Charitable Performances
An essential part of Liona Boyd's personal philosophy is giving her time to a variety of charitable causes. Past charitable performances include:
- World Wildlife Fund
- American Cancer Society
- Help the Aged
- Variety and Leukemia Telethons (USA & Canada)
- The Weizmann Institute
- Mother Teresa's Hospice (Calcutta)
- Dixon Hall (Toronto's school for underprivileged children)
- Heart Institute (Vancouver)
- Israel Cancer Research Fund (Los Angeles)
- Para Los Niños (Mexico)
- Malibu Disaster Relief Fund
- Duke of Edinburgh Awards (Glasgow and Leeds)
- Friends of Sheba Medical Center
- Children's Environmental Health Fund
- Canadian Archeological Institute (Athens, Greece)
- Animal Protection League
- Walk on Water/Shake a Leg
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Famous quotes containing the words charitable and/or performances:
“For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)