Two fund raising events coming up - Raclette evening in Nyon and a Poetry reading in Geneva

Fund raising event on 24th March in Nyon for reconstruction of schools in Haiti Fund raising "Raclette Evening"  at 18:30 with wine, a live band (jazz and rock), good food and a tombola.  The event is being held  in Nyon on the 24th March at the Uni Global building on avenue Reverdil 8-10 (very near Nyon railway station).  Entry is CHF 50 to  include an apéritif, raclette, à volonté and a dessert buffet. For those who just want to go for a drink  there will be a bar open until midnght. All the benefits are going to the charitable group called Save It. The group of students from Nyon gymnase who are behind this event ( in photo above) have been organising  T-shirt sales, cake sales and other events for the last two years since the earthquake in Haiti. To find out more about the group click here (info is in English) . To reserve for the raclette evening  click here or call Anabel Suter on 078 930 5906  (she speaks fluent English).   Poetry Reading on Friday 30th March with Carol Ann Duffy (details below).  Event: 19.30 Tickets: CHF 30 Bookings: info@theglas.org   Geneva Literary Aid Society click here for site .  Info below taken from GLAS site. Carol Ann Duffy is Britain's greatest living poet and certainly one of the most popular and entertaining. Her work is studied at schools and universities throughout the English-speaking world. She has been producing poems from the age of 11. When one of her English teachers died, she wrote: "You sat on your desk,/ swinging your legs, reading a poem by Yeats/ to the bored girls, except my heart stumbled and blushed/ as it fell in love with the words and I saw the tree/ in the scratched old desk under my hands, heard the bird in the oak outside scribble itself on the air." In May 2009, she became the first woman and the first Scot to be appointed poet laureate in the UK. In her first poem as poet laureate, Duffy tackled the scandal over British MPs expenses in the format of a sonnet. Her second, "Last Post", was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last two British soldiers to fight in World War I. In March 2010, she wrote "Achilles (for David Beckham)" about the Achilles tendon injury that left England Footballer David Beckham out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup; the poem was published in The Daily Mirror and treats modern celebrity culture as a kind of mythicisation. Duffy wrote a 46 line poem Rings for the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The poem celebrates the rings found in nature and does not specifically mention the couple's names. In a Stylist magazine, Duffy said of becoming poet laureate "There’s no requirement. I do get asked to do things and so far I’ve been happy to do them." Her poems are studied in British schools at GCSE, A-level, and Higher levels. The Aula, College des Coudriers, 15a Avenue Joli Mont, (Opposite Balexert on Avenue Louis Casai.) Parking available in Balexert or in the school grounds or in College des Coudriers. Doors open: 18.30 for ticket collection and refreshments Date: All proceeds channeled to the Furaha Orphanage through the Geneva- based Solidarité Pour les Enfants du Kenya.