Dance Rehearsal for HFC Anniversary

Tomor­row, Hope for Chil­dren (HFC), an orga­ni­za­tion here in Addis Ababa that shel­ters and helps edu­cate chil­dren orphaned by the AIDS epi­demic, will be cel­e­brat­ing its 9th anniver­sary.  The mem­bers of Sud­den Flow­ers, the film col­lec­tive I’m work­ing with, have all ben­e­fited from HFC’s char­i­ta­ble work.  They are plan­ning a dance per­for­mance and pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion for the cel­e­bra­tion.  I had a lot of fun sit­ting in on their rehearsals over the past few weeks as they hashed out the rou­tine.  (They did their best to teach me some parts.  There’s video of that, but my inter­net con­nec­tion isn’t good enough to upload it).  Yes­ter­day, Yam­rot and I hung the pho­tographs out­side HFC’s offices.