Dickey Orphanage

This page is about projects that people have set up to help Dickey Orphanage. If you are organizing a benefit action, you can mail us or leave a message in the guestbook. We will do all we can to help promote your activity.

Open Ateliers  is an art project in the city of Antwerp. During Open Ateliers artists have an open house, showing their studios and work to visitors. During Open Ateliers 2011 nine art studios donated 10% of their profits to Dickey Orphanage through the art4life project. Noor Springael en Liesbet Wante—glass art Klapdorp 95, 2000 Antwerpen Veronika Langerova – photography De Marbaixstraat 31, 2060 Antwerpen La Piscine d’Activité—visual arts Lange Brilstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen Kristine Van Roosbroeck—paintings and stained glass Keizerstraat 26, 2000 Antwerpen Herman Todts– paintings on canvas Pater Damiaanstraat 70, 2610 Wilrijk   Eliane Scheepers– oil and acrylic paintings Bolivarplaats 76, 2000 Antwerpen Freddy Gommers– installation Noorderlaan 28, 2000 Antwerpen Bertsarah– …

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On August 20th 2011 the City of Antwerp organised the ‘Bollekesfeest’. Part of this culinary event was the ‘Soup of the City’, a soup contest for local organisations. Nine teams contested for the title Soup of the City. The goal was to decorate a stall, prepare 50 litres of fresh soup, promote your organisation, hand out the soup and clean up. All this in two hours time! With a team of volunteers we prepared a delicious banana soup with chicken broth, tomatoes, bananas and curry. We seemed to be running out of time, but in 10 minutes all 50 litres of soup were distributed! We took this opportunity to promote …

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The Antwerp-based comedian Nigel Williams performed a stand-up comedy show on Sunday November 27th to help raise money for Dickey’s. The venue was COStA, Sint-Andriesplaats in Antwerp. We sold 60 tickets, postcards and calenders and raised about 1000 euro for the children.

On March 5th 2011, Belgian comedian Lies Lefever and Dutch comedian Bas Birker performed a stand-up comedy show to raise money for Dickey’s. The event took place at the Antwerp cultural centre CoStA at 8.30pm.

From September 9th 2010 until January 1st 2011 the “Tsenkher” photo exhibition can be visited at Cafe Multatuli, LangeVlierstraat in Antwerp, Belgium.

You can shop at the Spreadshirt shop of Dickey’s Orphanage. For every t-shirt that was created by Sarah, 5 euro will be transferred to a bank account for Dickey’s Orphanage. This money will be used to generate more funds for Dickey’s and help Amala Dadhon sustain the home. Thank you.

During the fall and winter of 2009 several fundraising events took place in Antwerp, Belgium. In September, I took part in two flea markets selling old books and cd’s, clothes, tableware etc. that was donated by friends and family. One market was on the St. Andries square, the other on Antwerp’s left bank organised by a local radio station. In November, Alex Agnew, performed his stand-up comedy at the coStA culture house in Antwerp, Belgium. The concert was sold out in no time. Some 130 people bought tickets and enjoyed an evening of great comedy. In December, we celebrated the opening of the photo exhibition “Tsenkher” with cookies and bishop’s …

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The Antwerp-based Dutch artist Bert Sarah will permanently donate ten percent of his art sales to Dickey Orphanage. He makes drawings with the famous BIC ballpoints only. With only blue, red, green and black available he manages to create a colourful and wonderous world on paper. This drawing is his interpretation of the famous words by the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, “To live like a tree single and at liberty and brotherly like the trees of a forest this yearning is ours”.

From Friday January 9th until Thursday February 5th you can visit the exhibition ‘Mongoliez’ in Den Hopsack (Grote Pieterpotstraat, Antwerpen) with pictures by Kees Meijer and Sarah Buys. During the exhibition photographs and photo cards are sold to raise money for Dickey’s.

On Saturday November 24th 2007, stand-up comedian Nigel Williams gave a 2-hour blasting comedy performance at the Sint-Andries Cultural Centre in Antwerp (Belgium). We want to thank all the people who made this possible and Nigel of course. This benefit raised 1850 Euros for the orphanage. Indymedia.be (Dutch site) made a report about the evening.