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Tributes paid to Roanne Dods

Graham Leicester remembers producer, dancer and founding Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation Roanne Dods, who sadly died last week. 

Frances Richens
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I was saddened to learn of the death earlier this week of my friend and long-time IFF member and collaborator Roanne Dods. She passed away after a long illness at the untimely age of 51.

Conventionally we talk about a ‘battle’ or a ‘fight’ against cancer.  But Roanne faced death, as she faced life, not only with a strong and feisty spirit but with an openness to wonder, beauty and learning. I last saw her in June, working her way through a terminal diagnosis, sifting real from false hope, maintaining a pattern of life and love and work in the face of uncertainty… Keep reading on International Futures Forum