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Hear Our Voice Kenya is an innovative performing arts project, launched in 2008 in association with Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC). It provides an opportunity for those who have experienced abuse, neglect and social exclusion through being on the streets to make their voices heard, share their experiences and prevent others from suffering as they have.

Days of KINGS is written and directed by Chris Rhys Howarth, director of HOV Kenya. Chris will be introducing the film and talking about the work of HOV Kenya. Eleanor Harrison, director of AfCiC will also be there to talk about AfCiC's partnership with the project.

Venue: Unicorn Theatre is a brilliant and quirky place if you have not been before. Parking is available off of Abbey Close (to the back of the theatre), Abingdon, Oxon

Date: 8th September 2009

Take seats at 8pm for introduction to the film.
Refreshments will be available.


SYNOPSIS
The film follows the different fortunes of two street boys - George and Newton. After becoming friends the lives of the two boys take very different paths when George is brutally beaten on the streets by an older boy and saved by a theatre group for street boys. As the boys lives grow further apart their friendship continues to pull them back together with George fighting to save Newton from the streets before its too late. The film explores the challenges and realities of life on the streets. It shows the close bonds street boys form as they face tragedy and adversity and demonstrates the importance of giving street boys a chance to change their lives. It is a fictional story but based upon the real experiences that street boys across Kenya go through.

Significantly, all the boys in the film are former street or acutely vulnerable children who have been supported and rehabilitated through the work of AfCiC and Hear Our Voice Kenya. They show incredible talent and capabilities as performers and bring a raw reality to the film when you understand these boys have faced such circumstances in their real lives. They demonstrate maturity and confidence and show how their lives and ambitions have been changed through the work of AfCiC and Hear Our Voice.

Tickets £5 per person and are available to book by phone 01235 539319 or email info@actionchildren.org