Attention Homes Benefit Auction Coming May 16th, 2015!

It’s All About the Shoes. Student Photographer: Chris. 2014

It is called “Le Cirque Magnifique” or, more formally, the 8th Annual Kaleidoscope Gala, and the proceeds will go to benefit Attention Homes, a Boulder non-profit dedicated to helping local homeless youth. (You would be sadly surprised at how many there are, even in this relatively affluent area.) Just hoist your fanny perpendicular and head on over to the University of Colorado’s Glenn Miller Ballroom (University Memorial Center) on May 16, fork over for a ticket, and peruse the many items up for auction. The cause is great.

Why do I mention it? Well, for somewhere around a year now Dana Bove, of Photography for a Change fame, has organized a weekly photography “class” for these kids at one of the in-town outreach centers. He was initially working with another Boulder photographer, Chris Carruth, then I joined the effort shortly thereafter.

The connection with the May 16 auction is this: There will be framed and matted work available for purchase–not our work, but work done by the kids themselves. It has been quite a refreshing learning experience for me to see how these young people see the world–each with a unique vision that often translates into some instinctively wonderful photographic images (as in the primo example above by a constantly cheerful young man named Chris).

So come on out to the grand gala and see for yourself what these budding visual artists have been up to–and brighten the future of these kids a bit by supporting Attention Homes!