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Press Release
A Blue Sky Club Presentation, with the kind permission of Dramatic
Publishing, USA and Directed By Amanda Waring:
Holocaust Memorial Day
Thursday 27th January
18:45 the Atlee Room, Portcullis House, Westminster
Hosted by Andrew Love MP
By Invitation Only
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Host of stars including VANESSA REDGRAVE and JUNE SARPONG will be joining leading Politicians, Human Rights Advocates and Community and Religious leaders of all faiths at the special British version of American Playwright James Still's powerful anti-hate drama.
AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME is an imaginative ensemble of dramatisation, oral history, pre-recorded interview and especially composed music. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions to Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank and a survivor of Nazi persecution and mass murder, and to listen to what she can tell us about the best and the worst of human behaviour.
The play, which the Blue Sky Club is planning to take to schools, colleges, prisons and parliaments across Europe and USA to spread the message from Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss.
" I am pleased that the play, AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME - Remembering the world of Anne Frank, by James Still is being performed in the House of Commons. I hope this will lead to it being performed in schools, universities, prisons and other educational places in this country, in parallel to the U.S.A. where it has been shown in many hundred of places of learning all over the country. Unfortunately many young people do not know very much about what happened in the last century, how hatred and prejudice prevailed and prevented people from resisting evil. Through knowledge of what happened then, we are trying to prevent a repetition of such horrors Eva Schloss"
Eva Schloss will be interviewed on GMTV 6.30-7am, and will be appearing on ITN, BBC and Sky news throughout the day.
For further information and Press Accreditation please contact
Nic Careem at the Blue Sky Club on: 07787-737-827
Editors note:
The Blue Sky Club is a powerful social campaigns network of like minded people who want to use their fame, influence or financial success to campaign and create platforms for people with ability, but without the means to realise their dreams, whatever their race, colour, faith, age, sexuality, physical or educational ability. Its core belief is changing the world for the better starts with changing yourself and changing the attitudes of those closest to you. The Club's brainchild's include the taking of the British version of the Anne Frank exhibition to prisons across the UK and inspiring the Nelson Mandela Concert in Trafalgar's Square and organising the national tribute with the singer Joan Armatrading and the poet laurete Andrew Motion.
The Blue Sky Club is planning to take the play around the UK, as part of its commitment to bring people of all faiths and races and backgrounds together; to promote the enrichment and joy that can come from living in a diverse and multi-heritage country, where our differences make no difference.
Blue Sky Club supporters now include some of the most influential people in the world - from politics to the entertainment industry, business and media.
It's programme of events for the coming year include Blue Sky Club sport-in-the-park (the whole of Hyde Park will be transformed into an area celebrating sport and community) Youth Mayor for London (November) Blue Sky is planning to take "then they came for me" to parliaments across Europe to remind those who make our laws and social policies the work that still need to be done to prevent such things happening again.
Blue Sky has been is discussion with Blue Sky Supporter Waris Hussien, the legendary film director, and Eva Schloss about making a movie about her and her mother's liberation from Auschwitz and what happenned after...a story that needs to be told.
THE BLUE SKY CLUB MAKING A DIFFERENCE WHERE IT MATTERS.
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