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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">I’m writing to ask you to consider donating to a cause I feel is a good one.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">A few years ago my former teacher, theatre director, actor and master teacher of acting Richard Fowler, lost all of his frontal vision to a condition called macular degeneration. This has
made him dependent on others for assistance and ended both his artistic career and his work as a professional translator.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">For those of you who might not know Richard, he is a Canadian actor who in the late 1970s travelled to Europe to work with the great mid-century theatrical modernists. He was a part of
Jerzy Grotowski’s para-theatrical research in Poland. He then joined Eugenio Barba’s Danish company Odin Teatret where he worked as an actor and teacher for a decade. Theatre scholars will know him as the English-language translator of Eugenio Barba and Nicola
Savarese’s <i>The Secret Art of the Performer: A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology</i> and Eugenio Barba’s <i>The Paper Canoe</i>. He returned to Canada in the late 1980s to teach at the National Theatre School. There he founded Primus Theatre with a group
of his former students. His influence on contemporary Canadian theatre practice is decisive.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">This summer a group of us comprised of Richard’s friends and former students found an amazing invention online, the eSight glasses. This device consists of a camera that projects frontal
images into tiny screens on the glasses that are positioned to be visible in the wearer’s peripheral vision. We brought Richard to Ottawa this summer to try out the glasses. Wearing them he saw his friends’ faces clearly for the first time in years.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">These glasses cost $15,000.00 Canadian and we’ve started an online funding campaign to raise money to purchase them for Richard.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">If you have a moment and can contribute, even the most modest amount will move us towards the purchase of this extraordinary device. If you are not able to contribute please do consider
forwarding this message to those who might be interested.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://igg.me/at/bk5GgTIRc-Y" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,233)">http://igg.me/at/bk5GgTIRc-Y</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">There’s also more information about Richard and his situation on the site.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you very much,</span></p>
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<div><i>Université d’Ottawa</i></div>
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