Summer 2010 THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL 2011
The Red Earth Music and Dance Festival
venue (open air to be confirmed), near Aviemore |
December 2009 - Summer 2010
'Art with a Heart' Exhibition
Will be presented thought the month of August 2010 in
The T Bar, Cairngorm Mountain
by kind permission of Colin Kirkwood and Cairngorm Mountain
and continues to run through July in
Caffe Bleu and Mountain Cafe, Aviemore
Unique coastal captures by Edinburgh photographer Simon Nicholas White (http://www.simonnicholaswhite.com/) and rich and varied landscape paintings by Edinburgh artist Sarah Cairncross and screen prints and cards by Emma Evans will be on display and for sale in the name of Red Earth Children throughout the months of December and January in Aviemore. A sample of the pictures on show will be available in our Red Earth Exhibition Gallery. Thansk also to Nick Walls of Edinburgh who supplied striking portraits at Caffe Bleu.
All sales made from the exhibition will see a fantastic 50% contribution to Red Earth Children (Africa). This will equate to identifiable items/projects per sale (such as a child's school lunch for a year; a fruit tree planted; an energy efficient stove; etc. As a buyer you will be offered updates for a month, a year, or a life time of Red Earth Children Projects... |
The Cave Rock 'n' Reel' World AIDS Day Concert
with SHOOGLENIFTY, THE INJUNS & TV21
was held on 1st December 2009 at The Caves, Niddry St. South, Edinburgh
This spirited night raised more than £1,000 for Red Earth Children Projects thanks to around 130 people turning out and with the generous contributions by the bands. All of the bands made a very significant and impressive gesture and lots of great music to help us raise funds and awareness of Red Earth Children on a rainy night on World AIDS Day, 1st December. We are indebted to them all, and to everyone who turned up to listen and with offerings for the raffle. |
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The Red Earth Art Exhibition
Opening night was Friday 27th Nov Caffe Bleu, AVIEMORE 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Local launch of REC and to recognise World AIDS Day on 1st Dec.
Our enormous thanks go to the astonishingly generous trio, Sarah, Simon and Nick. Each painting or print sold will bring identifiable funds for items to the FAOC projects or CCFU Rwaiburindi School/Batwa people. Providing lunch sponsorship, energy efficient stoves, fruit trees and mosquito nets will make a big difference to the lives of the people who need it and give tangible value to each pound spent.
Aviemore has developed something of a cafe culture and several establishments have come together to display pictures for us through the 6-8 week period. This is being led by Caffé Bleu, who are part of the Cobbs Cafés Group, a Drumnadrochit based bakehouse and catering company and have an excellent main street location, great coffee and an enthusiastic manager who has generously grasped and expanded our ambitions and have offered to team up with Red Earth Children on a longer term basis. None the less our very significant thanks also go to Mountain Cafe, Ord Ban and Cafaidh Active.
Caffé Bleu are to host the opening night of the exhibition on the evening of 27th Nov from 6pm -8pm (tbc)
The evening will have the fabulous cakes and coffees of Cobbs at Caffe Bleu and a one night only addition of African tea (with proceeds of the 90 minutes going to Red Earth Children). Complimentary wine will also be served and a short presentation made on the origins and ambitions of Red Earth Children and how people can get involved one-to-one. In a phenomenal, extended gesture Sean Henderson, Caffé Bleu's Manager has offered 10 pence from every coffee sold over the counter in the whole week to Red Earth Children!
Various aspects of the exhibition will be placed in:
Caffé Bleu |
Grampian Road |
The Mountain Café |
Grampian Road |
The T Bar |
Cairngorm Mountain |
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We thank all participating venues for their kind offers to give wall space and any potential commission taken to our cause. Please reward all the cafés well in your purchases!
The exhibition will also display a number prints of many of the Ugandan children and communities that Red Earth Children now aim to help support, and beads and baskets handmade in the same villages. All sales will go directly back to the communities split between the craft maker or subject of the pictures and importantly to health, education and income support projects run by FAOC or CCFU.
Cobbs at Caffé Bleu, Aviemore
High Street
Aviemore
Inverness-shire
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1st December 2009
Cave Rock 'n' Reel Charity Concert
The Caves, Niddry Street South, Edinburgh 7.30pm - 11.00pm
This fantastic, atmospheric venue is generously supporting Red Earth Children by hosting our concert for World AIDS Day on the evening of 1st December.
The rousing ceilidh band Shooglenifty are headlining the night, with supporting acts from The Injuns and TV21. See above for purchase of tickets by telephone or email or through two vendors in Edinburgh. Tickets are £10.00 and are limited to 350.
Huge support is being shown by The Caves and all three bands and our thanks go to them as well as a key sponsor of the evening, TB MacKay Energy Services Ltd. See weblinks for all contacts
All profits raised from the night (anticipated to be approximately 70% of your ticket price!) will go direct to Red Earth Children's project links in Uganda, through Foundation for AIDS Orphaned Children or Children's Chance Foundation Uganda. This will be reported on the night.
August/Sep 2010
The Red Earth Festival
Aviemore
Info coming soon...
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