Join us for an exhibit of remarkable travel journals and images of war and peace photographed by journalist Dan Eldon, who celebrated his life and death at age 22 as a creative activist, and whose art became a means of positive social change. Opening reception on Friday, February 27, from 6 pm to 9 pm. A film festival and panel discussion with producers, directors, actors, and journalists on creative activism will also be held. Please see the SMC Student Creative Activist Film Festival listing in Special Events for details.

The exhibition, featuring one of Dan’s journals, will be opened by Producer/Director Tom Shadyac, Dan’s mother Kathy Eldon and sister, Amy Eldon Turteltaub.

The traveling exhibit of Dan Eldon’s work, JOURNEY: Images of War/Celebrations of Peace, is a powerful, affecting tribute to a young artist and his rich, brief life. Containing photographs from Dan’s work in Somalia with the Reuters News Agency, large reproductions of his collages, and a variety of art supplies and personal belongings, the exhibit has inspired audiences in six countries.

Dan Eldon was the son of a British father and American mother, who grew up in Kenya, and attended four colleges in England and the US, including the Pasadena Community College and UCLA. At the age of 21, he was among a small cadre of journalists who alerted the world to a major famine in Somalia. As many as 1,000 people a day were starving to death when Newsweek, Time, and many international daily newspapers began to pick up Dan’s images in 1992, triggering an international mission to deliver aid to Somalia. One year later, Dan and three colleagues were killed by an angry mob in the aftermath of a tragic bombing raid by UN troops that killed or wounded more than 100 Somalis.

Although more than a decade has passed since his death, Eldon’s images remain fresh and relevant, as do Eldon’s collages—sometimes meditative, sometimes joyful, often humorous—created in journals which he began keeping at age 15 and maintained until his death. Together with his compelling photographs, they are an inspiring record of what it means to grow up in a complex world with one’s eyes and ears wide open.

www.DanEldon.org

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SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel

Join us for an evening of SMC student films and a lively panel discussion on creative activism with producers, directors, actors, and journalists. The panel will be led by Kathy Eldon, Director of the Creative Visions Foundation (www.creativevisions.org) and mother of photojournalist Dan Eldon, killed while covering the conflict in Mogadishu. An award will be presented for the best student film. Dan Eldon’s journals and photographs are on exhibit through March 21 at the adjacent SMC Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery. Art gallery will be open before the film festival.

Fri, March 13 • 7pm=2 0 • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center

Barrett Art Gallery
SMC’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery is located at the SMC Performing Arts Center (Santa Monica Blvd. & 11th St., Santa Monica). For information and gallery hours, please call (310) 434-3434 or (310) 434-8204, or visit our gallery website (www.smcbarrettgallery.com). Exhibits and opening receptions are free.

Dan Eldon: Traveling Exhibit
Tues, February 17 – Sat, March 21
Join us for an exhibit of remarkable travel journals and images of war and peace photographed by journalist Dan Eldon, who celebrated his life and death at 22 as a creative activist and whose art became a means of positive social change. Opening reception on Friday, February 27, from 6 pm to 9 pm. A film festival and panel discussion with producers, directors, actors, and journalists on creative activism will also be held. Please see the SMC Stu dent Creative Activist Film Festival listing in Special Events for details.

SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel (See listing in Special Events for details)
Fri, March 13 • 7pm • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center

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BBC Piece on Dan Eldon’s Manhattan Exhibition
BBC world produced this piece the second week of Dan’s images and art at their permanent home in NYC’s SoHo at the Candela/Decker Gallery.

Dan Eldon: The Art of Life

www.DanEldon.org

Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery

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