Voice: A Celebration of Refugee Stories

October 12-28, 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, October 12, 2018  5:00-10:00
Film and discussion night: Friday, October 19 , 2018, 7:00-9:00

NeeNee Productions presents Sauti, a coming of age story about five courageous teen-aged girls who fled their home countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Sudan when they were very young to eventually live in Uganda’s Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, which they call home to this day. “Sauti” means voice in Swahili. The young women tell their stories in their own voices; personal drawings, poems, song, dance, and handicam diary interviews filmed by the girls themselves are incorporated into professionally shot footage. With tenacity, tenderness, and imagination, the girls approach their uncertain futures to envision new lives of their own choosing.