Showing posts with label Bob Geldof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Geldof. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

NEWS - 5

Salus Alpha Helps to Make Sean Penn's Charity Dinner During the Cannes Film Festival a Success

VIENNA, Austria, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Salus Alpha, a leading fund manager in alternative investments, sets a focus. Salus Alpha connects the world's biggest film festival with charity and takes the chance to make stars aware of a "different world" a world besides the shine & glamour.

As one of the main hosts of the charity dinner "Sean Penn & Friends" on the 18th May 2011, Salus Alphadonated in favor of Sean Penn's charity organization J/P HRO. This event took place in the Carlton Hotel inCannes and attracted high-profile stars. Guests like Uma Thurman, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Naomi Campbell, Robert de Niro & Leonardo DiCaprio made the evening unforgettable and contributed significantly to the success of this charity dinner.

The main initiators of the evening, who generously supported Sean Penn's charity project, were Oliver Prockfrom Salus Alpha, Jaka Bizilj from Cinema for Peace, Ella Krasner, Roberta Armani and Maybach.

During the evening Mr. Sean Penn held an emotive speech, pointing to Haiti's ongoing catastrophic conditions at the same time providing the guests with first positive results of the reconstruction efforts.

"This is a project that needs everyone's aid. We will try to support J/P HRO in the future, and pass on to it our success - capital needs a conscience," said Mr. Oliver Prock, Salus Alpha's CEO.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

NEWS - 2

Bob Geldof guest at Vienna Opera Ball

The musicians and two times Nobel Peace Prize-nominated human rights activist Bob Geldof will attend the Vienna Opera Ball.
Vienna - In front of the Opera Ball will Bob Geldof Chancellor Faymann (S) will meet, communicated the supervisors of the Promi visit. The Britisher is accompanied of the Egyptian actor Khaled Nabawy, which engages itself for the revolution in its homeland.

The artist and volume Aid initiator come on invitation of Olive Prock, CEO of the Investment Company Salus Alpha. Also with its forthcoming Vienna visit wants it is request - assistance for humans in developing countries - in consciousness to move. Behind it the network stands of Daniela Tröster and Karl Pumper of power OF Hope. The platform had brought only recently Hollywoodstar Sean Penn to Vienna, who had recruited for its Haiti aid project.

Bob Geldof is expected Wednesday evening in Vienna. Thursday afternoon is to come he on invitation Faymanns into the Office of the Federal Chancellor. Afterwards o'clock a dinner in the small circle takes place at 18.30. At the red carpet before the state opera the musician is expected at 21.00 o'clock, of where he will go into the Opernball Loge of Salus Alpha.

Geldof was main initiator of the project volume Aid and the world-wide Benefiz concerts Live Aid 1985, volume Aid II and volume Aid 20 in the years 1989 and 2004 in favor of that being hungry population of Africa. Since center of the 1990er years exerts itself it with Bono of U2 for the debt forgiveness for the third world. 2005 it organized the Live-8-Konzert. Because of its humanitarian commitment he was already seen again suggested to 2006 into the 1980er years as a candidate for the Nobel peace prize and for it. (APA)