Jeremy Irons was the host of Superjam 2011, in aid of the Sunflower Jam Charity, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England on Friday 8 July 2011. Max Irons and Sinead Cusack were also in attendance.
For over 100 utterly stunning photos from the event (including a couple of Jeremy) check out Gabrielle McMillan Photography.
Jeremy Irons attended a charity concert organized by the Federation Charity in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 9, 2011.
Famous Faces Get Arty
From artists to athletes, and actors to explorers, we are extremely grateful to all of our Famous Faces. Each one of them has generously lent their time and support to Face Britain because they passionately believe that all young people should have the opportunity to be inspired by the arts.
Our Famous Faces will be creating their very own self portraits for Face Britain. So to see a self portrait by Quentin Blake, Amir Khan, Jeremy Irons and everyone else involved, keep coming back to Facebritain.org.uk!
A Ralph Lauren POLO tie once owned by English Bafta Nominated and Academy Award winning Actor Jeremy Irons has been donated to the Sellebrity UK online auction site, in support of The Prince’s Trust charity.
It comes with a Prince’s Trust card hand written and again personally signed by him. The card has a short explanation as to where Jeremy wore it.
The tie is personally signed by Jeremy on the inside.
This item is donated in support of The Prince’s Trust
Friday 8th July 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall in London…
The Sunflower Jam will transform The Royal Albert Hall for one night, raising the auditorium floor close to the level of The Grand Loggia boxes to create a large dance floor right in front of the stage.
Guest will be welcomed with a champagne reception followed by a fantastic supper, catered by Paul Clerehugh from the Crooked Billet and Rhubarb, served to your table.
The UK’s number one dance team from Pineapple Dance Studio will be strutting their stuff for all to enjoy along side some wonderfully weird acts and if you have ever been to a Jam before, you will know what we mean.
Jeremy Irons will take to the stage again this year to host the evening.
We will be presenting one of the largest and most impressive Silent Auctions ever, during the course of the evening’s entertainment. Autographs of the World will be co-coordinating and running this for and there will be something for everyone whatever the depth of your pocket or breadth of your interest!
And this is all before the gig has even begun!!!
Music from amazing musicians set the scene for a glorious night of relaxed entertainment and the opportunity to experience a unique gathering of some of music’s legendary names, up close and personal, in arguably the world’s favorite venue.
Artists appearing:
Dress Code: Smart casual – No suits or ties!
Date: Friday 8th July
Time: Public Doors open at 20:15
Call: 0844 847 2450
Email: info@thesunflowerjam.com
Visit: royalalberthall.com
For box dining in the exclusive Grand Tiers or Loggias please contact the Royal Albert Hall corporate team on 020 7959 0607 or email entertain@royalalberthall.com
These additions have just been posted on the Charities page.
This information is nothing NEW, but it’s worth mentioning again…
Jeremy supports Freeing the Human Spirit and the Prison Phoenix Trust.
Freeing the Human Spirit is a National Not-for-Profit Registered Charity which provides inmates with a program of meditation and yoga. Meditation and yoga are ancient ways of creating internal silence leading to a feeling of peace. Jeremy Irons is an honorary patron. See the ON STAGE page for more on Jeremy’s efforts to support the chairity.
The ability to not judge others is a rare, but admirable, trait.
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons describes his Canadian friend and mentor Sister Elaine MacInnes – an 83-year-old Catholic nun and Zen master – as one of the most non-judgmental persons he has ever had the fortune to meet. “I’ve only met four or five amazing people in my life, and she is one.”
Zen brings quiet solitude to solitary
What an interesting woman – Sister Elaine MacInnes
Freeing the Spirit…Through Meditation and Yoga – paperback at Amazon.com
Jeremy Irons is a patron of The Prison Phoenix Trust.
The Prison Phoenix Trust encourages prisoners in their spiritual lives through meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath.
They offer individual support to prisoners and prison staff through teaching, correspondence, books and newsletters. People of any faith or no faith can benefit. They honour all religions.
The Prison Phoenix Trust was registered as a charity in 1988. They work all over the UK and The Republic of Ireland in prisons, young offender institutions, immigration removal centres, secure hospitals and probation hostels.
A key aspect of our work is training and supporting qualified yoga teachers to teach in prison and other secure conditions.
