MESSAGE  We all deserve a home. 

INSIGHT  A home is the start of a better future

We’d like you to think about what a home represents – how it’s more than just four walls and a roof. 

What it represents to the millions of people living in slums, temporary accommodation or on the street is a future. A chance to break the cycle of homelessness, escape poverty, become a full member of society and live a ‘normal’ life free from the worries of where you’re going to sleep or what dangers you’ll face while sleeping rough. The reasons why someone is homeless or living in sub-standard accommodation are endless – poverty, bad luck, addiction, mental illness, eviction, a lack of affordable housing, relationship problems, domestic violence – but be they personal or societal, there’s one solution. A home. In 2013, with more people living in cities than ever before and the current economic crisis showing no signs of abating, it’s an issue that needs addressing more than ever. It remains an issue hard to define, harder to tackle and hard to address. It doesn’t matter why people are homeless, what matters is that they have the right to a home and the chance it represents to build a new life.

The Star and Shadow is proud to collaborate with the PosterForTomorrow Collective to host an exhibition of winning posters from this years global competition, open to all, to design a poster on the theme of A Home For Everyone. We are one node in a global network of galleries opening on the anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights to exhibit the work of these fantastically talented designers to support the UN universal declaration of a right to a home for every man, woman and child. The exhibition will continue until December 20th whenever the Cinema is open. 

http://www.posterfortomorrow.org/en/projects/home-for-everyone

http://www.posterfortomorrow.org/en/