Film and Panel Discussion
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
A film by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
| When: | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 |
| Time: | 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
| Where: | Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Katharine Lower Conference Room, 300 Airdale Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 |
| RSVP: | 610-520-2605 or email probinson@brynmawr.edu |
| Film and Panel Discussion is FREE and open to the public. | |
| CEu's: | 2 continuing education units available-Processing Fee of $15.00 |
The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life.
In Born into Brothels, directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world.
The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force.
Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit.
Film starts at 6:30 p.m. followed by a Panel Discussion lead by Janet Shapiro, PhD, Director of the Center for Child and Family Well-being at GSSWSR.
A light supper will be provided.
Two continuing education credits associated to this lecture. CEU forms will be made available at the registration table and a ceu processing fee of $15.00 collected the day of the event.
Hosted by The Center for Child and Family Well-being at
Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research
Special thanks to The G. Mildred and A. Foster Scott Foundation for providing funding for this Lecture Series and bringing a diverse range of speakers to the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.