Inciting future World TB days (24
March) and other TB advocacy events
Icons of Europe, a Stop TB partner,
provides an innovative platform for
fighting tuberculosis with the arts
Would this experience be of interest to your institution?
Keats, Weber, Chopin, Tocqueville,
Kafka, Orwell
and many other Icons died early
in their life of tuberculosis. Their legacy provides
today an opportunity
to remind
important target audiences that TB has re-emerged as a
massive global challenge. |
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, singing at Chopin's
deathbed in 1849;
almost
like the nightingale for the Chinese emperor in Hans
Christian Andersen's story.
The biography "CHOPIN and The Swedish Nightingale" (2003) by
the founders and managers of Icons of Europe carries a TB
message by the director-general of WHO. Its income is
donated to the TB fight.
Their musical drama "The composer and The Nightingale",
already performed at Brussels,
Warsaw, Toronto, New York for
'new Europe' and TB advocacy purposes, is ideal as a World TB
Day event.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
YOU:
>> Use the musical
drama to promote your event or World TB Day
>> Consult Icons of Europe on how to
use the arts for such events
>> Buy the Chopin biography and/or
the 1st ed. Jenny
Lind booklet
>> Make a financial contribution to the Icons
of Europe TB Fund
 Cecilia
and Jens Jorgensen, founders and managers of Icons of
Europe, have since 2003 funded most of
their Stop TB
initiatives with private means. Additional
resources could make a significant impact on future events.
<< Men and women apparently sick with 'consumption',
i.e.
tuberculosis
at a British ward in the 19th century.
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