BRISTOL CINEMA HELPS IN HAITI
Extending the reach of its film program, Bristol based microplex, The Cube is travelling to Dominican
Republic to set up temporary social cinemas for refugee children affected by the Haiti earthquakes.
Organised through the Cube’s children’s wing, Nanoplex, The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT will screen films, while providing workshops and equipment for or Haitian children to make their own films. These will be screened and then exchanged with films made by children here in Bristol, through Nanoplex.
Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering temporary childcare facilities, this is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide a small opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion.
Children are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety grows through inaction, loneliness and boredom. The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT is working in dialogue with established NGOs, to contribute to quality of life through creating, sharing, forging friendships and connections.
Two Cube volunteers will be going out to the Dominican Republic to work with Haitian Refugees at the end of February 2010, and we are raising funds for screens, cameras, films, vaccines, flights, etc.
This is a big mission for a microplex, and we would love to have support. More info and how to donate HERE
Donations can also be given online HERE
