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› What: Opening reception for “Seeds of Hope” art exhibition and “The Babushkas of Chernobyl” documentary screening; art exhibition continues through April 28.› When: Reception at 5-7 p.m. Friday; the documentary will be shown in its entirety at 4 p.m. and run during the reception.› Where: Gallery 5 at Mountain Arts Community Center, 809 Kentucky Ave., Signal Mountain.› Admission: Free; donations appreciated to offset cost of the film.› Phone: 423-886-1959.› Websites: www.signalmacc.org, http://chernobylchildrensprogramofgreaterchattanooga.wordpress.com.
Almost 31 years since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, an art exhibition and documentary screening Friday on Signal Mountain will showcase flickers of life from the disaster zone.
The exhibition, titled “Seeds of Hope,” will offer art created by youth ages 9-17 from the Republican College of Art in Minsk, Belarus. The works will be on display starting Friday through April 28 at Gallery 5 at the Mountain Arts Community Center.
Center director Barb Storm says all of the works reflect the young artists’ Eastern European ethnicity in media that include watercolor, tempera, oil, batik, pen-and-ink and pastels. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale will be used for “caring for and enriching the lives of these children.”
The show is made possible through the Chernobyl Children’s Program of Greater Chattanooga, which formed in 1992, six years after the April 26, 1986, disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now Ukraine.