Screening: A Gift for The Village
Venue: Bonnie Auditorium, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
Screening of the award winning documentary "A Gift for The Village". The screening is free and open to the public.

In June of 2007, seven friends traveled from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia to Jomsom village in the Mustang district of western Nepal to deliver a painting by artist Jane Lillian Vance about Amchi Tsampa Ngawang Lama, a Tibetan amchi-lama-doctor and mind-healer. Jane Vance is the first woman and first westerner granted permission to produce such a piece.

A Gift for the Village is the culmination of years of friendship and collaboration between this prominent Buddhist lama and an American painter and teacher. In the film, a large oil painting – titled Amchi -- is removed from its stretchers and escorted across the globe and is offered as a gift to a village in the western Himalayan mountains of Nepal. The team was welcomed with an elaborate festival -- sanctioned by the Dalai Lama -- celebrating the artist, the work and the man it honors. A Gift for the Village documents the remarkable story of their trip -- offering unprecedented access to a vanishing tradition.

For more information, visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Gift-for-The-Village/183800545072 or http://www.agiftforthevillage.com/our_project.html

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