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Easy Sunday :: Horns for Haiti New Orleans Benefit
Documentary screening + Potluck
Sunday, January 31st - Doors at 5pm, Screening at 7pm
La Maison - Upstairs
508 Frenchmen St.
The Other Side of the Water
:: The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The journey of this unlikely band offers a unique insight into the Haitian-American experience -- a rare glimpse into a world of music, spirituality, and cultural activism.
Part-carnival, part-vodou ceremony, and grassroots protest, “Rara” is one of the most breathtaking and contested forms of music in the Americas. Rara originally served as a voice of the slaves in their revolt against the French, and as the voice of those struggling against ongoing dictatorships in Haiti. This documentary follows the journey of DJARARA – the only sustained rara band in America – through a hidden New York landscape of vodou temples, underground economies, violent politics, and ground-shaking music.
$10 suggested donation for screening + a plate
$3 sorrel and rum drinks
Food and artistic contributions also welcome
::: DJs Tall Jamal and Finger Prince spinning the Island and West African sounds before and after
:::: All money to benefit Haiti's Earthquake Disaster victims.
50% to Doctors Without Borders + 50% the event's Haitian performers with family in Haiti right now. One band member lost 10 family members. Almost everyone lost homes.
"Men anpil, chay pa lou." [With many hands the load is lighter.]
For more information, contact:
Kevin F. Mason
kevinfmason@gmail.com
Chefs Chefs Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing of MiLa are making an effort to assist in the Haiti relief effort.
For a limited time, half of the proceeds from the purchase of select glasses, half bottles and bottles of wine will benefit the American Red Cross' efforts in Haiti. MiLa is the culmination of both the marriage of chefs Slade Rushing and Allison Vines-Rushing
and their respective home states cuisines-Mississippi and Louisiana. With a seasonal menu driven by fresh picked produce from Lujele Farms, MiLa delivers a new style of Southern fare with a lighter touch using French techniques in an elegant yet relaxed setting in downtown New Orleans. MiLa is located in the heart of the New Orleans CBD in the Renaissance Pere Marquette.
817 Common Street - 504-412-2580
West Jefferson Medical Center Launched Haiti Relief Drive
The Auxiliary at West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero is raising money to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti starting Thursday. Hospital volunteers are seeking financial donations from West Jefferson employees and the public during a drive over the next several days. The collected funds will be given to the American Red Cross and earmarked for the Haiti relief effort, the hospital announced. Contributions may be made via check, cash or through a payroll deduction for West Jefferson employees. Donations will be collected from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the following days and in the following locations: Thursday and Friday in the atrium; Monday and Tuesday in the Physicians Center lobby; Jan. 27 in the atrium; Jan. 28 in Physicians Center lobby. Donations also will be collected from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in the Physicians Center lobby.
Tammany students, Slidell Police Pitching In To Help Haiti-
Effort coupled with Saints fever
Slidell police and Slidell Memorial Hospital kicked off a fundraising drive Friday (1/22) morning to benefit Operation Blessing, a group that arrived in the area several days after Katrina to provide food, medical attention and even assistance removing tree limbs from houses. The group is on the ground in Haiti now and just finished setting up a water- purification system at one of the country's hospitals, Drennan said. Anyone who wants to donate can bring checks to the Slidell Police Department, 2112 Sgt. Alfred Drive, or to the hospital's Human Resources Department at 1111 Gause Blvd. Members of the Police Department will also be collecting checks, and Drennan said anyone who wants to donate can just "flag down an officer." Because of the nature of the fundraising drive, officers will not be accepting cash donations, Slidell police spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz said. Mandeville Middle School will also hold a garage sale next weekend to benefit the fundraising effort.
FULL ARTICLE:
Subject: UNO Rapid Response: Haiti Begins Its Campaign
UNO Rapid Response: Haiti has an open meeting on Wednesday (01/27/2010) at MH 268 at 3 pm to plan the actions and events in order to assist the humanitarian efforts in Haiti. Please attend the meeting to share your inputs and concerns. You are invited to bring your friends too.
