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An art exhibition featuring the photography of INTHEFRAY Advisory Board member Stephen Shames, with proceeds going to the Ugandan educational nonprofit Concern for the Future.
By Stephen Shames
Sunday, 28 October 2007

Please join us at the Steven Kasher Gallery on Monday, November 12th, from 6 to 8 p.m., to benefit Ugandan orphans.

The Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 West 23rd Street, 2nd Floor, at 10th Avenue in Chelsea, New York City. The phone number is 212.966.3978.

On display will be Uganda: The Forgotten Children, limited edition 30x40 photos by Stephen Shames and drawings by Ugandan children depicting their lives.

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At the November 12th Benefit at Steven Kasher Gallery and online until the 12th:

• Limited-edition 30x40 and 20x24 inkjet prints by Stephen Shames will be on sale at half price.

• Everyone donating $250 or more will receive a free 8-1/2 x 11 inkjet print.

• Ugandan children's drawings will be available at discounted prices.

• One inkjet print will be raffled off.

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This benefit is organized by the Stephen Shames Foundation for Concern for the Future, a Ugandan run program that enrolls bright, motivated AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, and children from refugee camps in the top primary and secondary schools in Uganda, then sends them to university.

100% of the money raised will be used to educate orphans & children from refugee camps.

Donations are tax-deductible.

A generous grant from the Lynne Honickman Foundation made this exhibit, which will travel to The Gershman Y in Philadelphia in April, 2008, possible.

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