event, A Night To Remember, featuring the premiere of Echo's
documentary film, In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel. The film chronicles
the journey of 12 Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school students as they
trace life experiences and formative environments of 1986 Nobel Peace
Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
Tickets ($65) may be purchased by calling the North Carolina
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center box office at 704.372.1000 or online
atwww.carolinatix.org. The event will be held at the Knight Theater
located at 430 South Tryon Street on September 21, 2010, at 6:00 p.m.
Seating begins at 5:30 p.m.
Produced by Indievision in association with Emulsion Arts, the
documentary features an introduction by Richard Gere, music by Cantor
Joseph Malovany and original score by Fred Story. Following the film,
Professor Wiesel will be joined by Echo Student Ambassadors in an on-
stage dialogue. Sandra and Leon Levine will also be honored as
recipients of the 2010 Echo Award Against Indifference.
Patrons' Ticket Packages are available for $3,000 per package, which
includes 10 film premiere/dialogue tickets, program recognition and
attendance at a post-premiere private reception at the Bechtler Museum
of Modern Art, honoring Professor Wiesel and Award Recipients Sandra
and Leon Levine. Individual Patron Tickets may also be purchased for
$250. All patrons will receive preferred seating at the film
premiere. To purchase Patron Tickets or the Patrons' Package, email CharlotteEchoes@aol.com
or call 704.347.3844.
Leading community philanthropists, Leon and Sandra Levine, will be
honored with the 13th annual Echo Award Against Indifference.Retired
Chairman and CEO of Bank of America and the 2005 Echo Award Against
Indifference recipient, Hugh McColl, Jr., will present the award to
Sandra and Leon Levine.
"Sandra and Leon Levine are the embodiment of the American dream,"
said Stephanie Ansaldo, president and founder of The Echo Foundation.
"Having worked to build a business and achieve success, they
demonstrate a profound moral responsibility by investing that success
to improve the lives of others. Leveraging their stature and
resources, they serve as catalysts for community development and
advocates for those in need."
Leon and Sandra Levine are the living example of Echo ideals,
consistently demonstrating an extraordinary commitment to the
community. They have a longstanding reputation for leadership in the
Charlotte region. With a powerful combination of business acumen,
compassion and responsibility, the Levines have been a driving force
behind the development of medical, religious, educational and arts
infrastructures across the community. Among the many institutions
that bear their name are the Levine Children's Hospital, Levine and
Dickson Hospice House, Shalom Park, UNC Charlotte, Levine Museum of
the New South, Levine Center for the Arts, Queens University, and
Central Piedmont Community College. In the wake of the financial
downturn, the Levines helped launch the Critical Need Response Fund, a
crucial source of support for those in need.
About The Echo Award Against Indifference
The Echo Award Against Indifference was established to honor a member
of the Mecklenburg County community who works "… with an eye towards
peace, a heart filled with compassion and a voice against
indifference, in order to remind our community of its highest
ideals." Previous recipients include the late Joe Martin, Bishop
George E. Battle Jr., the late Sister Mary Thomas Burke, former
Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, former UNC Charlotte Chancellor Dean
Colvard, former Bank of America Chairman Hugh McColl, Jr., developer
Howard C. "Smoky" Bissell, community volunteer Sally Dalton Robinson,
business and civic leaders, Alan and Stuart Dickson, and the civil
rights law firm Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumter.
About The Echo Foundation
The Echo Foundation was founded in 1997 to carry on the
message Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel brought to Charlotte that
year – a call to action for human dignity, justice and moral courage.
The Echo Foundation brings to Charlotte speakers and programs that
illustrate how one person can make a difference for humanity through
its Voices Against Indifference Initiative.
Previous Echo speakers include Partners in Health co-
founder Paul Farmer, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, Rwandan
Bishop John Rucyahana, African policy expert John Prendergast, Doctors
Without Borders founder and French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard
Kouchner, Harvard African and African-American Studies Department
Chairman Henry Louis Gates Jr., Columbia Earth Institute Director
Jeffrey Sachs, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, human rights advocate
Kerry Kennedy, and Chinese dissident Harry Wu. For more information
about The Echo Foundation, visit www.echofoundation.org.
