Khunum Productions: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KHUNUM PRODUCTIONS

is currently at the beginning stages of recognizing itself as a platform for creative anthropology. Essentially we are storytellers. Be it through arts education, personal narrative, experimental theatre or grand scale spectacle, we are committed to the arts of enchantment. We explore questions of and celebrate the magic of the living soul animated through human experience. Khunum Productions aims to penetrate and transform the human heart with beauty based on the blueprint of creation.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BROOKLYN EDUCATOR & AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR OPENS LIVE ART GALLERY

NEW YORK CITY, February 25, 2010--Nehprii Amenii, author and illustrator of "Memories of the Little Elephant," (www.NehpriiAmenii.com) an all ages picture book that has initiated a movement to retell the history of African people, announces the opening of her very own MLE Art Gallery & Community Space based upon the book.

Located in State Renaissance Court at 200 Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn, MLE Art Gallery & Community Space is made possible by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s YOUR ART HERE program, granting selected artists gallery space in un-leased commercial property. Nehprii Amenii, An educator at Harlem’s Future Leaders Institute since 2007, has brought her debut title, self- illustrated, independently published and distributed work to a live-working gallery allowing the community to view and join in on the process of the turning the book into pop-up window experience.

"I’ve always been inspired by bringing art directly to the people—the power of parades and public art. It’s a gentle way of imposing meaning directly onto the minds of all who ‘by chance’ pass by. And who doesn’t love the imaginative window displays of Bloomingdale's and Sak's?" says Amenii, "But, what I’m most grateful for is the opportunity to share the creative process with the community to witness art as healing, even before a finished product…to witness enthusiastic community join in, totally unexpected."

MLE Art Gallery & Community Space is fully alive, with several scheduled interactive arts & crafts activities, school group tours, dialogues, workshops, and performances for the entire family, all starting off with a production by Naima Penniman paying homage to Haiti in view of its recent tragedy, which happens to be where "Memories of the Little Elephant" was first released in 2008. All events are scheduled to last through March 14. After which the exhibit will be immediately available for travel and installation.

For more information, contact Nehprii Amenii at the MLE ART Gallery & CommunitySpace at 718-924-8779, or at KhunumProductions@gmail.com.