Author: Area Performance

After the record auction on Catawiki in favor of the fight at Covid-19 (here you can find our article about it), the Area Performance, as promised, still made a donation of 5,000 euros to Emergency.

These funds will be used, as per agreements made in the previous months, for the Mayo Pediatric Center in Sudan. If you want to know more you can click here.

The delegate from the Emergency Lucca group is keen to let us know that:

We sincerely thank you for having, despite the current emergency, decided to continue to support Emergency’s activities which at this moment – as you may know – is also heavily engaged in Italy, as well as in the usual activities of fixed and mobile surgeries, in the special covid interventions 19.

If you want information on how Emergency has activated in Italy for the Covid-19 emergency go here.

Thanks to the funds raised in the auction on Catawiki, organized in collaboration with Lucca Comics & Games (here you can find the dedicated article), the first interventions have already been carried out.

In fact, the first panels for check points were installed at the Versilia Hospital. (see photo)

Thanks to these panels, operators can wear the simple mask and not the filtering one (difficult to find and therefore intended for COVID departments) – they explain to us from the management of the healthcare company.

If you missed the initiative you can review it on: Twich; Facebook; YouTube.

Our warmest thanks to all of you!

Given the recent events that are involving Italy (and the world), the Area Performance has decided to dedicate the annual online auction on Catawiki to the fight against Coronavirus.

As many of you will know, after the usual live auction at Lucca Comics & Games 2019, the ONLUS offers over 60 original plates of great artists, cartoonists, fantasy and science fiction illustrators.

Among these there is also a work donated directly to the fair by © Sergio Bonelli Editore, which for a couple of years has been collaborating generously with our initiatives.

This auction, which is usually in collaboration with Emergency and Collezionando, will raise funds for the Tuscan Healthcare System for the fight against Coronavirus.

Specifically, the funds raised will serve to enhance and regulate the access points (so-called check points) to hospital structures through the purchase and installation of panels that protect operators, thus relieving the hospital from purchasing protective masks and face shields , which would be destined only to hospital staff.

The auction will start on Friday 20 and end on Tuesday 31 March. To participate just register on the Catawiki website, click HERE to go directly to the auction. All this while staying at home, which we remind you, is the most important guideline to follow in this period.

Your support will be essential to help hospitals and especially the health personnel who are currently fighting for all of us.

However, this will not damage in any way the important Emergency projects for which the Area Performance Area will in any case donate € 5,000.

Record auction for Performance Area

As every year, during the festival, the world’s best known comics and fantasy artists were invited to paint and draw live and to donate their works, which were then auctioned by us since during the last day of Lucca Comics & Games.

This year was the twentieth year and therefore everyone, artists and supporters, were called to a test of special commitment. Proof that everyone has largely passed, showing a true big heart. In fact, the proceeds from the auction were record-breaking. A good € 34,832.62 collected, a figure that will be divided as last year between Emergency, the Community of Sant’Egidio and the pediatric ward of the Lucca Hospital.

As proof of the great commitment and support that has been shown to us, this year we received the works of over 100 masters of comics and fantasy as gifts, some of which were then auctioned online on the Catawiki website, which brought the total proceeds, together with the auction held in Lucca, for a record € 41,287.

The proceeds from the online auction (over € 6,000) will go entirely to Emergency, the humanitarian association founded in Milan in 1994 to bring help to the civilian victims of wars and poverty, in particular of the Mayo Pediatric Center in Sudan (here the link of the project).

A great year, a great edition and above all a big heart for all “our” artists, members, volunteers, supporters and donors.

Friday 4 May: appointment with the charity auction on Catawiki for the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the ONLUS, Area Performance offers original tables of great artists, cartoonists, fantasy and science fiction illustrators from all over the world in a charity auction.

All the works were carried out on the occasion of Lucca Comics & Games 2017 and the proceeds will be donated to the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan, a few kilometers from the capital Khartoum.

The structure offers care for children up to 14 years of age and was opened in 2005 by Emergency after a year of commitment and work in the area. Nonetheless, conditions within the camp are on the verge of survival.

According to the ranking of the United Nations Human Development Index, Sudan ranks 167th out of 188 countries due to armed conflicts that threaten the country’s security, continuous migration, poverty and conditions of child malnutrition.