Arthur's Day

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Arthur's Day

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity / Observance

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Explanation


Arthur's Day refers to a series of music events which were first organised in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Guinness brewing company by its owner Diageo plc.



Those events took place internationally in the cities of Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, New York and Yaoundé on 23 September 2009. The event was broadcast internationally on Sky TV, ITV2 and DirecTV.
€6 million has been pledged to the Arthur Guinness Fund.
The celebration has been endorsed by several high-profile names, such as rock star-turned political activist Bob Geldof, director and screenwriter Guy Ritchie, footballer and Guinness football ambassador for Africa Michael Essien and British celebrities such as Peter Crouch, Sophie Dahl.

Guinness drinkers are expected to raise a glass to the memory of Arthur Guinness at 17:59 (5:59 pm), a reference to 1759, the year the Guinness Brewery was established.. An 82c stamp of an Arthur Guinness portrait was also released by An Post to commemorate the anniversary.

Arthur's Day 2012 took place on 27 September.
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Arthur Guinness
(1724 or 1725 – 23 January 1803)
was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. He was also an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist.




At 27, in 1752, Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000 year lease on the 4-acre (16,000 m2) brewery at St. James's Gate from Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45.
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Arthur's Day --
writing a haiku
for this black world

The colour scheme for Arthur's Day is predominantly black, being the colour of Guinness.

Isabelle Prondzynski






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Arthur's Day -
'Cheers' says each one
across the world

Dr. Kumarendra Mallick


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