VERSUS CANCER CHARITY CONCERT

18th September 2010.

Hope for Kids, the community service group I am part of, held a charity concert. There were many different acts from different schools and people from around Colombo that signed up to perform. All proceeds of the event were to go the Children's Cancer Ward at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital, the only government cancer hospital in the country. The purpose of the charity group is to raise money to maintain the children's play room which we built there.

Goals:
-Carry off a concert that runs smoothly.
- To make a lot of money.

On the day of the concert, there was a dress rehearsal, where we had a full run through of the show and who is going where. I was the backstage co-ordinator and I had to co-ordinate when people had to go on. My idea was to have people be backstage 2 shows early, so that everyone would be ready to go on, with as little air time as possible. However, many people did not come for this rehearsal, and some of them ended up singing 3 or 4 songs, and taking up half an hour on stage, so people were waiting to go on for nearly an hour. Tickets sold out fast, and people ended up having to buy a ticket by the seller writing on a piece of paper. Other than that, I think that overall it turned out well, and it made a lot of money, and also joined a lot of people together so they made a lot of friends.