guitar and sang Make You Feel My Love, One and Hotel
California.
• Neil Hobkirk (Marketing Director, Appletiser) sang Imagine,
Don’t Look Back in Anger and American Pie.
• Jen Su (Radio Presenter, 5FM’s The Hollywood Report) with a
voice to equal any super star, sang you’ve got a Friend and Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow.
The evening ended with all the performers taking to the stage
and singing the anthem for Room 13, Rockin’ for Room 13
(Rocking all over the world).
The idea that “imagination is everything” and that art education is
vital to the development of the child is appealing but the genius
behind these performers is that they were prepared to put
themselves on the line for the children of Room 13 and in doing
so transform the idea into a lived experience. An experience
in which we, as the audience, felt the drive, the passion, the
numinous transformation that art brings to the individual. I left the
performance introspective and inspired, as I began to examine
my own life and all the ways in which I am so often afraid to go
out on a limb and live my passions. I came to watch a show and
left exhilarated, inspired, charged and changed and therein lies
the true gift of the arts!
To support this initiative and buy the children’s art,
google room13.org.za.
SPECIAL MENTION – THANKS TO THE JACOB HAY BAND,
ORIGINATED IN 1968, FOR THE COMMITEMENT AND
SUPPORT IN MAKING THIS EVENT HAPPEN
THANKS TO MARIE JAMIESON.
Top: Reg Lascaris - CEO,
Hunt Lascaris TBWA.
Above: Gareth Cliff - 5fm
Presenter, Idols judge
Left: Neil Hobkirk - Marketing
Director, Appletiser.
Far left: Ian Fuhr - Fonder and
CEO, Sorbet.
Below: Jen Su Radio
Presenter 5FM and The
Hollywood Report
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