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| Greetings!
Amy and I would like to wish all of you a Happy Christmas, Chanuka, Kwanza or whatever else you may be celebrating! It's been an amazing year for Creative Visions and we have so much more to come. Next year we are launching a revolution so stay tuned, not only for our end of year newsletter when we'll recap 2010, but also for some more exciting news to help ring in 2011.
Happy holidays to you and yours.
Thank you so much for being a part of our safari...
Kathy and Amy Eldon
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AMY AND KATHY INTERVIEW CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
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My Hero International Film Festival 
Kathy congratulates Director Jacob Seigal-Boettner and Directory of Photography Ian Wexler the 2010 recipients of the Dan Eldon Activist Award at My Hero International Film Festival on November 20th.
The brothers won for their short film "Pedal=Sight," which follows the life of a young Indian girl named Bharati, who is given a bicycle, allowing her to travel to school to seek an education and pursue her dreams.
The Dan Eldon Activist Award is presented to the short film that best addresses the theme of activism. "Pedal=Sight" highlights the work of a non-profit organization With My Own Wheels which works to provide bicycles to health workers, farmers, and students around the world in order enable them to pedal for the change they wish to see.
To watch the video, click here - My Hero/Pedal=Sight.
Every year filmmakers from around the world attend My Hero International Film Festival showcase films that "celebrate the best of humanity and empower young people to realize their potential to effect positive change in the world."
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NYC CAPP Summit
This fall, Creative Visions' friends Kathy and Jeremy Treat hosted a lively gathering at their lovely West Village, NYC home for Creative Activist Partner Program (CAPP) members. This "CAPP Summit," provided a unique opportunity for creative activists to share about their projects and goals, and exchange ideas and resources. CAPP projects represented at the summit included, This Woman's Work, An Inconvenient Youth, Neither Veil Nor the Four Walls and Ashaninka. Look out for exciting new developments from each of these creative activist projects and please visit their pages for more information about how you can get involved and support their work!
Also, keep watch out for Kathy Treat's riveting documentary, After The Fall: HIV Grows Up, which offers an intimate portrait of a special group of teen and young adult long-term survivors of the pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic that swept Romania in the late 80s and early 90s in Romania.
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CURA Safari Nights
On November 6, artists, musicians, and other friends of Creative Visions joined Kathy and Amy for a night of quality entertainment at "Safari Nights," a fundraiser for Cura Orpahange.
As guests poured into the legendary Henson Recording Studios, they were greeted with a classic ambiance of an African safari and welcomed by smiling images of the children from Cura, the inspiration for the event.
The lovely and talented Lucy Woodward, one of the masterminds behind "Safari Nights", kicked off the night by sharing a glimpse of her personal experience at Cura. Woodward was accompanied by the musical stylings of Jameson, Joe Sumner, and Nikka Costa. Each artist put on a show on show as epic as the studio it was performed in. The night was an overwhelming success not only for the funds raised through everyone's incredible generosity - but because many expressed interest in getting more involved by visiting the orphanage. Stay tuned - we are woking to make this a reality!
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| We are very proud to welcome Visions of Hope, mim-delo Project, and Freedom from Fear projects to our CAPP Community. |
| Visions of Hope
Visions of Hope is a public arts initiative which will take place in Harper, Liberia from January through May 2011. Harper is located in the most isolated and underdeveloped region of Liberia, where every third or fourth building is a burnt out structure that looks exactly as it did when the fourteen-year civil war finally ended in 2003.
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mim-delo Project
The mim'delo Project is a multidisciplinary event combined with an educational platform aiming to engage the world's youth in a participatory creative process to promote social change.
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| Freedom From Fear
Freedom From Fear is a groundbreaking feature documentary that chronicles Suu Kyi's story and the struggle for human rights, democracy, and freedom in Burma. The film takes viewers on a journey behind the scenes and into the lives of activists around the world working to promote change in Burma.
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