Tag: amnesty international

Dancing in the streets

Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al are look­ing to recruit street per­formers to sup­port human rights as part of Free­dom Week 2006(their annu­al aware­ness and fun­drais­ing week 31 july – 6 august)

Money col­lec­ted on the streets this year will sup­port their crisis cam­paign­ing work, in par­tic­u­lar their work to stop human rights abuses in Dar­fur, Sudan.

To help raise the pro­file of Free­dom Week, and boost pub­lic dona­tions, for the first time this year, they’re ask­ing artists, busk­ers and per­form­ing arts stu­dents to give up half an hour or an hour of their time to busk on Free­dom Day, their street appeal day. In Wel­ling­ton that’s Thursday 3rd August.

This is an invite to dance for love in the street to sup­port Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al’s Free­dom Day.

What: Free­dom Day street per­form­ance with Wel­ling­ton Batu­cada (for Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al’s Free­dom Week)

When: Thursday 3rd August, between 5 and 6pm

Where: Corner of Lamb­ton Quay and Feath­er­ston St (in front of Old Bank Arcade)

Cos­tumes: To be advised

Oth­er: There will be no prac­tices, so you will need to be con­fid­ent in fol­low­ing carnival/samba reg­gae moves as lead by a teach­er and free­styl­ing as well.

Shake it for a good cause, or just go along and show your sup­port.