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THE HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT is a voluntary project travelling from the UK to the Dominican Republic to set up a temporary social cinema for children affected by the Haiti earthquakes.
The Haiti Kids Kino Project is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide an opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion to a people and a place devastated by natural disaster. The Cube Cinema, a volunteer-run organisation in Bristol is sending it’s first team of volunteers over to the Dominican Republic at the end of February. Offering a mixture of screenings and workshops for the Haitian children, the project will be a cultural exchange between children in Haiti and the UK.
Haitian children are experiencing damage and despair, and further anxiety can grow through inaction, loneliness, isolation and boredom. Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering a temporary respite, the Haiti Kids Kino Project will contribute to quality of life through creating, sharing, reflecting, forging friendships and connections.
Esther May Campbell, BAFTA award winning director and Cube volunteer says:
“The Cube has always had a fantastically, hands on approach to things. As a provider of grass roots cultural exchange, this is the most direct humanitarian response it can offer. When children, who have suffered these kind of traumas have nothing to do, desperation and anxiety levels shoot through the roof. The Cube has skills, passion and networks, enabling us to create a mobile cinema for young people, intending to offer community, hope and distraction.”
This is intended to be a long term project that becomes a Haitian led and self sufficient initiative. The Cube project is raising funds to equip them with screens, cameras and films, vaccines and to cover travel costs.
‘NANOPLEKS AK KIB SINEMA AP PREZANTE PWOJÈ KINO SINEMA POU TIMOUN AYITI’
The Haiti Kids Kino Project are looking for donations of equipment and funding.
To donate the old fashioned way, please send cheques made out to
”Cube Cinema Ltd” The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT, c/o The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol BS2 8NQ
For more information on other ways to donate please visit: http://www.cubecinema.com/haiti
- Or donate this way buy a ticket for The HAITI SCREENINGS:
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti
If you can’t make it to Haiti yourself (!), don’t worry because your seat will go to a young Haitian person, and the price of a ticket, goes to raising funds for The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT. Please buy generously – it’s a great way to donate.
If you want to make a greater donation, please get in touch directly haitikidskino@cubecinema.com
Visit www.cubecinema.com/haiti for more information on THE HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT, The Cube and HOW TO DONATE.
Press enquiries to: Abigail Stuart-Menteth at Damson PR
m: 07855 526 5550
e: abigail@damsonpr.com