"Choosing to Participate" Exhibit Open to the Public at the Boston Public Library

January 30^th - May 18^th 2008

WHAT:

Opening of the "Choosing to Participate" exhibit, a provocative, interactive exhibit that tackles issues such as violence, racism and hate crimes while profiling the compelling stories of individuals and communities who have confronted these challenges and had to make choices.

WHEN:

Wednesday, January 30th
1:00 p.m. - Exhibit Viewing w/ Mayor Thomas M. Menino and students from Fenway High School who will accompany the mayor as he tours the exhibit *PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

WHERE:

Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
McKim Building - Changing Exhibits Room

WHO:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino; Margot Stern Strom, founder and executive director of Facing History and Ourselves; students from Fenway High School.

Highlights:

• Upstanders: Portraits of Courage, a photographic exhibit highlighting 25 Greater Boston-area individuals and groups who were nominated for the ways they created change in their communities.
• pARTicipation powerful works of art that New England students created, showing their struggles, hopes and burgeoning sense of themselves as agents of change.
• Everyone Has a Story depicts challenges faced by a young Cambodian refugee and his classmates and neighbors in his New Hampshire community as he struggled to build a new life in the U.S.