In 2007, photographer Felice Willat visited Burma and fell in love with the country and its people. The resulting photographs inspired her new book, "The Quiet Between - Song Of Burma".
Making one of a kind gourds since 1991, Karen Saviskas has had her work featured in galleries across the US and Canada. In 1994, one of her pieces was chosen to decorate the White House Christmas tree and is now part of the permanent gourd collection of The Smithsonian Institution.
Please join us for this very special event
ALMS-"Offerings"
Featuring Burma images from photographer Felice Willat
and Gourds from Karen Saviskas
Artist Reception and Book Signing
Sunday April 19, 2009
4:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday April 7th - Sunday May 3rd
Topanga Canyon Gallery
120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd. #109 Pine Tree Circle
Topanga, CA 90290 310 455-7909
www.topangacanyonga llery.com
www.felwil.zenfolio .com
felicewill@charter. net
rkms1@msn.com
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday
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About Me and About this Website
I Vow to help as much as I can to bring Freedom to Burma. But, since I cannot do this alone, I'd like to share and update what is going on in the country so that you can HELP to Free Burma as well.
Free Burma Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Where is Burma?
What is Burma?
Burma is the second largest country in Southeast Asia and is located to the east of India and Bangladesh, to the southwest of China and to the west of Laos and Thailand. The country has a population of nearly 55 million. Burma was once the richest country in Asia and is now considered one of the poorest.
Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. It spends half its budget on the military while the population goes without access to proper health care, education and food.
Today Burma is a country ruled by fear. The regime ruthlessly persecutes human rights and democracy activists, imprisoning at least 2100 political prisoners, many of whom are routinely tortured. There is widespread use of forced labor.
Burma has more child soldiers than any other country in the world with children as young as 11 snatched by soldiers on their way home from school and forced to join the army. One in ten babies die before their fifth birthday. In Eastern Burma, the regime is waging a war of ethnic cleansing and using rape as a weapon of war against ethnic women and children. More than 3,300 villages have been destroyed.
Elections were held in 1990, and the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, won 82% of seats in parliament. The regime refused to hand over power, and instead unleashed a new wave of oppression.
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- Burma Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Climbs Higher in Time M...
- Tea leaves from Myanmar recalled
- Thai Protests Build on Economic Crisis
- Skeptics Question Burma’s Internet Slowdown
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi News on Chinese TV
- Changes Proposed on US Economic Sanctions
- Breaking News: UN Says Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Detent...
- US Disappointed by Suu Kyi's Detention
- Army Capitalists: The Junta’s Wealth
- US Still Working on New Burma Policy
- Burma is an International issue: China
- Homeless Cyclone Survivors Demonstrate
- Annual Burma Human Rights Day Benefit
- Featuring Burma images from photographer
- Thee Lay Thee Farewell
- Obama, Indonesian President Discuss Burma
- Free Burma's Political Prisoners Now
- Political Prisoners Doubled in Two Years, Say Acti...
- Signatures Wanted to Free Political Prisoners
- Burmese General, Than Shwe’s New Pagoda Hides More...
- Sleepless in Mae Sot
- Burmese Junta Rejects US Human Rights and Narcotic...
- Invitation to Bay Area Burmese (Myanmar) Community...
- Asean Leaders Look to UN to Help Burma
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- Burma: It can't wait by Kim Kardashian-Day 24
- Burma: It can't wait by Will Ferrell-Day 1
- Burma: It can't wait by Jim Carrey
- Burma: It can't wait by Sylvester Stallone-Day 21
- Burma: It can't wait by Steven Seagal Day 18
- Burma: It can't wait by Eva Longoria Parker- Day 16
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