I think if we can see photographs of them collectively, it will make an impression.” I think we can all personally think of someone polite to us or an act of kindness that occurs that may have just slipped by our minds at first. “I want Stocktonians to visualize that we have so many acts of kindness during the day. 22, they will also be displayed at the week-ending gala at the Port of Stockton’s Lindley House, where they will be used as auction items. Some details have been solidly worked out. Tim Ulmer of UlmerPhoto in Stockton has agreed to print the photos. A maximum of 3 images per person are allowed.

The time frame to enter is from May 1 to July 31 of 2023. You can access an entry form at the SSCA’s website ( ). The rest will be virtually shown (in a slide show) then. We want to have at least 20 photographs in the exhibit. “We’re looking for a good amount of photos, but we don’t know how many we’ll get. Lowery is still working out the details and soliciting ideas for the project. Lowery is planning for the show to coincide with the week-long 25th-anniversary celebration of Parma’s partnership with Stockton in September. We want this just to be an exchange of expression.” It also helps express our sister city friendship that photographs should speak for themselves. “The idea is for the Parma sister city people also to submit acts of kindness that they photograph, again without words. “The desire is for our community to contribute photographs of acts of kindness without any words,” says Lowery. The theme is ‘Kindness Can Change The World…And It Costs Nothing.’ They want people to send images of acts of kindness from their respective cities.

On a visit to Parma last year, Lowery and her Italian counterparts devised an idea to have a joint photography exhibit of pictures taken by each city’s residents.

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