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The 800,000 Project: Upcoming Events

April 6 - July 15, 2008 The 2008 COMMEMORATIVE EVENT
February 22 & 23, 2007
Bedford, PA		 Project Installation: Hosted by the Bedford United Methodist Church


Past Events:

September 22 - 24, 2006
Morristown, NJ		 800,000 booth and presentation at the 2006 Rwanda Convention
July 12 - 16, 2006
State College, PA		 800,000 booth at the 2006 Central PA Festival of the Arts in State College, PA. This was a great event gathering around 450 handprints and over $1000.
May 5-7, 2006
Altoona, PA		 Presentation and display at the Rotary International District 7350 Conference.
May 3 - 10, 2006
Zoller Gallery		 Exhibition of 800,000 at Zoller Gallery of Penn State University.
click here for the Exhibition Catalog
May 2, 2006 6-9pm
Zoller Gallery		 Opening reception at Zoller Gallery of Penn State University.
3/24 - 4/23 2006
Hub Gallery		 Friday, March 24 - April 23, 2006 Gallery, HUB-Robeson Center; The Visual Arts Exhibition is designed for those graduate students for whom creating studio work is a required part of their graduate degree program. All current candidates in the studio program Master of Fine Arts, for whom a studio component is a part of their required research, are eligible to submit work.
March 25, 2006
State College, PA		 Book-Binding event at Sozo. Three teams of 14 members will work from 10-5pm to cover the remaining 30 crates of books.
February 21,22,23, 2006
State High, State College PA. A day of presentations to Holly Foy's two craft's classes, and two workshop days of binding books. 5 crates of books were bound in 2 days!
January 12, 2006
Three presentations by Perry Babb, Yohani Kayinamura and Will Snyder at the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Salem High School, Virginia Beach, VA. Following the presentations will be a time viewing and participating the students' portion of the 800,000 exhibit. This event will celebrate the completion of their 250 books. Students from Social Studies, Art and other Academy programs will be in attendance. images.
January 6, 2006
Will Snyder presented background information of the project to one of Barb Benigni's art classes at Bedford High.
December 1, 2005
Presentation and workshop by Will Snyder at Valley High school, New Kensington, PA. Students from AP History and Art will join together to learn about the Rwandan Genocide, the 800,000, and then begin their part of the project. Hosting Instructors: Beth Ryce and Prissy Pakulski.
November 21, 2005
 Presentation and workshop with two seniors at Bedford High. Bedford, PA.
October 22, 2005
 Presentation at Pennsylvania Art Educators Association Conference hosted at the Penn Stater. State College, PA.
October 18 - 19, 2005
 Presentation and workshop with State High's crafts classes. State College, PA.
September 28, 2005
 Presentation to James Ritchey's art class at State High. State College, PA.
September 22, 2005
 Presentation and workshop to Visual Arts students at Salem High. Virginia Beach, VA.
September 20, 2005
 Presentation and workshop to art students at Bishop Guilfoyle. Altoona, PA.
September 13, 2005
 Presentation and workshop to art classes Grier School. Tyrone, PA.
July 23, 2005
 Fold-a-thon and exhibit of "[never]forget" by Abram Landes, an exhibit of photographs taken by Landes in Rwanda. The images depict the boys from the Umuryango Children's home. Bedford, PA.
June 3, 2005
 Presentation to Grace Prep School. State College, PA.
June 1, 2005
Presentation and Fold-a-thon to Valley High art students. New Kensington, PA.
April 23, 2005
Fold-a-Thon hosted by Kaitlin Griffin in Stephens Hall. University Park, PA.
March 18 - April 17, 2005
800,000 poster on display in Graduate student exhibition. HUB-Robeson Center. Penn State University, University Park, PA.
February 4, 2005
Fold-a-thon hosted by Travis Mavrich. State College, PA.
December 19, 2004
Fold-a-thon hosted by Antioch International Church. State College, PA.
November 17, 2004
800,000 event at the HUB, Penn State University. Co-sponsored by the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.
October 29, 2004
Fold-a-thon managed by Carla Stilson at Sozo. State College, PA.
October 22, 2004
Fold-a-thon managed by Carla Stilson at Sozo. State College, PA.
October 15, 2004
Fold-a-thon managed by Carla Stilson at Sozo. State College, PA.
October 8, 2004
Fold-a-thon managed by Will Snyder at Sozo. State College, PA.
October 1, 2004
Fold-a-thon managed by Will Snyder at Sozo. State College, PA.


Common Event Types:

Fold-a-thon - Community groups contribute to the project by hosting gatherings of people to fold the paper needed to create the 800,000 pages for the memorial books. Building these volumes by hand with the help of community members increases awareness and involvement with the project at the local level.

Book Exhibit - A book exhibit both displays the memorial books and offers opportunities for attendees to contribute to the 800,000 fund by paying $1 to place their handprint on a page of the books.

   
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