Country music singer and humanitarian Kenneth “Big Kenny” Alphin made a pit stop at ETSU on Thursday to meet the first two ASPIRE Appalachia scholarship winners and speak about his work in Haiti and Sudan. Part of the “Leading Voices in Public Health” lecture series, Alphin’s talk centered around his personal motto – “love everybody.
People and art come first … money second.” This is the philosophy of Haitian-born Boulderite Rico Changeux, dancer and owner of Streetside Dance Studio.
NEW YORK: Accomplished Chinese young pianist Lang Lang and his collaborators held a fundraising concert on Sunday night to support UNICEF’s quake relief efforts in quake-torn Haiti.
&$ &$Chinese pianist Lang Lang performs Chopin’s “Polonaise in A Flat major, Opus 53″ at an Apple store in New York, the United States, March 19, 2010. Lang Lang performed here on Friday to raise money for Haitian children suffering from the devastating earthquake. (Xinhua/Wu Kaixiang)&$ &$ Accomplished Chinese young pianist Lang Lang and his collaborators held a fundraising concert on Sunday …
Three employees at the House of the Good Shepherd in Hackettstown directly impacted by the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile are (from left) Jose Sandoval, Maria Vicencio, Eliezard Dessalines. HACKETTSTOWN — The earthquake disasters in Haiti and Chile hit…
Back by popular demand, A.J.’s Music Café in Ferndale hosts Assembly Line II, a music marathon to support U.S. automakers and raise money for charity. The event aims to break the 288 hours of continuous music at A.J.’s that set a Guinness record in a rally for government assistance to General Motors and Chrysler last year.
Rebecca Achenbach remembers seeing CNN footage of Haitian children amid the rubble left by the devastating earthquake that hit the country in January.They were singing.”I remember the commentators saying that there was such joy in the midst of all this trouble,” she says.When she turned off the TV, …
WASHINGTON TWP. – The January earthquake in Haiti claimed hundreds of thousands of victims and it also destroyed much of the island’s rich, native artwork.
mmit Medical Group opens an art show on its campus at 1 Diamond Hill Road, Berkeley Heights, on Friday, April 16, with a reception free to the public, 5 to 8 p.m. “Hope Springs Eternal: A Rebirth of Haiti Through Art,” is a fundraiser that features paintings by Haitian-born artists now living in the U.S. A portion of the proceeds will be donated for Haitian relief through the LANBI Center for …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — The United Nations and the Haitian government are poised to begin an intense public awareness campaign in the capital city, part of an urgent effort to move hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake out of harm’s way before the rain and flood…