Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A Charity Concert for Japan











Kuwait English School Band are presenting a Charity Concert in support of the people of Japan. The Concert will be held in The English School Auditorium in Salmiya, Area 12, Mousaed Al Azmi Street, at 7.30pm on Sunday, March 27. The concert is held under the auspices of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society.

“On behalf of the Government and the people of Japan, I would like to express sincere gratitude and appreciation to the Government and all the people of Kuwait for their profound sympathy and support for the people of Japan on the destruction and the humanitarian sufferings caused by the devastating earthquake and Tsunami” Yasuyoshi Komizo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the State of Kuwait, said in a press release.

Tickets are availale for a KD10 donation on a first come first served basis at Kuwait English School during school hours. KES is located in block 11 of Salwa in Street 9. Naoko Ueki, Manager at Fanar Mall, is providing tickets from 7.30am to 2.30pm at the Fanar Mall Management Office (25720317). Tickets are also available at Kei Japanese Restaurant at Marina Crescent   
(22244360) and JW Marriot Hotel (22422650).

"KES Band are performing to show they are in support of and as a gift to Japan, as a token of their sympathy and in hope for the future” said Rhoda Elizabeth Muhmood, KES Director.

KES Band previous performances for charity include for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Save the Children Fund, KACCH, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society and the Haiti Relief Fund. KES Band has also performed at the Dorchester Hotel in London, St Johns Smith Square, and at Millenium Dome in 2000, at the Emirates Palace and the Madinat Jumeirah. In Kuwait the Band has been called upon to perform on many special occassions, such as the Celebration of 100 years of Friendship between Kuwait and Britain, at embassies, official openings, conferences and farewell gatherings.


LWDLIK- The survivors have come through this terrible ordeal, lost all their wordly goods and they are desperately in need of shelter and uncontaminated food. If you can't make the concert a donation can be made to the American Red Cross who are running a fund-raising campaign. 

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