[Sust-mar] Muriel Duckworth's 100th Birthday Concert

[Pat Kipping (home)]

Oxfam Canada presents

Muriel Duckworth’s 100th Birthday Concert and Celebration

November 2, 2pm

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Halifax, NS

A fundraising concert to launch the Oxfam Canada Jack and Muriel  
Duckworth
Fund for Active Global Citizenship

A reception in the Dalhousie Arts Centre Sculpture Court will begin at  
2 pm with the concert following at 3:15pm .

Veteran peace and social justice activist, Muriel Duckworth is  
celebrating her 100th Birthday. To honour the occasion and the  
inspiring leadership both she and her late husband have given to  
thousands of Canadians, 100 voices will rise in song and Oxfam will  
launch the Oxfam Canada Jack and Muriel Duckworth Fund for Active  
GlobalCitizenship.

Concert performers include: Aeolian Singers, Carolyn McDade with the  
Gaia Singers, Cathy Martin with We’koqma’qewiskwa, Clearing by Noon,  
Cheryl Gaudet, Four the Moment, Raging Grannies, Truro Youth Choir and  
other special guests.

The Fund supports Oxfam Canada’s work at home and with counterparts  
overseas - especially youth and women who are exercising their rights  
to be heard in order to create peaceful states and communities where  
poverty is overcome and social justice prevails.

To purchase tickets contact:
Dalhousie Arts Centre box office
(902)494-3820 or toll-free at 1-800-874-1669
  www.artscentre.dal.ca.
Ticket price is $20 (children under 16 free).
Gifts to the new Fund will be gratefully accepted.

For more information about the Muriel Duckworth 100th Birthday Concert  
and Celebration contact:
Peggy Walt, Cultural Affairs Consulting & Promotion
Telephone/Fax: (902) 422-5403
Cell:  (902) 476-1096
E-mail: pwalt at eastlink.ca

For more information about the Oxfam Canada Jack and Muriel Duckworth  
Fund for Active Global Citizenship contact:
Patricia Kipping
Major Gifts Officer, Atlantic Canada
2099 Gottingen St.
Halifax, NS B3K3B2
(902)425-7677
Email: patk at oxfam.ca