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News from Subud Britain Youth
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Posted by
louise
Friday, January 21, 2005
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Belated Happy New Year to you all!
We started well this year with a New Years Eve party at the Amadeus (Central London) organised in conjunction with SICA where we raised £950. The money will now go to the tsunami appeal, as we all felt strongly that we should do something to help our brothers and sisters in the difficult work that they are doing in Aceh.
You may remember that we originally advertised the party to raise money for the African bi-zonal meeting. However, a couple of weeks beforehand we found out the happy news that they had already met their target and were no longer looking for funding. At first this confused Melissa and I, as the testing had been strongly in favour for this cause. Then again, thinking about it, we had tested about how it was to organise an event for the African bi-zonal meeting, which had been really lovely. And it was. The organising had been relatively easy, and quite fun to do. When we found out that we had a party but no cause, we didn’t really know what to do. The testing was unclear and heavy about where to send any money raised, and it was correct for us to use our heads and hearts to decide closer to the time. Unfortunately, as you know, the world was traumatised by the news on Boxing Day of the tsunami that devastated so many people’s lives. It was deeply shocking to hear about the families losing loved ones in such a violent way and about the wreckage left behind when the waters receded. It was an automatic response to donate what money we raised to help those affected by the tsunami. The generosity of so many who were at the party was really touching, as people were willing to empty their purse/wallet for those in so much need.
The evening started with a beautiful cello recital by Rosada Davies, who travelled all the way up from Exeter to be with us that evening. We were rocked most of the night by the impromptu ‘Ibuprofen and the painkillers’ (aptly named for what I was looking for the morning after) with Raphael Skerrat, Marcus Bolt, Hayward Slater, Andrew Clague and Matthew Warman playing. This was interrupted briefly for the favours auction, generously provided for and bought by the following: a personal portrait by Carol Harrington raised £100 from Martin Amos, a neck massage by Olivia Weaver went to Hardy Speight (£25), a personal letter head to be designed by Marcus Bolt was bought by Kate Brightwell (£50), a sound therapy treatment to be given by Adrienne Thomas to Rosemary Tolley (£80), an origami lesson from Heidi Gawen to Conrad Williams (£25) and the advantages of your very own personal herbalist for a year of Haskel Adamson to Tony Harrington for £120 (who gave it to me, hurrah!). At midnight we sang Auld Lang Syne, and then discoed the early hours away with DJ Marilyn. Thanks to all of you for not only bravely standing up in front of everybody, but for performing/donating such amazing talents for free.
There are so many people to thank for all of their time and efforts in bringing this party together, and for those who paid up for the auction. A special thanks goes to the Amadeus centre for allowing us to have the party, Raynier Platings for the decorations, to Melissa Bolt for getting this project off the ground, Lucas Adamson for brilliant comparing and to Olivia Weaver and Bustami Pollard for being such excellent bar tenders. And thanks also to the huge team of people who fetched and carried and made and did all the other many things necessary to pull this evening off (you know who you are). People were dancing and chatting, and there was a really lovely atmosphere all evening.
We are going to organise a spring party, most likely in Brecon. Amelia Nankivell and I had the idea at the same time, miles apart, so it must be fate! Spray painting and DJing may be on the agenda, but I would also like us to get something together to take to World Congress this year to sell (CD/DVD/designed t shirts?). Get in touch soon and tell me what you think. Keep an eye on the website for more details: http://subudlife.com. If we work this out early on, we can sort out transport between us, and do something constructive. As important as it is just to get to know each other through these events, it would be good to take away something useful, be it a new skill or an enterprise to make SYA (Subud Youth Association) financially independent. We should be proud and happy to be part of such an amazing and diverse group.
There is also an idea to set up an enterprise of some sort during World Congress at Innsbruck which would help support financially those who find it difficult to afford to get there. We were thinking of a juice bar, but we need you to go ahead to organise it and run it, otherwise nothing will happen.
Quite a few of us will be heading up to the Edinburgh Peace festival at the end of February to beginning of March. There will be a few youth events being held there, so it would be lovely to see you there. A good website to look at is: www.eial.org. Get in touch straight away if you would like to volunteer there (and if you’re quick enough, get in for free, and get free board).
I would really like to get in touch with ‘Subud Youth’ in Britain especially 14-19 years old. You’re really hard to track down! Send me your e mail addresses (subudyouth_uk@yahoo.com), and then it’ll be easier for us to get together. I need somebody from each group to take responsibility to get in touch with every young person (opened and unopened who wish to be involved) in that area, so we can form a big network that communicates easily. If you have never received an e mail from me, then I don’t know that you’re out there. There’ll be plenty of things going on this year.
All my love
Louise
PS Sorry if I have spelt your name wrongly, or if you helped at the party and are not mentioned above, no insult was intended!
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