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Tuesday, 22 January 2008
This Came in to Nell and so we have posted it for you all to read
Dear Guild Secretary / GPC MemberPlease ask your Guild Members to look at the linked website and add theirnames to the petition to save the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre.In view of the deadline for signatures of 10th February, there is nopossibility of including this in the Newsletter or the Journal before thatdate, although there may be a link from the Association website.Dot Seddon has asked me to forward this to those Guild Secretaries for whomwe have e-mail addresses.RegardsTrudi>> URGENT>>>> To all friends of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre:>>>> I am writing to you as I know you will be>> concerned to learn that the survival of the Art>> Centre in Harrania, for whose adobe workshops>> and galleries Ramses Wissa Wassef won the Aga>> Khan Award for Architecture in 1983, is>> seriously threatened by rising water.>>>> To view dramatic photographs and to read a>> report about the damage please>> visit www.wissa-wassef-arts.com/petition.html>>>> The trustees of the Ramses Wissa Wassef>> Exhibition Trust, a charity registered in the>> United Kingdom which in 1985/86 and 2006>> organised a series of highly successfully>> exhibitions of the tapestries in the UK, plan to>> present a petition to the Governor of Giza and>> other authorities in Egypt.>>>> Please lend your support to this call for urgent>> action to ensure the survival of the Art Centre>> and of the tapestry weaving experiment which>> continues to delight and inspire thousands of>> people thoughout the world. Any further help you>> can give by urging friends and colleagues to>> sign the petition would be greatly>> appreciated. All signatures will be added to>> the 300 collected at the recent exhibition of>> new tapestries for sale held in London at the>> end of 2007.>>>> Barbara Heller, Trustee & Secretary of the>> Ramses Wissa Wassef Exhibition Trust>>>>Please sign the on-line petition by 10th February 2008 at>>>>http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/on-behalf-of-the-ramses-wissa-> wassef-art-centre-egypt.html>>>>
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