Annie Lennox and teachers from all over Scotland standing with the 34th African Children's Choir on the steps of the Scottish Parliament (Click to enlarge) - a great photo Annie posted on her website together with some press coverage clippings from her visit at the Festival Of Politics in the past 2 days:
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In addition to the presentation of "SING Campaing - One Year On" (watch here again), … more
As reported here earlier, Annie Lennox presented her SING Campaign this Thursday in Holyrood, Scotland. Coming back to the "Festival Of Politics" after her visit in 2009 (more), the event was named "Annie Lennox and the SING Campaign - One Year On". Annie Lennox joined a panel on Wednesday already at the Scottish parliament (watch it again here).
First Annie explained in 40 minutes with the help of a number of films shot in Africa … more
As reported here earlier Annie Lennox spoke at the Festival Of Politics 2010 at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood yesterday in a one hour discussion with chairman Alasdair Morgan MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer, Martin Bell, recounting his successful campaign to become a 'sleaze-busting' MP, Mark Thomas, leading political campaigning comedia and Perrier Award nominee, and the audience.
See some screenshots from the webcast above. … more
Founder of the SING campaign set for Edinburgh appearance
Five things you didn’t know about HIV/AIDS in South Africa, by Annie Lennox, musician and founder of the SING campaign for HIV/AIDS women and children.
1. Becoming a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador recently has strengthened and broadened my platform. Michel Sidibé, the director of UNAIDS, is a real visionary who has a very clear and innovative directive as to how he wants to lead the … more
From the official Festival Of Politics 2010 blog:
Following her inspiring appearance at the 2009 Festival, Annie Lennox will be returning this year to provide an update on the progress of her SING campaign which is fighting HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. By way of a preview to her forthcoming event, we spoke to Annie about some of the key issues and achievements she has experienced in her campaign work … more
Annie Lennox made it onto the front page of CNN.com. The news site present her fight against HIV / Aids with a video interview and and corresponding article: Watch the video and read the full article here. … more
Annie Lennox talked to Andrew Jack of the Financial Times about her role as Goodwill ambassador for the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, her history as an activist with Nelson Mandela, TAC, the SING Campaign and what role celebrity has in giving campaigns a voice: Click here to listen to and download the interview. … more
Annie Lennox spoke at the opening ceremony of the 28th International AIDS conference in Vienna yesterday. Click here to a few commented photos from Annie and click here to watch a video of yesterday's opening session (Annie's speech starts at 3:23:52 on the player). Tomorrow she is going to perform live in Vienna. Support the SING Campaign! … more
Annie Lennox shared a number of great photos on her Facebook and MySpace sites of her speaking and performing appearances in the past days at the TED Global 2010 conference in Oxford. She wore her HIV POSITIVE T-Shirt to raise awareness for the HIV/Aids situation in the world and to promote her SING Campaign (read more here) and moved the audience with her and Eurythmics songs that they sang along and got very excited (ethrill.net reported). … more
At the second appearance of Annie Lennox during the TED Global 2010 conference in Oxford, she presented today the achievements of the Annie Lennox SING Campaign. Yesterday she closed the day with a live peformance (ethrill.net reported).
Annie Lennox told how she became and HIV/AIDS campaigner and joined Nelson Mandela's 46664 campaign (which was his former cell number). Again she explained the meaning of the HIV POSITIVE T-Shirt and how it helps to … more