WAR CHILD ANNOUNCES BUSKING FOR CHANGE MONTREAL
War Child announced today that its successful Busking For Change festival will be coming to Montreal on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Busking For Change Montreal features a full day of great music, with celebrated artists “busking” at pre-determined locations in Montreal. All of the artists will be performing in support of War Child, an award-winning charity that provides humanitarian assistance to war-affected children in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
Busking For Change Montreal will take place between 8:00 am and 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 2nd at various locations throughout the city, including Berri-Uqam and Place des Arts Metro stations and throughout the Eaton Centre. A full list of participating artists and locations will be released closer to the date.
Busking for Change Montreal is taking place at a crucial time, when War Child is setting up long term rehabilitation programming in Haiti. The event will mark the return of a War Child assessment mission from the devastated country, where it will be working to help the most vulnerable by providing support in trauma recovery, poverty reduction and education to those children and youth that are most at risk.
War Child’s second annual Busking For Change festival in 2009 saw musicians hit the streets of Toronto (September), Calgary (October) and Vancouver (December) to busk for War Child. Busking for Change Toronto featured over 40 celebrated musicians, including artists Chantal Kreviazuk, Sass Jordan, Default, ill Scarlett, Arkells, USS, Neverending White Lights, Shiloh, Down With Webster, Hollerado and many more, scattered throughout the city, busking to raise funds for children whose lives have been torn apart by war. Over $100,000 was raised through Busking for Change initiatives in 2009. This will be the first time that Busking For Change will take place in Montreal.
The event was inspired by Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, who spent twelve hours busking for War Child on Toronto streets, while publicizing his solo album, The Hunter’s Lullaby, and filming the music video for the album’s first single. Raine raised an astonishing $22,000 for War Child Canada’s Rehabilitation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that year.
Spring (myspringshoes.com) will be part sponsoring the event. Spring has been a partner of War Child for over a year. During that time they have raised enough money to rebuild three schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two of the schools opened their doors to students in September 2009.
War Child works with children all over the world to mitigate the effects of poverty, provide an education and to defend and promote child rights. We work tirelessly to help children whose lives have been torn apart by conflict, and provide them with the means to build a brighter future. War Child works with local people and organizations in Afghanistan, Darfur (Sudan), Uganda, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia,
Sri Lanka, Georgia and Haiti. For more information about War Child, please visit www.warchild.ca <http://www.warchild.ca> .
