Inciting World TB days (24 March)
and other TB advocacy events
Icons of Europe, a Stop TB partner,
provides an innovative platform for
fighting tuberculosis with the arts
Would this experience be of interest to your institution?
Paganini, Weber, Keats, Chopin, Tocqueville,
Kafka, Orwell and
many other Icons died early in their life
of tuberculosis. Their legacy provides
today an opportunity to remind the world that TB has re-emerged as a massive global
threat with implications for HIV/AIDS. |
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, singing at Chopin's
deathbed in 1849 (Félix Barrias, 1883); almost like
the nightingale for the Chinese emperor in Hans Christian
Andersen's story. Oscar Wilde: "Life imitates
Art far more than Art imitates Life" (The Decay of Lying,
1889).
Icons of
Europe initiatives
The biography "CHOPIN and The Swedish Nightingale" (2003) by
the founders and managers of Icons of Europe carries a TB
message by the Director-General
of WHO. Its income is donated to the TB fight.
The musical drama "Chopin and The Nightingale", already
performed at Brussels, Warsaw, Toronto, New York for 'new
Europe' and TB advocacy purposes, is ideal as a World TB Day
event.
>> TB-fight initiatives since 2003:
The arts and cultural researchExamples
of comments by patrons:
- Toronto Public
Health about WTBD performance at Toronto
- Poland's
Ambassador Jan Tombiński about Chopin and TB
Opportunities
for you
>>
Use the musical drama to promote your event or World
TB Day
>> Consult Icons of Europe on how to
use the arts for such events
>> Write a PhD thesis on TB and
the Arts (ref. Stanford University 2012)
>> Buy the Chopin biography and/or the
1st ed. Jenny Lind booklet
>> Make a financial contribution to
the Icons of Europe TB Fund
 Cecilia
and Jens Jorgensen, founders and managers of Icons of
Europe, have since 2003 funded most of
their Stop TB
initiatives with private means. Additional
resources would be welcome.
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