Help eighteen NYC public high school students go to Mozambique, where they will:
• Create a multimedia arts installation with eighteen Mozambican art students • Experience Mozambique's rich history and • View artist's life work against the backdrop of Mozambique's wars and dramatic reconstruction • Use varied media to "draw conclusions" about Mozambique, the legacy of the Cold War, and themselves • Mount their work at the Associação Núcleo de Arte in Maputo, and, we hope, at the UN headquarters in New York City | In preparation, all participating Beacon students will:
• Raise money to cover airfare, on-the-ground expenses, and honoraria for artist guides in New York City and Maputo • Participate in a history seminar focused on Third World "hot zones" of the late Cold War • Write and orally defend a research paper on a topic central to the seminar • Create art in weekly workshops led by NYC artists working in a variety of media • Study Portuguese while watching films and reading novels set in Mozambique |