Brunei Writers And Artists To Join Tsunami Charity Fund-Raising
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Brunei, writers and artists are set to rally together to show their solidarity, sympathy and care towards contributing to the tsunami victims through a project to be launched on February 8 at the Sarmayuda Hall, DBP, Berakas at 9am.

Sid Zaleha Hj Kaprawi, the DBP's Public Affairs Officer, said the charity project will include sales of books, magazines, and the publication of a book comprising incidents of tsunami as well as poems by local poets, illustrations and tsunami songs, and anthology of poems by poets, whose proceeds will be donated to the fund.

She added that the sale of books would be held from February 8 to 19 at DBP, Berakas.

The sale will then be continued during the 10-day Book Fair 2005 at the Indoor Stadium, Hassanal Bolkiah Sports Complex, Berakas, which will start on February 25.

Local writers, artists and composers will again give free contributions for the publication of the book, which will be sponsored by 5 local printers.

The proceeds from the sale of books will go to the Tsunami Humanitarian Disaster Fund.

At the February 8 launch, local VIPs who are literature activists will also be reciting their poems, apart from contributing their literary works for the tsunami book.

Ustaz Hj Ismuhadi of Pusat Dakwah Islanuah, Ministry of Religious Affairs, will also deliver a religious talk on tsunami.

Siti Zaleha said local artists would also sell their art works during the launch towards the tsunami fund.

She said the scale of devastation that resulted from the earthquake and tsunami in many nations of the northern Indian Ocean, and especially in Aceh, has caught the sympathy of DBP, its writers and artists.

"The sheer number of lives lost have left much of us in a state of deep personal anguish and psychological stress.

"DBP, its writers and artists also wish to join the massive assistance given by individuals, civil societies, corporations, international organisations and governments around the world to help the victims.

"It may not be much but it is our own way of contributing towards the fund and help in the reconstruction," she added. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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