"Mass Nausea"

This is a PHOTOGRAPHY call to participate in an ongoing art series about chocolate.

Concept:
Portraits of 100 people "vomiting" M&M chocolate candies as a big impact visual protest of Mars Corporation's stake in Ivory Coast's conflict produced cocoa. The brightly colored, best selling, seemingly innocuous candy comes at the enormous expense of child slave labor and exploitative trading practices.

I'm looking for a wide range (in age, race, gender, physical characteristics) of adults. All that is required is that you:

1. chose Sat, Nov 10th in Oakland or Sun, Nov 11th in San Francisco,
2. choose a two hour time slot between 10a - 6pm
3. wear a plain white t-shirt and come spit out m&ms!

Please reply with your day and time slots to: aprilinafrica@yahoo.com
Put "M&M Photo Shoot" in the subject line. Please indicate your race, gender and approximate age.

What you will do:
Each person will be given plain m&m-like candies and asked to spit them out into a bucket. Feel free to express your "vomiting" as you please. These are individual portraits and you will be required to sign a model release.

What to wear:
Plain white t-shirt. No graphics or embroidery. The photo will be head and torso only.

Locations:
Saturday, November 10th: East Bay location TBD shortly. Mostly likely Oakland.
Time: 10am - 6pm

Sunday, November 11th: 1035 Market St, Downtown San Francisco, CA. Between the Powell St and Civic Center BART stations. Enter the building through Stevenson Alley from 7th Street. Come up to the second floor. Signs will be posted to help direct you. There is limited parking in the alley.
Time: 10am - 6pm

FYI
Below is some information about fair trade issues and the chocolate industry:

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/
http://ilrf.org/

Feel free to pass this on to friends. Thanks!
Happy Halloween,
April

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