​Faces and Voices

We will be hosting the Faces and Voices Exhibit at the beginning of March. If you are able to help with take down of this on Wednesday March 14, please contact Robert McDonald at elderethone@gmail.com. 

​More about the exhibit:

Faces and Voices is a multimedia exhibit designed to educate the public and create empathy for the life experience of the homeless.  While we can go online to see the data on homelessness and poverty in America, rarely do we choose to speak to a homeless man, woman or youth to get to know them; instead, we may make up a story in our own minds as we drive by or cross the street to avoid contact.  How then can we understand that a homeless person is a sister or brother, mother or father, a human being like anyone else deserving of human dignity and respect?    

The exhibit includes veterans, men, women, families and youth telling their own stories in their own words. Through photographs, audio interviews, written transcripts and some life size pieces, the stories of our homeless neighbors come to life.  The exhibit is tailored to each location… at some sites we have mounted photos on the wall while at others we mount the photos with headphones and MP3 players on cots with accompanying camp stools and other items that give a personal feel to the overall experience.  

The exhibit will be at UUCGV February 28 through March 14. Please invite friends to come view this eye-opening exhibit.