SomArts Bay Gallery
in collaboration with the
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House

Presents:

My Life in the Sunshine:
This is My Community

Dates: February 3rd - 24th, 2005
Reception: Thursday February 3rd, 5:30 - 7:30
Performance: Valentines Day February 14th
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Dance Party: February 24th, 6:00 - 10:00 pm

Live Webcast February 3rd 6:00 - 7:00pm
By
Nifae Tinoifili, Felisha Walker & Adam Bailey

Table to make Valentines available
Open to Public

SomArts Bay Gallery, in collaboration with the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, will be presenting "My Life in the Sunshine: This is My Community" during the month of February 2005.  This exhibition will celebrate the children of the Neighborhood House community, featuring their self-portraits, photos, drawings, "geneograms" (collages of their daily life), as well as their music and performances.  The participants will be the kids who attend the after school programs, as well as students from the surrounding schools.

This exhibition is scheduled to coincide with Valentines Day, when there will be a special event for the kids at SomArts.  In general, these are children at risk, whose lives are full of violence and fear, and this exhibition is meant to act as an opposing force, to help them explore the good parts of their lives, to help increase the self-esteem, and to show the larger community of San Francisco what they are capable of.