a few individuals  a total of 930$ was raised for the children of Bam.

          


Followed by the conference in Slovakia another exhibition was set up in Vienna. A team of three SAF staff presented the artworks at Avenida Culture of Peace Galleria in Vienna. The director of the gallery Ms. Joanne Tawfilis very kindly and with high sensitivity toward children’s artworks organized this exhibition.  The opening ceremony took place on July 20,2004 in a warm atmosphere, the Iranian community as well as other interested individuals visited the gallery.

Joanne Tawfilis is the facilitator of The Art Miles Mural Project in iEARN and her project is also an official project of the UNESCO Decade of the Culture of Peace and Non Violence Among Children of the World.



 

Kurier one of the most prestigious news papers in Vienna covered the news on the exhibition with introducing Science and
Arts Foundation.