John Dau to speak at Siena Sept. 20th

The Damietta Cross-Cultural Center will be celebrating Peace Week during the week of Sept 19 – 23. Our focus this year will be Refugees Awareness. I would like to inform you that the Center has invited John Dau, one of the lost boys from Sudan to be our guest speaker during Peace Week. John is one of the main characters in the movie "God Grew Tired of Us" which Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman took part in the production. The event will be on September 20th, 2011 at 7pm in the Sarazen Student Union, Room 241. This event is open to Public.

The movie has won a few awards including -
The Sundance Film Festival 2006 - "Grand Jury Prize: Documentary" and the "Audience Award" in the "Independent Film Competition: Documentary" category.
The Deauville Film Festival in France and the Galway Film Festival in Ireland – Best documentary.
The Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award by the International Documentary Association in 2007 - Christopher Dillon Quinn.

For more information about the film, please visit http://www.godgrewtiredofus.com/index.htm

Here is some info about Mr. John Dau. He was born in Sudan and moved to the Kukuma refugee camp in Kenya at a very young age in 1992. He has gone through war, violence, starvation and walked more than 1000 miles to escape from Sudan. John has moved to Syracuse, NY in 2001 with the assistance by the Catholic Charities International. He has shared with me that he didn't go to school until age 17. During his early years in Syracuse, he has worked for UPS, McDonald and other places up to 60 hours a week while going to Onondaga Community College to complete his Associate's Degree and BA at Syracuse University. He is a well-known speaker nationwide and a human right activist for the people of South Sudan. For more information, please go to http://johndaufoundation.org/johns-story