Scroll down for photos and the text of what Jeremy read at the event…
Actor Jeremy Irons attended a royal charity gala dinner on Tuesday evening (01Feb11) as part of a campaign to encourage children to take an interest in the arts.
The Oscar winner is a supporter of The Prince’s Trust Foundation for Children and the Arts, which aims to give youths more opportunity to develop life skills by participating in poetry, painting and music. And Irons will be mixing with royalty at a gala dinner at Buckingham Palace to raise awareness of the cause.
Irons tells Britain’s The One Show, “We’re having an evening celebrating a charity of the Prince of Wales, a children and the arts charity which encourages and gives opportunity to children who are – either because of geographical… or because of financial reasons – they don’t have any access during their education to do anything artistic. Whether it be painting or theater or poetry or whatever…I was very lucky, I was at school and we had art classes, we had poetry classes, we had music classes, I learnt to do all those things naturally… What this charity does is to bring together local arts organizations and local schools and allow children to learn to paint, to write poetry, to stand on stage and be in a play… I’ve always argued that arts are terribly important for education and we’re foolish to cut them… you’re training them for life.”
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(UKPA) – 2 February 2011
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have been given a preview of new West End musical The Wizard of Oz.
Star of the show Danielle Hope, who landed the role of Dorothy after winning a BBC talent contest last year, sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow for the Prince and the Duchess.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical starts preview shows at the London Palladium next week.
Hope, who performed for the royal couple at a gala for The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts on Tuesday night, said: “It was just magical to perform tonight, it was like the preview of the preview.
“I am really excited about the start of the show.”
The gala dinner, which was held at Buckingham Palace, was attended by supporters of the charity which helps disadvantaged children in the UK to gain access to the arts.
Charles and Camilla also heard a reading by comedian Rowan Atkinson.
Atkinson, who recited Roald Dahl’s “witty and wicked” critique of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, said: “Going to the theatre is a communal experience rather than the singular experience you get on a computer. Self serving content is good but you do not get to share the joy that you do in a theatre.”
Other performers at the black-tie event, which was held in the ballroom of the Palace, included tenor Alfie Boe and actor Jeremy Irons who read Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 128” and DH Lawrence’s “Piano”.
After the performance, Charles met the performers including Alex Jennings – famed for his role as the Prince of Wales in the 2006 drama The Queen. The Prince, who is the foundation’s president, told those gathered for the gala that the charity did an excellent job to encourage young people to experience the arts.
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How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway’st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap,
At the wood’s boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
And situation with those dancing chips,
O’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more blest than living lips.
Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,
Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.
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Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
1918
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Jeremy Irons was a guest on BBC 1’s The One Show on 31 January 2011. He was there to promote The Prince’s Trust Charity for Children and the Arts.
He was interviewed by Alex Jones and Matt Allwright. He spoke a bit about The Lion King, Kilcoe Castle and The Prince’s Trust.
Thank you to Aliz for the video clips and screen-caps!
Internationally renowned actor Jeremy Irons explains why he’s given his full support to Evidence for Development and why their work is so crucially important.
To donate go to www.justgiving.com/evidencefordevelopment or find out more by going to www.evidencefordevelopment.com
31thirtyone is a charitable photographic project with the aim to take 31 portraits in as many days. this year, all the photographs will take place during august. this will prove to be not only a logistical, but a photographic challenge too.
the resulting photographs will be put together as a physical and online exhibition, running concurrently later in the year. there will be a limited number of prints of each portrait, plus a special one-off signed, mounted & framed copy, which will be put on public auction.
all proceeds from these sales will be donated to this year’s nominated charity – crohns & colitis UK (NACC)
Here’s what photographer Matt Humphrey had to say in his blog about his photo shoot with Jeremy and Sinead:
” full of surprises
August 23, 2010
last week finished on an absolute high, after successfully fitting in 3 sittings on the friday to take my tally to 19. the late addition of jeremy irons was a great surprise, and a fantastic addition to the project. he and sinead cusack were also wonderful hosts when i visited their home in the country and, having made my trip out there, they made sure i returned not only with some great shots but laden with supplies for the journey and a bag full of vegetables! the whole experience was such a pleasure, and one that i feel honoured to have shared with them. ”
Learn more and see the other portraits at www.31thirtyone.com
Sinead Cusack was also photographed for the 31thirtyone project:
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