News & Events
NEWS FLASH ONE
Anno's Africa held a giant, star-studded party on Sunday, 27th September at the 20th Century Theatre in West London to celebrate the launch of its new, autonomous charity status.
In the afternoon there was a family event with workshops in mask making, circus arts and dance for the children, and homemade fairground games for all to play, with prizes at the end of the afternoon for the highest scorers.
In the evening we hosted an exclusive live concert for the charity, starring Kula Shaker, Johnny Borrell from Razorlight and Jane Birkin - with Jane and Johnny singing a duet of the famous Serge Gainsbourg song, "Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais". Guests were met outside by stilt walkers and in the foyer watched musical performances by 12 year old Hero on the harp and Rona on the fiddle and inside, the packed house enjoyed delicious canapes prepared by Sven, a young chef from the Ritz hotel, and got competitive on the fairground games in between performances to try and win some of the marvellous prizes our friends and patrons had so kindly donated.
At the end of the evening, we held an auction for a prize donated by our patron Alan Rickman, of a visit to the set of the final Harry Potter film, for two adults and two children, escorted by Alan himself. Everybody wanted it, only one could win....
We raised a goodly sum of money and everyone had a wonderful time, and we thank all those who attended, helped or donated prizes or their time.
Film clips of the concert will be posted on youtube as soon as they have been edited, and photos will be appear on this page very soon...."
NEWS FLASH TWO
Other news is that the Anno's Africa team are now back in Nairobi running the Autumn programme. We are working in the Kibera, Mathare and Majengo slums with over 500 children... This year we will be sure to set up a blog to report on our progress and upload some photos as we go along..."
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