Please join Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) on Thursday August 30th for a JHR Film Night in Toronto!!! Please circulate to friends, family and colleagues!

 

Film: JHR is proud to screen “Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars”. One of the most celebrated documentaries of the past year, the film tells the remarkable story of an inspiring group of musicians who form a band while living in a West African refugee camp. Set against the backdrop of a brutal civil war, the film details the group's heroic stories of survival and their daily struggle to keep hope and music alive. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars is a unique tribute to the transcendent power of music and a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. (More information on the movie can be found below.)

 

Place: Thursday August 30^th, at the Innis College Town Hall Theatre.  The University of Toronto's Innis College Town Hall Theatre is located at the North West intersection of St. George & Sussex (one block south of Bloor & St. George), near the St. George Subway station.

 

Time: Doors open at 6:30 pm; show starts at 7:00 pm.

 

Cost: A donation of $10 is appreciated. JHR Members receive complementary access. To become a JHR Member, visit: http://www.jhr.ca/en/getin_becomemember.php (cut and paste the link into your browser). All tickets will be sold at the door.

 

Party Afterwards: Joins us after the film at The Duke of York Pub, just around the corner from Innis College Theater.

 

All Proceeds will help support JHR’s efforts to improve human rights in Africa.

 

More JHR Events: JHR holds events, designed to entertain and engage you, approximately every 2 months. Keep your eye out for more information.

 

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Best,

 

Ben Peterson

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Journalists for Human Rights

416-413-0240

www.jhr.ca

 

SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE ALL STARS

A Film by Zach Niles and Banker White

 

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars are a band of six Sierra Leonean musicians who came together to form a band while living in a refugee camp in Guinea. Many of their family and friends were murdered in the war, leaving each of them with physical and emotional scars that may never heal. Despite the unimaginable horrors of civil war, they were saved and brought hope and happiness to their fellow refugees through their music.

 

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars chronicles the band over three years, from Guinean refugee camps back to war-ravaged Sierra Leone, where they realize the dream of recording their first studio album. And so begins a musical phenomenon that is making the world hear the voices of West Africa’s refugees – through the film Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have been able to launch an international musical career, while drawing the accolades of Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Ice Cube (one of the executive producers of the film), and Joe Perry.

 

Through their unflinching spirit, their powerful stories of survival and their joyful music Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars celebrate the best that is in all of us. As violent conflicts multiply around the globe and the worldwide refugee crisis deepens, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars is a humanizing ode to all the innocent survivors of war whose brutal realities are often dismissed by surface mass media sound bytes.