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21-11-00 news
ICROSS Celebrity Art Auction...

The wife of the Irish based singer Chris De Burgh, Diane and ShowBizIreland.com are looking for your help for the Dublin based charity ICROSS who are giving national and international celebrities a taste for creativity with this year’s Celebrity Art Auction fundraiser in aid of an East African AIDS Care Project. Based on the theme ‘Food for Thought’, ICROSS are asking celebrities to take part in the fundraiser by contributing a signed picture or painting of their favourite food or drink, all to be auctioned off at a gala event in November.

The works of art on the menu for the charity auction will include actress Janet Leigh’s Plate of Bolognese, Pavarotti’s Plum Pudding, Joan Rivers Ice Cream Sundae, Tomato Soup by Annie Lennox and Jeffrey Archer’s Diet Coke.

British actor Richard E. Grant used the Food for Thought theme to make a strong message on AIDS awareness, while Sex in City star Sarah Jessica Parker’s drew a self portrait complete with spaghetti hair!

The charity have had a fantastic response from international artists including Cecile Brunswick, Darrell Black and American artist Dory Coffee whose work is included in the collections of the President Clinton.

All the money raised will go to ICROSS, who have been working in Kenya for the last twenty years. ICROSS are implementing an innovative Aids Prevention and Home Care programme in East Africa, which is supported by The Elton John AIDS Foundation.

The Celebrity Art Auction, now in its fourth year, is the brainchild of Dubliner Ciaran Gearty, who has become well known for his fundraising endeavours over the last number of years.

The ICROSS Celebrity Art Auction will take place in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on November 23rd. For ticket details or further information, please contact Rebecca Burrell on (01) 6704744 or (087) 2239377.