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Vision Statement

We envision a forum for open discussion of public issues, international relations, the arts and sciences to realize our full potential as a World School.

To this end, we will work to organize a series of events that fosters stimulating dialogue of topical issues and explores the connections between Palmer High School and its broader world community.

The Photography of Hélène Tremblay

Sunday, April 13, 2008
7:00pm Palmer's New Commons

Please join Palmer High School in welcoming French-Canadian photo journalist Ms. Hélène Tremblay who will share her photographs and stories as a part of the International Baccalaureate community theme: Our Shared Humanity. Following Hélène’s presentation we will have an opportunity for a question/answer session and to have facilitated dialogue centered on the guiding question: “What might it mean for someone to develop a sense of “shared humanity”?

Hélène is best known for her life work of comparative study of families in cultures around the world. Hélène has lived with and engaged in “statistically average” family life in 116 countries over the past 20 years.

“With the art of a storyteller and like an orchestra master, she brings us to families from one continent to another and with emotion and incredible impact she traces an unforgettable portrait of those she met and with whom we share the planet. She tells of how they changed her life by changing her way of viewing the world. She shares her experience using beautiful pictures to depict funny and revealing anecdotes integrating themes such as: the basic needs human beings share, love, the environment, violence, peace and tells how the similarities in the essential goals, needs, and roles of families around the world provide a basis for understanding and embracing our differences.”

Please visit Hélène’s website for additional information.

Recent International Exhibitions of Hélène Tremblay’s Work

Exhibitions at the United Nation’s secretariat in New York (1988 and 1990)

Exhibitions (portable) France and Germany (1994-International Year of the Family)

Exhibition at the launching of the Alliance for a New Humanity in Puerto Rico , 2003

Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates and in Jordan in the context of “La Semaine de la Francophonie”, March 2005

15 pictures of 4"x 8" are exposed at the Meridian 74, 181 Brière in St-Jerome , Quebec

Exhibition commemorating the opening for the Cultural Foundation of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2006

All are welcome!

Please RSVP to Carolyn Derr, derrcf@d11.org or Dave Sawtelle, sawteda@d11.org

Springs Chautauqua at Palmer High School

Vision Statement