To raise money for the 2010 festival our project coordinator, Sue Macmillan, has completed a sponsored swim across the Dardanelles with her husband James.
The strait of the Dardanelles (known in the past as the Hellespont) is one of the two Turkish straits that separates the geographical areas of Asia and Europe. The swim that the Macmillan’s did was part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron, the renown British Romantic Poet, swimming the same route on the 3rd May 1810.
We also had a runner in this year’s Brighton Marathon who raised money towards this the 2010 Youth Festival. Stephen Norris, who heard about our festival through one of our volunteers agreed to collect sponsorship money for Most Mira. He is now recovering from what was his first marathon!
SATURDAY APRIL 10TH
At the New Empowering Church in Hackney
Presenting:
VICTOR MENACE swinging some ninja folk
SHE’KOYOKH Krackling Klezmer Kwartet
NIGEL BURCH and his flea-ridden fiddler!
WORLD OF SEVDAH top-shelf Bosnian sevdalinka
+ performing insects in the cinema!
see flier for more details ->
In collaboration with Jumble Jam Festival, all proceeds go to Most
Mira Project!
In support of the Youth Festival 2010 Sonja Živak, Most Mira volunteer in Australia organised public forum at the Melbourne University Law Students Society.
Following the screening of the Most Mira film from the festival in 2009, more than 70 people took part in the discussion “Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation in Post-War Bosnia & Herzegovina” with distinguished panel of speakers: Ron Adams, Ethno-historian at La Trobe University; Maria Tumarkin, Research Fellow, Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University; and Hariz Halilovich, Research Fellow, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne.
Since this event at the end of March, Most Mira received a number of generous donations from Australia via our Charity Choice online donating facility.
Thank you to all our supporters in Australia!
Download the flier here
