Hello everybody!Updating the blog, I´m posting the news of our October 15th 2010 fundraiser "Managua Blues: Lleca Fundraiser Festival" organised in the Schijnheilig, Amsterdam!
The fundraiser was a great succes: four rockbands, a theater duo and a visual artist performed generously on their own account throughout the night for 150 friends and visitors!! Cujo, Geyzer, De Gevoelige Drie, and Pattern Cutoff rocked the house while Toru&Noru shook the storage room with their violently silent theater performace, and Eli.o questioned and tickled the onlooker with her black humor artwork. We thank all of them for their fantastic input and presence at the fundraiser!! We also thank 1000x the venue, Schijnheilig, and their staff (above all Floris) for their great effort in hosting our fundraiser so magnificently!! It is an awesome underground culture location and we really really hope to be organising a second edition there in April 2011!
And foremost we would like to thank YOU for your thirsty livers and generous donations which helped us generate 570 euro´s :D Enough to be working at the penitentiary today - yep, just back from practice and writing from the internetcafé - forming and training the first Nicaraguan prison theater group Dinosaurios Teatro, and producing their first play "ASCO"!!
Before the doors opened at the fundraiser, Noticias (Dutch platform for news on Latin America) reporter Irene Pousse interviewed me, Julienne Weegels, at the Schijnheilig about our theater project in prison. The link eclosed in the title of this blog leads you to the page with the article (in Dutch) and video fragments they shot during the interview. Hope you enjoy! More photo´s of the fundraiser you can find on www.lleca.org or on our Facebook page "Lleca Teatro"! Have a great day!
Love,
LLECA
