Edinburgh Rotary Club is hosting a Special Charity Screening of the film “Breathe” at the Dominion Cinema on Monday 23rd October at 7.00pm.
Andy Serkis’s film which opened the 2017 BFI London Film Festival earlier this week stars Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy is based on a true story. The supporting cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander, Stephen Manganese’s and Diana Rigg.
Tickets are £25 each and obtainable from Benet Marcos (bmarcos@socialancer.com). Your ticket entitles you to a welcoming drink on arrival, a chance to examine an “Iron Lung” ventilator of the type that polio victims with respiratory paralysis lived in (for a greater or lesser time) and a Purple4polio ice-cream.
There will be a brief talk from one of the club members who survived polio, a short film about Rotary’s quest to eliminate polio worldwide and the film “Breathe”which will start at approximately 8.00pm.
The event is being held on the eve of World Polio Day on Tuesday 24th October and aims to raise funds for Rotary’s Polio Plus Fund and raise public awareness of polio, how close we are to eliminating it completely and the need for further funding to continue worldwide immunisation until the world is totally free of the disease.
If Rotary International is successful in doing this then polio will be only the second human disease ever to be eliminated completely in the world – the first was smallpox.
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