{"id":11289,"date":"2015-08-26T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/charity-to-give-or-not-to-give\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:35:20","slug":"charity-to-give-or-not-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/charity-to-give-or-not-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity: To Give Or Not To Give?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>29 August 2015 <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/Charity%20Give%20-447x261.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"><strong>Sat 29 Aug <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"><strong>6.30pm <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tickets \u00a315<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"><strong>Age 12+<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><font size=\"2\"><em>Written and directed by Zayneb Khan<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><font size=\"2\"><em>Produced by Zeenat Akbar<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><font size=\"2\"><em>Starring: Max Attard, Denny Hodge, Nadi Kemp Sayfi, Keiren Hamilton-Amos and Aimee Powell<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><em><font size=\"2\"\/><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><font size=\"2\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A contemporary play set in the present day England, where charities\u00a0receive an average \u00a329 a month from British donors. Adam, a curious fundraiser, wants to know what compels us to donate, engage in charitable acts and if there is any truth in the claim that charity enriches the donor more than the beneficiary.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Based on the experiences, insights and challenges of British charity fundraisers and volunteers, Charity\u037e to give or not to give? aims to reveal the unique relationship between the donor and beneficiary, offering audiences an opportunity to explore \u2018charity\u2019 like never before.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Adam is a troubled young man who manages to come across to most people as fierce, ambitious and confident. \u00a0 After the sudden tragic death of his close friend, he retreats from his lavish lifestyle of being a nightclub owner and stumbles across a local soup kitchen where he is mistaken as a volunteer. \u00a0Whilst volunteering, he experiences inner happiness and for the first time a sense of fulfilment.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He decides to sell his night club \u00a0and volunteers in a local charity where he embarks on a journey to unravel \u2018charity\u2019 and why we choose to engage in charitable acts or donate to charity. \u00a0If \u00a0giving charity is a transaction like any other and not a hand out as we commonly believe, then \u00a0why aren\u2019t the non-monetary benefits to donors openly discussed and acknowledged? \u00a0 Adam explores the unique relationship between the donor and the beneficiary, hoping to find answers to all the questions haunting him since volunteering in the soup kitchen. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Due to his dedication and charisma, he soon becomes a successful charity fundraiser and is once again thrown into the limelight, travelling the world raising thousands of pounds for orphans, refugees and the hunger stricken. \u00a0But how can his life remain the same now that he has witnessed extreme poverty and injustice? \u00a0Once again, he struggles to find a sense of normality and balance. Meanwhile, tensions at home escalate between Adam and his father forcing him to confront the demons he has been running away from for so long, and thus finally taste the fruits of charity starting at home.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>TO BOOK TICKETS<\/strong>: <font face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/macbirmingham.co.uk\/event\/charity-to-give-or-not-to-give\/\">http:\/\/macbirmingham.co.uk\/event\/charity-to-give-or-not-to-give\/<\/a><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 August 2015 &#13; &#13; Sat 29 Aug &#13; 6.30pm &#13; Tickets \u00a315 &#13; Age 12+ &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Written and directed by Zayneb Khan &#13; Produced by Zeenat Akbar &#13; Starring: Max Attard, Denny Hodge, Nadi Kemp Sayfi, Keiren Hamilton-Amos and Aimee Powell &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A contemporary play set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}