Let's check out the progress on the building site of our Grand Finale studio which is being erected at the very heart of our capital city of Warsaw. The vibrantly designed temporary studio, which will be housed by a large tent, will become the very hotspot of the activity on the day of the fundraiser. Both the telethon and concerts will be broadcast live on the Internet and TV from this location.
The studio's dimensions are 2 600 m2. The main feature of the carefully designed set will be 1000 light points (and we mean massive led screens), which will create a vibrant (and bright!) backdrop for the telethon and concerts. Outside the studio, and visible for all passersby, will be a pyramid created out of screens. It will allow members of the public to peek inside the tent and to find out what's going on on the inside. 80 trucks will be used to haul all the equipment necessary to construct this temporary sudio. It comes as no surprise that the tent and equipment are estimated to weigh 140 tonnes.
Safety first!
The crew working on-site at the studio will be taken care of by two ER teams, two doctors, and two teams of fully equipped first responder teams. All people working at the studio - musicians, production team, and guests will go through mandatory coronavirus testing, fill in a medical questionnaire and have their temperature checked. We liaise closely with all relevant medical services and health & safety authorities signed off on our event.
On 22 May – nearly 4 months after the January fundraiser and 2 months after revealing the final result of the collection – the GOCC Foundation commences the 66th Open Tender to buy medical equipment for 169 laboratories across the country. The stakes are high!
As you already know, we play with everyone and for everyone. What is more, in Warsaw we play in a totally new location! For the first time ever the heart of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will be beating at the PGE Narodowy meadows.
Five days before the 32nd Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, we visited the 'Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka' (Children's Memorial Health Institute) to ceremoniously inaugurate the first Ophthalmic Simulation Laboratory in Europe dedicated exclusively to the field of peadiatric ophthalmology.
