“Sing for Sight: Retina France Association’s Concert for Ophthalmic Medical Research”

2023-05-20 11:01:00

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A concert is organized by the Retina France association in Auch on Saturday June 3 at 3:30 p.m. Proceeds from the event will be used to fund ophthalmic medical research.

Sing to fund medical research. This is what three vocal ensembles will do this Saturday, June 3 at 3:30 p.m. in the Sainte-Bernadette church in Auch. A concert organized by the Retina France association in partnership with Sacem. Volunteer choirs who will put their voices to the benefit of research. First, there will be the vocal ensemble Mel-I Melo-O, with Jean Labelle as choir director. The choir L’air du temps from the CRSA (Club of retired sportsmen from Auscita) will also be there, with Jeannine Broseta as choir director, accompanied on the piano by Christope Bouhier.

This national operation is part of the fight once morest AMD (age-related macular degeneration). A concert that brings together between 50 and 300 people each year according to Ghislaine Garric, correspondent and administrator Retina France Gers. “With this concert, we want to make people aware of this little-known eye disease, AMD, with its so-called dry atrophic form and its so-called wet exudative form”, indicates Ghislaine Garric.

The vocal ensemble La cour des filles, also directed by Jean Labelle, will sing in this church. For this 2023 edition, Ruben Velasquez, Spanish tenor, will be the sponsor. Admission will be free with a donation of eight euros recommended for the benefit of medical research in ophthalmology. Donations and memberships to Retina France are made by check to the association which will issue a tax receipt next.

195 members of Retina France in the Gers

The association has existed since 1984 and acts to raise people’s awareness of sight problems and also offers various charity events where funds are donated to medical research. Thanks to these different actions, the association makes itself known and raises money to help those in need.

“At the moment we are quite optimistic and we have a lot of hope because we have learned that a treatment might arrive on the market to stop the evolution of AMD”, says the correspondent and administrator of the association at the local level. . According to her, Retina France receives more and more requests and that is why she participates each year in conferences and various actions.

On June 16, the Retina France association is organizing a screening at the town hall of L’Isle-Jourdain with Dr. Sennlaub, researcher at Inserm.

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