Phillips de Pury & Company, Tatler announced Bhopal Art Auction 11 October / Photocall notice
(UK PRWeb) 30 September 2010
With pots Bhopal Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Barry Reigate, Conrad Shawcross, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Harland Miller, Jason Brooks, Langlands, Bell, Marc Quinn, Mat Collishaw, Mona Hatoum, Patrick Hughes, Polly Morgan, Periton Simon, Sir Peter Blake, Stephen Webster, Subodh Gupta, the Chapman brothers, Tim Noble, Sue Webster, Tracey Emin, Vinka Shonibare and Pure Evil.
Location: Phillips de Pury & Company Howick Place, London SW1P 1BB
Phillips de Pury & Company are pleased to an auction in conjunction with the magazine Tatler and Hamish McAlpine, 11 October hosts awareness and raise money for the Bhopal Medical Appeal.
To commemorate the 25 years since the death of the world? s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Medical Appeal, invited 25 of the worldâ? the most important contemporary artists to a high degree of exposure and auction in London
11 October contribute.
Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Barry Reigate, Conrad Shawcross, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Harland Miller, Jason Brooks, Langlands, Bell, Marc Quinn, Mat Collishaw, Mona Hatoum, Patrick Hughes, Polly Morgan, Periton Simon, Sir Peter Blake, Stephen Webster, Subodh Gupta, the Chapman brothers, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Tracey Emin, Yinka Shonibare MBE and decorated with one of Pure Evil and traditional water jug, still many people in their daily collection of used water. These will be auctioned to raise funds for the Sambhavna Clinic, a clinic, the award-winning service and support offering for the victims of Bhopal and the surrounding communities and depends entirely on donations increase. The pots are primarily symbolic, because they highlight? Hidden? second disaster in Bhopal? to poison drinking toxic water, tens of thousands of people every day they drink more.
commented on the disaster that has led the British artist Tracey Emin, said, â? It was an atrocity that has left many people with so many unanswered questions.â ????
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the chemical disaster in Bhopal gas
The Bhopal Gas Chemical Disaster of 3 December 1984 of the world? s worst industrial disaster in history. Very toxic methyl isocyanate, used in the manufacture of the insecticide Sevin, from a Union Carbide factory leaked in American hands poorly maintained, late on the night of 2nd December killed at least 8,000 people were injured hundreds of thousands of others.
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important to have that can be prevented the disaster had to save money.
Almost 25 years later, killing more than 30,000 people and 120,000 chronically ill survivors are in desperate need of medical care. Children are frequently born with terrible deformities
site Union Carbide (now Dow) is highly contaminated by chemical waste continues to poison the people living near the disused factory.
Bhopal? s second catastrophe.
seriously polluted environment has poisoned the drinking water. Union Carbide is known for rejecting massive quantities of toxic waste into the soil around the plant (and later as a liquid waste? Solar evaporation Pondsâ? Off-site). potent toxins into the groundwater, drinking water washed out.
more than 30,000 people are chronically ill after drinking contaminated water from their wells and hydrants. This number increases the spread of toxins into the groundwater.
The Bhopal Medical Appeal
(Registered Charity No: 1117526)
awarded
Bhopal Medical Appeal (www.bhopal.org), called to a clinic in Bhopal, Sambhavna Fund. The clinic is the only place that everyone feels the effects of poison gas or contaminated water, a free treatment and to receive respectful treatment. All health care is free, where appropriate, patient-focused and based on the carefully balanced combination of traditional medicine and traditional therapies such as Ayurveda and Panchakarma.
Sambhavna
shows numerous innovations in sustainable health care. The building is constructed of durable materials, rain water collects wastewater re-cycle and powered by solar cells. A large organic garden produces plants and herbs, mixes, more than 50 different Ayurvedic medicines produce.
clinic is to identify people in small communities, and those needing treatment, monitoring, and to actively monitor health issues in their development. It helps the survivors to take steps to ensure the long-term health and justice advocates and environmental sanitation and drinking water address.
â? I remember that the most important example of a holistic, environmentally friendly, community-based and patient-oriented approach to health care clinic Sambhavna far ahead is all that I have visited or worked anywhere in the world.Â?
Dr. John Hurst, Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant UCL Medical School / Royal Free Hampstead Trust
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