Young & Fearless: Journeys for a Lifetime Art Show

Oct. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- Halifax—Local photographer Shari Tucker will be opening a new art exhibit as part of this year’s Photopolis festival on Saturday October 15. Young & Fearless: Journeys for a Lifetime celebrates the work of Coalition for Kids International through photography. The opening event features remarks by Shari Tucker as well as travel talks on Poland and Germany, and a upcoming group photo-adventure travel trip called Peru: Through the Lens.

In March 2011 Shari Tucker captured the journey of five Canadian teens travelling to Poland on a 12-day journey to grant wishes to terminally ill children with The Coalition for Kids International. Immersed in the culture and history of Germany and Poland, these teenagers gained a new respect for life, a new outlook on their own situations and learned to care, share and transform.

“The teens I travelled to Poland with came back different people,” says Tucker. “When you travel half way around the world to visit a dying child whose only wish is to have a laptop, camera or video games, you can’t help but come back changed. The Canadian teenagers realize pretty quickly how lucky they are when something that is considered a birthday present here is a dying wish in Poland.”

Shari Tucker is widely known as the photographer behind Young & Fearless: Inspirations of Cancer Survivors, which included three art exhibits in Nova Scotia and the publication of her first book. Her work has also been included in several national exhibitions with Photosensitive, including 10 pieces in Cancer Connections, one in TIEd Together and one in The Energy Project. All voluntary projects working to ‘harness the power of the camera to achieve social justice’.

Coalition for Kids International, based in Halifax, is a not-for-profit organization that provides life-changing experiences for youth. The Coalition’s initiatives have made an immediate impact on the lives of many and it commits its resources to empower North American teens and youth to personally fulfill the fantasies and dreams of terminally-ill children facing circumstances beyond imagination, in their homes and in hospitals throughout Poland, on 12 day “Journeys for a Lifetime”.


Young & Fearless: Journeys for a Lifetime Art Show

OCTOBER 15 – 27
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 15, 6-10pm
Location: The Adventure Travel Company, 5552 Kaye Street, Halifax
7:00pm Artist Talk (Shari Tucker)
7:30pm Peru: Through the Lens
8:00pm Travel Talk: Poland & Germany

For more information:
902.431.8182 | info@sharitucker.com
http://www.sharitucker.com

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