Pictured: Anne Chmelewsky
A one woman operetta about social networking by acclaimed London
composer Anne Chmelewsky has raised more than £2,000 for
local brain tumour charity The Joseph Foote Trust.
The composer chose the Solihull-based charity after learning
about the support they had given to the family of a former school
friend Rochelle Bugg whose mother had been diagnosed with an
incurable brain tumour.
She said: "I only recently got back in touch with Rochelle
through reading her blog www.abuggslife.com
I am originally from France and moved to school in England aged
14 years. Although I hardly spoke any English, Rochelle's family
would take me in at weekends and introduced me to the British way
of life including curries, bowling and fish and chips!
"Rochelle lost her Dad to cancer when we were at school so the
news about her mother's diagnosis is even more devastating. I just
wanted to help and she asked me to fundraise for the Joseph Foote
Trust which has been phenomenal in the support they are giving her
and her sisters."
The operetta 'Through the Looking Screen' was performed to
capacity audiences at The Wilmington Arms pub in Farringdon London
last month (January).
In 2009 Anne raised £5,000 for Comic Relief with her
comedy 'The Office: The Opera'.
The Joseph Foote Trust was set up in 2001 by Solihull
businessman Andy Foote and his wife Judy after their son Joseph was
diagnosed with a brain tumour. He died in 2007 aged nine.
To date the charity has raised more than £2million to fund
research into brain tumours and support sufferers of the
disease.