An Art Affair

The Madeira School African Affairs Club will be hosting the second annual, community-wide charity event  “An Art Affair” on May 4th. This event will be an art auction/benefit featuring student artwork, student performers, and professional art with all proceeds going to the extremely worthy organization Freedom in Creation. Freedom in Creation is a non-profit organization, founded by Andrew Briggs, that uses the therapeutic qualities of art to promote peace and unity for the war-afflicted and displaced children of Uganda. Uganda has been afflicted by war for 23 years. During the course of the war millions of people have been displaced to overcrowded internally displaced persons camps with unconscionable weekly death rates. Children are overwhelmingly the most affected victims of the conflict. Some 65,000 children have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and forced to participate as soldiers, sex slaves, and laborers. Long-term healing demands increased psychological care, basic water infrastructure, and access to education.

Freedom in Creation provides weekly art classes that allow children to express themselves in a healthy peer environment, help to reinstate their dignity, and encourage socialization and reintegration of former child soldiers into mainstream society. The children’s artwork is exhibited internationally telling their stories while simultaneously raising funds to bring clean water and educational infrastructure to their communities.

Our goal with “An Art Affair” is to unite our community in the task of telling these very important and too little heard stories and to spread the message of peace. We would be thrilled if you would join us in spreading this message and supporting the communities of Uganda by attending "An Art Affair" on Friday May 4th in the CA from 7:00-10:00 pm.