Invitation for Fundraising Event by Karen Community Association (Sheffield)

We the Karen Community Association (KCA) would like to invite you all to a fund-raising event on 20th March 2010.

We the KCA-UK members are very concerned about our people. We also recently received the news about increased attacks taking place in Eastern Burma Karen State. Over 70 houses and two schools have been burnt down and thousands of civilians displaced.

Because we understand these situations first hand, we would like to help the Karen people of Burma by holding a fundraising event. From the funds we raise, 80% will go straight to helping the displaced inside Burma and 20% will help to fund our KCA activities.

The event programme will include a welcome from our community leader as well as other speakers including the Burma Campaign UK member and performances from our youth and children. Then a very delicious Karen and Burmese food buffet will be available (vegetarians and Halal food will be served).

Date:
20-03-2010 (Saturday)
Time:
12:00 - onwards
Venue:
Cemetery Road Baptist Church, 11 Napier Street, Sheffield S11 8HA

The fee for each person is £10; soft-drinks and coffee are free.

Please let us know if you are able to join us (with any special dietary requirements) by the 18th March.

Please contact for more information:

Mr Win Cho Toe
Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 

Mrs Htoo Ku Hsar Say
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Screening of ‘Burma VJ’

Date:
20-03-2010 (Saturday)
Time:
12.30pm
Venue:
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL

Burma VJ

Burma VJ (12A)
Directed by Anders Østergaard
Norway/Sweden/Denmark, 2009, 84m subtitles

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to Burma’s video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Armed with small handycams they make their undercover reportages, smuggle the material out of the country, have it broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media.


Oscar nomation for Best Documentary Feature

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Invitation for Musical Bridge

An evening of classical music inspired by Burma

Date: 15-05-2010 (Saturday)
Time: 7 pm - onwards
Venue: Christ Church Spitalfields London E1 6QE

Tickets £9 (Concessions £7)
All proceeds go to Link Emergency Aid & Development of Burma
To buy tickets email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Featuring musicians including Ruth Rogers, Consortium 5, Ei Ei Khaing, Jenny Brittlebank, Carlos Guerrero Bullejos and Gita Paungu String Quartet performing Old and new classical music composed by Shwe Pyi Aye, Johann Sebastian Bach, Tim Benjamin, Frederic Chopin, Sandayar Hla Htut, A1 Soe Myint, Myo Ma Nyein, Brian Inglis, Roxanna Panufnik, Alan Ridout and Christopher Scobie.

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