Charity cultural gala

In April 2022, after sculpting the living peace sign, I had the idea of fundraising for Ukrainian children fleeing the war, in a cultural gala. My school provided the venue and a supportive environment. They made the event a great success:

In Pál Mácsai, we saluted an actor, a director, a theatre director, a creative and sensitive man.

After the prose, we opened with music. Music that everyone understands. Performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, which is justly world-famous and their name is a guarantee of quality.

There are poems and lyrics that, when we hear them, we think: I could have written this, this about him, this was written for me. There are lyrics whose words we quote and use. With the words and lyrics of Péter Geszti, we from several generations do the same. He is able to combine literature with music.

The solo of the Gangaray Dance Company, a significant representative of the Hungarian contemporary dance world, was danced by Krisztina Baumgartner.

Judit Halász created a new genre as a musical performer. Her literary and acting greatness, her fabulous voice and personality are known to everyone.

The message of the event, apart from the collection, was that different styles, different genres, different ages: one goal. Judit Halász recited Miklós Radnóti’s poem Hymn of Peace. Pál Mácsai chose István Örkény’s short story Remembering the War. In between the two literary works, the members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra played for us the String Quartet in G major op.17.no.5. He sang the song Hiszekegy by Péter Geszti. A small group of current Fazekas students performed a song from John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance with some enthusiastic members of the audience. The Gangaray Dance Company’s Krisztina Baumgartner performed the solo from AGORA’s Resurrection II.

Refugee children and young people were seated in the audience rows, so that the program could be a relaxing, relaxing and distracting experience. Thanks to donations from alumni of the pottery and parents of current students and teachers, we managed to raise 800,000 forints.
I asked for the help of two foundations that I know of to distribute it: Migration Aid and the Meals for Life Charitable Foundation (Ételt az Életért Közhasznú Alapítvány).