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Windows on Pain: Our Second Year

Welcome to the Windows on Pain Campaign 2009!  

The first Windows on Pain in 2008 won the Fundraising Institute of Australia’s prestigious national annual award for Best Special Event of the Year, a great accolade and tribute to everyone involved.

Just to remind you, Windows on Pain is the fundraising and awareness campaign of the Pain Management Research Institute, Sydney, a leading world institute for research and treatment of severe persistent pain, the type of pain that restricts people’s lives to devastating effect.

The principal aims of the campaign are to raise the level of public awareness about the prevalence of severe pain and its wide reaching impact and to raise funds so that research can be accelerated and more people helped.

A staggering 3.2 million working-age Australians have this degree of pain at any time. The annual economic cost is about $34 billion. Research leads to better treatments all the time, but there’s still a long way to go.

Once again we’re asking for your generosity with your talents, skills, time and funds, and the goodwill and enthusiasm that made 2008 such a memorable first.  Windows on Pain is spreading its young wings this year, so we need your support more than ever.

 

Artist: Euan Macleod - "Smoking Landscape Triptych"
Acrylic on paper, 58 cm x 104.5 cm

 

 

Windows on Pain Group Art Show Tours This Year 

30 leading and emerging artists have committed to producing and donating an artwork on the broad theme of pain. 

They will interpret pain beyond the familiar stereotypes, in painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and installation and video works. You’ll see mature established artists and young emerging artists, all generous contributors to the cause.

Works by Euan Macleod, Tom Carment, Sam Leach, Michael Leunig, Jude Rae and William Yang will mix with young artists like Mai Long and Brown Council.  Come and see.

The works will exhibited at a number of venues before being auctioned at a fundraising dinner.

The Windows on Pain group art show will have its grand opening at the bold new Carriageworks Arts Centre in Redfern on Wednesday 6 May.

Then we take to the road from 12 May until 10 June to the North Shore’s Ewart Gallery, Gosford Regional Art Gallery and Riverside Theatre at Parramatta, well-known popular galleries in their communities.

<< Pic: Aquamutt blue – Mai Long

Auction at the Art Gallery

After touring, the works will be auctioned on Friday 12 June at a dinner for 300 supporters in the Art Gallery of NSW. What better place for this than the splendid gallery forecourt, framed by masterworks and the Harbour? We would like to see you there.

<< Pic: Realisation of Self - Tobias clack

Windows on Pain Day

Once again we are further promoting our cause by selling the lovely Windows on Pain badges as widely as we can.  This year’s statewide awareness day will be on Friday 5 June.

The ANZ Bank is selling the badges at every branch in NSW and the ACT and they are supporting us in other generous ways.

Volunteers will be selling in the city, parts of country NSW, workplaces, shopping centres, hospitals, railway stations, parks and anywhere else that we can place a box of badges.

The campaign will be widely promoted by the Cumberland Newspaper Group and our pro bono PR agency, Reputation will be encouraging other media to carry stories about our artists and pain patients and further extend our capacity to

 

Sponsors and supporters

We are very fortunate to have the continued support of many of the organizations and individuals who helped us with the 2008 Windows on Pain campaign.

Apart from ANZ Bank’s support, Reckitt Benckiser has again agreed to make a substantial donation to our costs and will help in other useful ways with Windows on Pain Day. 

The Cumberland Newspaper Group is supporting us by carrying stories about Windows on Pain artists and pain patients across the 28 titles in their group – from the Central Coast Express to the Liverpool Leader to the North Shore Times.  We will be cross promoting each other via our websites.

Reputation, a major Public Relations agency, is providing us with promotional and communications support up to and during the campaign. 

Creative Zoo is again managing our www.windowsonpain.org website and updating it as well as adding all the links and embedding Youtube stories.
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