Ethiopian AIDS EDUCATION CIRCUS in Jamestown October 23, 2008

On October 23rd, at 7:30 PM, members of One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater of Awassa, Ethiopia will give a performance presentation in Jamestown

Eight years ago Meshu Tamrat and Tesfay Tekalu were performing gymnastics for their own survival in the dusty streets of Awassa Ethiopia. Now they lead one of the most famous youth programs in Ethiopia The Awassa Youth Campus. They have brought their One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater to hundreds of thousands of people in the markets of Ethiopia, worked for the UN in Sudanese refugee camps and in October will come Jamestown on as part of a USA fund-raising tour.

Arts Council and Reg Lenna Civic Center Director, David Schein has a personal connection with these young artists. In 2002 he went to Ethiopia to work with Tesfay and Meshu and other street children to found the Awassa AIDS Education Circus. Since then, he has returned five times to work with the Circus and has watched it grow from a rag-tag troupe to internationally renowned theater and youth campus.

The Reg Lenna Civic Center invites the public to a performance presentation by these young ETHIOPIAN artists who have made a huge difference in their own lives and in their own country.
The presentation, a benefit for One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater will be at the Reg Lenna Studio Theater, 116 E. Third Street at 7:30 PM on October 23rd, 2008.
Admission: Students $4.00, Adults $10.00, Group rates available.
Space is limited, reservations recommended at (716) 484-7070, the Reg Lenna Box Office or at reglenna.com.
For information about the Awassa Youth Campus or One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater or to interview the artists, contact David Schein at (716) 664-2465 ext 6 or at [email protected]

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