Champions for Change Gala

The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s 2011 Champions for Change Gala & Auction will be held on November 17, 2011 at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge.  Please join us for an amazing evening celebrating extraordinary accomplishments in healing, advocacy, and leadership.

The evening will feature fine food & drink and silent & live auctions to support BARCC’s free services.

We will also present the annual awards to our 2011 Champion for Change,  Chico Colvard for his award winning film Family Affair, and our extraordinary volunteers. Cocktail hour and silent auction will begin at 6:00 pm.

You can also order tickets by phone at 617.492.8306, or by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

2011 Champion for Change: Chico Colvard

At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.
In his award wining film, Family Affair, thirty years later Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is a personal film that’s as uncompromising, raw, and cathartic as any in the history of the medium. Driving the story forward is Colvard’s sensitive probing of a complex dynamic: the way his three sisters survived severe childhood abuse by their father and, as adults, manage to muster loyalty to him. The Boston Globe declared Family Affair  “one of the most psychologically complex movies ever made about either racial identity or abuse of any kind”.

Watch the movie trailer

Sponsorship

The success of the Gala depends on the support of corporate and individual sponsors. Thank you to the corporations and individuals who have already signed up to be Gala 2011 Sponsors. To find out how you can become a sponsor, please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call her at 617.492.8306.

Auction

We are now accepting auction item donations. To find out more please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call her at 617.492.8306.

 

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