ICEF Events: BJ FOoDiEs Dinner + Hutong Film Fundraiser
Posted: May 20th, 2014 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: Charity, Film & Movie Reviews, Foodies & Dining Scene, Upcoming Events | Tags: Chef Sue Zhou, Hunan, ICEF Rugby, Karaiya Spice House, New Zealand, Red White Black & Blue, Stuart Krohn, Sue Zhou Does Food, The Hutong, The Hutong Education | No Comments »Check Out Two Back-to-Back Events to Support ICEF Rugby!
Last year I had the pleasure of meeting the bright and inspirational kids who play for an inner city foundation in Los Angeles, California called ICEF Rugby as part of a Hutong education program. We spent a few days showing them Beijing highlights as part of a two-week China trip (Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong) for their rugby program in March 2013.
I was so impressed and moved by this group of students that we rallied all our friends in the rugby community and beyond to support China’s very first screening of their award-winning documentary, “Red White Black & Blue” which was filmed on the group’s previous international trip to New Zealand for a U16 tournament. A beautifully shot film, it showed the story of the team’s leaders and a few of the players who rise above their circumstances of growing up in the inner city, and travel abroad together to play rugby in a land where rugby is its national sport.
But now that the second film of the award winning Red, White, Black & Blue series is out (check out vimeo film trailer HERE), ICEF Founder and Rugby Coach Stuart Krohn is heading back to Beijing to support my two back-to-back fundraising events with proceeds being donated to ICEF Rugby.
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