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Health & Fitness

Woodbury Hosts "An Evening with Jessica Hilltout"

"An Evening with Jessica Hilltout"
Old Town Hall 5/30/14 at 6pm

Woodbury Parks and Recreation and Futbol Friends International are proud and excited to announce "An Evening with Jessica Hilltout"   Jessica will offer our community a heartfelt presentation of her experiences traveling and photographing the people of Central Asia and Africa.  

Jessica is best known for her book entitled AMEN, a photographic essay which tells the story of the love of the game of soccer and the people of the African nation.  Her images alone speak volumes, but Jessica comes to us and offers her personal perspective on the beauty and understanding her photographs represent.

This if for ages 14 and up as it is a thought provoking evening!

Voluntary donations will be accepted and proceeds will be split between the Woodbury Food Bank and Futbol Friends International 
(FFI is a local non profit dedicated to helping kids to help other kids all over the world through the one language they share..... Soccer.  www.ffiusa.org)

This is a unique opportunity for Woodbury to host such a celebrated and internationally renowned speaker (National Geographic, New York Times) to share her experience and to give people food for thought, create subjects for discussion and perhaps some philosophising.

BIOGRAPHY:

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Jessica was born in Belgium, 1977. She's been travelling ever since. Her parents exposed her to the world and this sparked her fascination with images.   As a young woman, she attended Art College in Blackpool, England and later worked briefly (and unhappily) in commercial photography.   In 2002 she traveled through Central Asia and Africa photographing the seemingly unimportant, the apparently hidden and finding beauty in both.   Jessica's work is proof positive that beauty can be found anywhere, especially in those unique imperfections that mark our individuality.   Her work takes us far away from glossy advertising, luxury shops and soulless chain stores to a place where the superfluous and superficial are stripped away and where fundamental truths shine through.

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