Confluence The World - Moroccan Earthquake Fundraiser - Dumfries, Scotland

On the 20th and 21st of October, from 10.30am - 4.30pm, Confluence The World is hosting a fundraising exhibition at The Smithy, Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries, Scotland.

Confluence Books and Photography from the project will be on sale at reduced prices. Books will be half price - £20.00 Photographs, both framed and unframed will be for sale. Every penny raised will go to support the people most affected.

There will also be storytelling at 11.30am and 2.30pm each day

All proceeds will be gifted directly to The British Moroccan Society Earthquake Appeal Through kind donations, The British Moroccan Society are providing warm clothes, food, insulated living spaces, water purification units and mattresses to the people living in the mountains where snow is expected to fall soon. Please visit our Pop-Up Shop, donate online using the link above or kindly share this post with your contacts.

Thank You

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The Sidhe heard the news, saw the images, she could not believe her ears, she listened again and memories came flooding back to her....it was a warm evening, the mountains rising dark around her against a purple starlight sky. She was on a roof top with people sitting in a circle, a tajine in front of them, they had finished eating, and the singing and clapping began.

She looked out over the edge of the roof top and saw the glowing lights of the other houses in the village. They did not see her, she was a sliver of light, a shadow on the wall.  All gone?   It was September then and the evenings were warm but as winter comes the snow will fall, what will happen to the people of the mountains, then? The Sidhe rubs her arms and shivers at the thought. What can be done ? How can I help? That beautiful green book full of stories and photographs... Confluence The World... they could sell the books and photographs and give the money to help the people of the High Atlas. The Sidhe fluttered a photograph down, one of a light casting shadows on the wall, just as she had seen, and it landed at the feet of a Confluence member ”Ah, that’s a great idea why don”t we have a Pop-Up Exhibition?”

Story by Anne Errington

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