Comedy / cube cinema
Josie Long heads Nepal Kids Kino fundraiser
Writer and comedian Josie Long will be joined by comics including Gavin Osborn and Bristol’s Mark Olver for a special fundraiser at Colston Hall’s The Lantern on Thursday, September 3 in support of the Cube Cinema’s Nepal Kids Kino Project.
NKKP is a mobile cinema project that screens films to children in rural areas of Nepal, who have been displaced from their homes by the recent earthquakes. The project’s ethos is to use cinema to offer community, stories, laughter, light and distraction to these displaced children.
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Patrick McCormick, emergencies communication officer for the United Nations, explains: “The worst thing for children in natural disasters isn’t just the damage that they see around them, but also when they sit around with nothing to do. It ramps up anxiety and despair, and that’s what does even more damage.”
A BBC New Comedy Award winner at the age of 17, Josie Long has been a regular voice on Radio 4 ever since – known for her podcasts (often with the similarly brainy, curious and off-kilter Robin Ince), TV work (Skins, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, etc), writing and work with Arts Emergency and the Alternative Reality Tour. Back on stage, meanwhile, Josie has been an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee for three consecutive years.
The project is the successor to the Cube’s succcessful 2010 Haiti Kids Kino Project when, less than a month after the Haiti earthquake, volunteers from the cinema travelled to the island to project films on buildings and tents. They gave cameras to children to explore their own lives, projecting them back on the big screen to one another and back in the UK.
Performing alongside Josie at The Lantern (8pm, £15 adv + booking fee) will be Gavin Osborn (“Funny and touching. Osborn walks a similar tightrope to Loudon Wainwright III.” – Stewart Lee) and host, Bristol’s compere beyond compare Mark Olver (pictured below), himself a nominee in this year’s Chortle Best Compere awards.
The evening will also feature footage gathered from the 2010 Haiti Kids Kino Project and a short sample of the children’s film programme.
For more information, visit kidskino.cubecinema.com. To book tickets, visit www.colstonhall.org/