Culture fundraising concert - “Our Brothers of the Streets Sing a Song of Hope”
This event, a continuing project of the NCCK Committee against Homelessness, was held on March 30 at the Cafe “Mun-hwa Gong-gan” where the homeless have work as baristas , read books and study computers for rehabilitation.
A video ceremony was contributed by director Kim Kyung Mo who participated as an assistant director for The Host, 2006 (http://movie.naver.com/movie/bi/mi/basic.nhn?code=39841). He will go on to film a documentary of the homeless and volunteers making preparations for the Homeless Creative Music Festival. In this way we can widen the audience who experiences the emotional impact of the event for the homeless and volunteers.
Lee Jae Young who played the danso, a short bamboo flute, had been homeless before participating in the first Homeless People’s Creative Music Festival. After that event, he determined not to live like this. He returned to his hometown, and worked as a taxi driver. Receiving the news of the preparation of the second festival fundraising concert, he came at his own expense to Seoul from Jinjoo. He wants to declare how important this festival is. Through it, he received friends, hope and will to succeed, and this festival process is able to provide participants with restored relations and renewed lives.
Cha Bit Na is a singer song-writer; Mido is an indie band organized by Jeon yeong-hoon who is a minister and a CCM singer song-writer; Sol-sol-boo-neun Bom-baram (The Gentle Spring Breeze) is also an indie band. They all contributed their talent for this concert.
Talk concert reflections were given by Ko Eun Jeong, Jeong Yoo Cheol, and Park Chang Yoon
Ko Eun Jeong is a volunteer who is also a music teacher and musical actor, while Jeong Yoo Cheol, and Park Chang Yoon are homeless men. Jeong Yoo Cheol participated in the first festival, taking an active part as a creative musical actor and choir member. He wanted to express the valuable advantage this festival has for participants. Park Chang Yoon did not participate in the first festival, but after hearing of its advantage from homeless friend who was very impressed by its significance, he wanted to participate in this one.
The goals of the program were presented this way:
This event is a stage in which homeless people and non-homeless are, through the medium of music, gladly accepting their differences and working together.
It is a program of knowing, understanding and appreciating each other through the breaking of our biases. Our small effort will be for them a big support.
The street dads are standing against the bias and preconceptions held about homeless people!
At the Homeless People’s Creative Music Festival they have the opportunity to tell their own stories and share their feelings.
This will be a place of communicating with the people who are empowering the process as sponsors or participants, and through this communicating, we are going to make the Second Homeless People’s Creative Music Festival.
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