Press Release from UNO Rapid Response: Haiti
01/18/2010
UNO students, motivated by the need to act now to address Haiti's need, convened a meeting on Saturday, Jan 16 in the Education Building. The meeting has planned a course of actions which will begin on Tuesday, Jan 19. As Phase I, we decided to launch a SAVE HAITI campaign by first collecting funds to be channeled to the Red Cross, Haitian Association for Human Development and Doctors Without Borders. Our immediate plan is to recruit student volunteers to work at collection tables outside the library, Student Union, Kirschman Hall and Ed Building. The tables will provide updates on the humanitarian efforts in Haiti as well as information on how to provide financial assistance to help those efforts. As an extension to Phase I, we are considering the possibility of organizing benefit dinner and relief concerts to raise more money, and also blood donation program to facilitate the medical situation in Haiti. We will later extend the effort to include clothes and food collection as the situation in Haiti permits such delivery. We formed several sub-committees, one being a financial committee in charge of counting the money at the end of the day, purchasing a money order and mailing the funds to the respective organizations. If any organization and/or individual is already involved in humanitarian efforts in Haiti please let us know. All actions taken will be represented by 'UNO Rapid Response,' not any particular organization. This is to promote the coordinated efforts by UNO students. We welcome any suggestions or caveats. We also call for volunteers to assist in this campaign. Please contact Lindsey McCann, Public Relations Coordinator, at lemccann@uno.edu for more information. You can also stop by MH 237 should you have any inputs/questions. UNO Rapid Response: Haiti
ALSO:
In our first phase, that begins today, we are collecting money to be donated to Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and Haitian Association for Human Development. We are also considering benefit dinners, relief concerts and other fundraisers to collect money. We have already collected $200 in our first hour today! Haitian Association for Human Development will take a ship to provide relief to Haiti in near future, and we will focus our campaign for material donations once we have concrete information. UNO Rapid Response: Haiti is not organization-specific; we have more than 12 UNO student organizations collaborating so far, and we hope it will increase as we move ahead. As mentioned, we need organizations to commit time and resources. We are planning to organize tables in the UC, Library, Education Bldg., and Kirschman Hall. Your organization can coordinate tables, organize bake-sales, donate blood, and also volunteer time to get more fundraisers. This whole campaign shall be represented ‘UNO Rapid Response: Haiti’ in order to reflect the collective action of UNO Student Body. We can work out the details of the partnership.
For UNO Rapid Response: Haiti
NewOrleansHaiti.org
The Haitian New Orleanian community is resilient and strong. From the West bank to the East bank, to Harvey and Gretna, news and updates of our loved ones have poured in since the earthquake.
There have been stories of joy—friends who’ve survived. There have been stories of death. Nearly all of us have had a cousin or friend, brother or aunt pass on. In some instances, it has been mothers or fathers, daughters or sons.
There are nearly 6,000 New Orleanians of Haitian descent. Never before have we felt like more a family. We have tough days ahead.
As New Orleanians and Haitians, we can’t thank our local community enough for the outpouring of generosity and support. This website will serve as our virtual home base. Through NewOrleansHaiti.org, our New Orleanian Hatian community will know when the next prayer service is or which local non-profit is offering counseling and grieving services. The community can also find local churches and international aid organizations that are accepting donations.
And as we know with our recovery in New Orleans, this work will not be done quickly or easily.
With great thanks to the New Orleans creative and tech community who produced and created this website for us in one day. The controls are over us, we’re trained to create pages and blog posts. We’re eager to let all of New Orleans know the stories of our fallen nation, the stories of its survivors and the story of us—New Orleanian Haitians.
Contact us:
nolahaiti@gmail.com
Keep up the great community mobilisation & organizing, friends!
In solidarity,
~Jennifer
