UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, June 28th - 1st Year Celebration of the Opening of The Lost Boys Center & Gallery, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
We invite you to help us celebrate the one year anniversary of The Lost Boys Center & Gallery, which opened in June of 2007. In addition to the beautiful paintings, sculptures, pottery, and masks available for purchase, you will also be treated to songs by the Lost Boys at 7:00 & 8:00 pm. There will also be door prizes and a cake to celebrate this momentus event. It's our way of thanking everyone who has supported and helped us this first year. We hope you will come and join us for a wonderful evening.
PAST EVENTS
Saturday, March 15th - LOST BOYS MARCH ART OPENING: 6pm - 9 pm
Saturday March 15th at 2PM - Calling all Lost Boys who want to Sing!Meeting for New Lost Boys Singing Group
Special Guest, Music Director Jane Kelley Watt
If you are interested in coming together with other Lost Boys who want to sing, please come to this meeting.
Please bring any drums or stringed instruments you may have. Call Lois for details 389-5182.
Thursday, February 14th - FREE PREDATORS TICKETS
RSVP right away for this week's Predator's game! Attention Lost Boys and Volunteers: Free tickets to the Predators' Hockey Games compliments of the Predators Foundation! We have 25 tickets for this Thursday's game so don't be shy! Sign up for tickets right away!
Thursday, February 14th
Nashville Predators vs. Chicago Blackhawks
6pm - Meet for Pizza (Lost Boys Center, 535 4th Ave. S)
7pm - Game Starts (Sommet Center, 501 Broadway)Also sign up for these games: Tues., Feb. 19, Thurs., Feb. 21 and Thurs., March 27
*RSVP: Call Chol 615-720-3919 or email info@thelostboysfoundation.org
with your name, # of tickets, date of game you will be attending.
Saturday, February 16th - LOST BOYS ART OPENING: 6pm - 9 pm - a Special Exhibition of the art of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Lost Boys Center and Gallery - 535 4th Ave. S - (615) 256-8302
The Gallery and Art Studio have been hopping in 2008. Please join us and check out all the great new work the Lost Boys are creating.
Volunteers needed at the Center this week!
The doors will be open from 1-7 Tuesday through Saturday this week. The guys have been making art like crazy so it is wild down there. Lots of great energy in the air and dust on the floor! We could use some help cleaning, organizing and getting all the new artwork hung and labeled this week. More news coming soon. . . Video Conferencing, Computer Classes are in the works!
The Lost Boys Center & Gallery
Corner of 4th Ave. S & Lea in downtown Nashville
615-256-8302The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedidcated to the reunification and living enhancement of the Lost Boys of Sudan who have made Nashville their home.
Saturday, December 1 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., Lost Boys Gallery Art Auction '07
Join us at the Lost Boys Center & Gallery at 535 4th Avenue South for a wonderful evening and auction that will include artists renowned nationally and internationally who have graciously donated their work to support the Lost Boys Foundation and Center in Nashville. Lost Boys from Sudan will be in attendance to discuss personal stories of their homeland and coming to America.
100% of the proceeds go to the assistance of the Lost Boys for their educational, artistic, cultural and basic needs, as well as for sustaining the gallery and learning center.
Food & wine provided by The Park Cafe, Whole Foods Market and Lipman Brothers.
For more info on the event, please click here!
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contact lbf.executivecommittee@gmail.orgJune 6, 2007, The Opening of the Lost Boys Center and Gallery
6:00 p.m. at The Lost Boys Center
535 4th Avenue SouthCome and tour our new center and gallery and be the first to experience the unique art created by local Lost Boys! Enjoy food and drink compliments of Park Café, The Copper Kettle, Mambu and Eastland Café. Please call (615) 256-8302 for more information.
May 9, 7 p.m., Lost Boys Foundation Meeting
Where: Plowhaus Artist Coop, 211 South 17th Street, East Nashville (Between Fatherland & Russell)
May 16, Revolution Day observed
May 21, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., Lost Boys Foundation Picnic & Soccer Game
Where: Edwin Warner Park, Shelter #6
Sat., April 29 & 30, 11am-5pm,
Build shed for kiln. Thanks to the volunteers!
Sun., April 30, Belmont College, Amphitheater (tower)
Candlelight Vigil and Rally for Darfur
In western Sudan in East Africa is a province called Darfur. Each day Darfurians are murdered by their own central government’s paid militia from Khartoum. The Khartoum Government has already killed 2.5 million people in Southern Sudan and now they turn on Darfur. If we don’t act quickly, the people of Darfur will no longer exist. A rally is being held in Washington D.C. on April 30th to raise awareness for the devastating situation in Darfur. We invite you to a candlelight vigil and rally here in Nashville to honor the thousands of men, women and children killed in Darfur, Sudan. Join us as we stand in solidarity with the Million Voices of Darfur across the country to help create a resolution to this violence. This event is sponsored by Amnesty International (Belmont Chapter), the Belmont Coalition Against Genocide, the Belmont University Office of Spiritual Development, Tennesseans Against Genocide, and the Nashville Peace and Justice Center. For more information on Darfur, please see www.savedarfur.org and www.millionvoicesfordarfur.org. Event contact: Daniel Schafer #460-637or schaferd@mail.belmont.edu
January 6 - April 16, 2006, Nashville, TN
The Frist Center's Conte Community Arts Gallery featured The Lost Boys of Sudan: A Journey of Hope which featured Nashville's own James Makuac and Bol Biar.
