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The Anne Frank Project is happy to welcome Buffalo's refugee and immigrant population to the campus as part of AFP 2015. We are starting the festival with a gallery installation and workshop by Stitch Buffalo in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery, and closing the festival with In Search of a Nation, a film chronicling the journey from a refugee camp in Nepal to America.

Stitch Buffalo
Opening Presentation: Tuesday, September 15
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Czurles-Nelson Gallery (Upton Hall)

September 14–18
The Stitch Buffalove Heart Project
Czurles-Nelson Gallery
Learn basic embroidery skills and create a one-of-a-kind Stitch Buffalove heart pin. Each day from 10:00 a.m. to noon, the Stitch Buffalo Refugee Women’s Workshop will be on site for a totally unique cross-cultural experience. Each heart created will be featured in the gallery exhibit, allowing everyone to add his or her creative voice to this citywide movement of inclusion, diversity, and possibility.

In Search of a Nation
Thursday September 17
7:15–9:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union Social Hall
The documentary In Search of a Nation is the true story of an ethnic population of 120,000 Bhutanese refugees who have resettled in eight countries over the past seven years. They have lived more than two decades in exile in Nepal. Some are still struggling in the refugee camps in Nepal. Some are on their way to find permanent homes in the West. This film reflects the true identity of the population as the Bhutanese-Nepali-speaking ethnic group who has struggled for two decades for repatriation but failed several times. They finally opted for third-country resettlement, seeking permanent homes, identity, inclusion, opportunity, hopes and dreams, and above all, to feel human, with great respect and dignity. The film will be followed by a Reiki meditation for love and compassion, world peace, mindfulness, and oneness (15-20 minutes.).

AFP 2015 full schedule (PDF)