The civil war in Sudan between the Khartoum-based government in the north and African civilians in the south had been raging for years, but gained momentum in the late 1980s. James Makuac was only eleven years old, and his friend Bol Biar Aweng was six when they fled their village in southern Sudan under gunfire from northern troops. Too young to fight, but old enough to run, these children were led out of their village by elders, who hoped to save the lives of these young boys. James and Bol eventually joined over 26,000 other Sudanese boys who walked a thousand miles into Ethiopia, and then to Kenya, where they spent nine years in a U.N. refugee camp. On their journey, about half the children—named the Lost Boys of Sudan—died from disease, starvation, and attacks from wild animals and hostile soldiers. Eventually, charity organizations in America brought 3,600 Lost Boys to the United States. Of that number, about one hundred and twenty have settled in Nashville.
Lost Boys of Sudan features paintings by self-taught artists James Makuac and Bol Biar, who first began to chronicle their experience while living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
November 14, 2005, Nashville, TNVanderbilt to host The Lost Boys film screening
Sarratt Theatre
April 29, 2005, Nashville, TNCumberland Gallery to host Art Auction for The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville
Featured artists: Joan Almond, Shelby Lee Adams, Raine Bedsole, Kell Black, Susan Bryant, Barry Buxkamper, Bob Delavante, Jed Devine, Bob Durham, Donald Earley, Elizabeth Ernst, Jamie Gannon, Lanie Gannon, Lynn Gessaman, Jim Gibson, Libba Gillum, Mark Hosford, Sylvia Hyman, Monica Kuhn, Carrie McGee, Jim McGuire, Sally Mann, Marilyn Murphy, Ron Porter,Dan Ragland, Billy Renkl, Kit Reuther, Lisa Rivas, Rocky Schenck, Jack Spencer, Mark Tucker, Ann Wells and Andrew Winn.
The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville is pleased to announce a Benefit Art Auction hosted by Cumberland Gallery on April 29th. This is the second of a series of events planned to raise funds for the Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville. A group of photographers and visual artists have graciously donated their images to the action which will be set up in a silent auction format. All monies raised from this sale go directly to the Foundation.
Admission is free and open to the public. Music and refreshments will be provided for this festive event. The will be a minimal fee of $10 for client bid numbers. We will accept MV/VISA/American Express, cash, and checks during the event.
This Foundation, initially spearheaded by Jack Spencer, involves many dedicated individuals from the visual arts, film, and music community in Nashville. We are trying to raise awareness in the media and Nashville community about the plight of this group of gentle and talented individuals. While none of us is capable of changing the world single-handedly, this represents an opportunity to have a positive impact on a group of worthy young people in our own community.This event would not be possible without the generosity of these sponsors: Ambiance by Parker, Bud's Wine & Liquors, Clean Plate Club, Ellen Dale, The English Garden, Hanging Around, Nashville Wine and Spirits, The Produce Place and T & M Event Rentals.
February 22, 2005, Nashville, TN - Park Café Hosts Benefit
The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville will host a benefit on February 22 from 6:30-8:30 at the Park Café in Sylvan Park. The proceeds of the benefit will go to the Foundation, whose mission is the reunification and living enhancement of the Lost Boys of Sudan who have made Nashville their home. This is the first in a series of fundraising events planned for the Foundation.
The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville was recently created by photographer Jack Spencer and a small group of volunteers, after witnessing first hand the tragic circumstances many of the young men still face in the Nashville community. One such circumstance was the death of Pel Gai, a much beloved young man, who was the victim of a murder in a Nashville nightclub. Since there was no money to bury Pel, a group of the Lost Boys, along with Spencer and a few others, raised the $5,700 that was needed to bury him. It was this event that inspired Spencer to make a difference in the future of the Lost Boys of Nashville. "The irony of Pel's death confounds me, Spencer says." "They have seen such terror, grief, loss, sadness and horror only to come to our land of opportunity, and then senselessly murdered." Four of the boys sent to Nashville have been killed in the few years they have been here.
"There is no safety net for these young men. If they get sick or in trouble, there is no one to help them, says Spencer". Most of the young men hold down full time jobs, however, as refugees, they have had to rely on each other since many of their families have either perished or their whereabouts are unknown.
In 1987, a civil war drove an estimated 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in South Sudan. Most were six or seven years old. Wandering for years, they walked more than a thousand miles, half of them dying before reaching a Kenyan refugee camp. The survivors of this tragic exodus became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. There are approximately 150 Lost Boys residing in the Nashville area.
Tickets are $75 per person. Drinks and heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served. For more information or to make a reservation for the benefit, please contact info@thelostboysfoundation.org or call 615.473.5436.
535 4th Avenue South, - Nashville, TN 37210 - (615) 256-8302
donate@thelostboysfoundation.org
