Tonite! Fyre Youth Squad & Gris Gris Lab Benefits For Haiti!

Support Community & Help The Healers Heal NOLA & Haiti!

6-9 PM

Fyre Youth Squad presents the youth led event We Are Haiti at Warren Eastern High School 3019 Canal Street For more information haitiishome@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/updates.php?id=83532139869&sent=1&e=0#!/notes/gris-gris-lab/step-into-spring-with-gris-gris-lab/373394173019

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11 PM

Benefit for Cine Institute in Haiti, Moving Stories Performance Projects, and Gris Gris Lab!

Come out and spread the love from NOLA to HAITI by contributing your words and art on the graff wall that will be hanging up at the after party provided by Gris Gris Lab. The canvas will be taken to Haiti with organizations assisting in the relief effort.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=385490085002

Tonite! Spotlight on Haiti Benefit ft. MUTE MATH / 7PM @ Howlin' Wolf

Since MUTEMATH released its first EP in late 2004 and hit the road in 2005, their inherent nature has challenged limitations and expanded parameters. By the time of the 2006 self-titled debut, their blending of adverse genres into its own innovative sonically adventurous creation earned them a reputation as one of modern music’s most daring young groups. By 2007, they would find themselves Grammy nominated and declared by Alternative Press as “the #1 band you need to see live before you die.” But in the process of pushing boundaries even further for themselves, they almost pushed themselves out of existence. “It was a risk we had to take,” says King looking back on what they set out to accomplish for Armistice. “This record was by far the most painful music making experience I’ve ever had, but also the one I’m most proud of.”

MUTEMATH returns to New Orleans now for this special benefit concert to support long term Haitian Relief Efforts through the American Red Cross and Hope for Haiti Now.

They are also using this concert to introduce their latest song to fans. Along with the debut of the song, MUTEMATH will film the performance for a live video. Be sure to come out for your chance to be in the band’s next video creation!

Openers Include Le Safar, Sole Persuit & The National Rifle

Sat March 20th | $25 | 7pm | 18 & up

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=337609837034

JOYFUL To Host Gospel & Soul Benefit Concert For Haiti 4/9, Blue Nile

PRESS RELEASE

JOYFUL TO HOST CONCERT FOR HAITI

New Orleans 9th Ward gospel and soul group JOYFUL remembers all too well how they were affected by the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And, how long it’s taking the city of New Orleans to rebuild and recover from the 2005 storm.

Although, members of the group have already made a donation via their booking agency, Jamalar, they simply want to do more.

As a result, JOYFUL is hosting a free concert with all donations received given to the American Red Cross OR any one of a number of local grass roots organizations involved in Haiti’s relief efforts.

The show will be held at the Blue Nile located at 532 Frenchmen Street from 6 pm to 10 pm on Friday; April 9 and will feature a variety of New Orleans artists and musicians, which will be announced at a later date.

For more information contact us at 504-943-0353 or via email to jamalar@jamalaragency.com

Tonite! Hope For Haitian Children Fundraiser & NOLA Art Benefit For Haitian Artists

Dear NOLA-Haiti Solidarity,

Local support for justice in Haiti continues to soar!
Check out these events...

In Solidarity,
~Jennifer
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Hope for Haitian Children Fundraiser featuring Bill Summers, Alexi Marti, Mario Abney, Walter Ramsey, James Andrews & more
Current New Orleans Time: Sat, 3:36pm
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7:00pm
Venue: Sweet Lorraine's
Cash bar & dinner featuring Haitian cuisine
Performers include Bill Summers, Alexi Marti, Mario Abney, Walter Ramsey, James Andrews, local poets & more
All proceeds will benefit Foyer pour les Enfants Orphanage & Foyer pour la Renovation d'Haiti Orphanage (Port-au-Prince, Haiti).
http://www.wwoz.org/new+orleans+community/music+calendar/2010/03/06/78525+hope+haitian+children+fundraiser+featuring+bil
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Dear friends, fellow artists, and art lovers,
Barrister's Gallery (2331 St. Claude at Spain) will host a benefit for the artists and foundation workers of the Galerie Monnin in Petionville, Haiti, from March 6-9. We invite all artists of New Orleans (near and far) to donate a work of any dimension and media/material to be sold for between $25 and $100.
100% of sales will go to the Dallas Monnin Foundation, run by Gael Monnin (please see links below). She will distribute funds to about 150 gallery artists and foundation employees, in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Right now, the people of Haiti need essentials-- we are determined to keep Haiti and its people in our minds for the long road ahead. One way is for the artists of New Orleans to pass on the support and love of strangers we recieved in our time of need, in any way we can. We will organize more artist benefits down the road, but here is a great chance to connect in as personal way as possible to the artists and their families who need our help in many ways. For now, all we can do is find out how to send money and our respect, exactly what we needed immediately after Katrina and the floods (though of course it is more complicated than that). The show will open with an event on Saturday, March 6, from 6-9pm, and carry through Tuesday, March 9 at regular gallery hours (11am-5pm). The drop-off window to donate work will be from the end of carnival up until Thursday, March 4th. Please call me (504 908 4741) before you make a delivery. If your work does not sell at the benefit, please pick it up no later than Friday, March 12. We were able to work between two exhibitions at Barrister's and are grateful to Andy for being able to host this benefit; let's keep this this running as smoothly as possible. Work sold can go home with the buyer right away. Please pass this invitation on! I would also like to know about other arts & cultural groups in Haiti, and a good contact. Thank you, Myrtle von Damitz lll 504 908 4741
INFORMATION: Galerie Monnin: http://www.galeriemonnin.com/Artists.html Fondation Dallas Monnin: http://www.fondam-haiti.org/donate.html (The foundation is run by the Monnin family and is being used now for donations because their bank is inaccessible right now; funds transfers and donations access may change by March.)
Barrister's Gallery: http://www.barristersgallery.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253422289425&ref=mf
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ALSO:
7th Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
March 12-21, 2010
HAITI IS HOME: WE ARE HAITI
Fyre Youth Squad | Films | Music | Performance | Fundraiser | Free (Donations Encouraged)
Saturday | March 20 | 6pm | Warren Easton Senior High School
Illuminating the deep bonds between New Orleans and Haiti, past and present, while generating resources for Haitian people. Through story, dramatization, music, and dance we will understand more… Please bring ‘donations for Haitians’ such as needed material items, monetary contributions, and other forms of sustenance. The event will also facilitate personal letter-writing and have a kids’ zone on site.

HAITI: REVOLUTION, RECONSTRUCTION, RESTITUTION
Teach-In | Films | Discussion | Fundraiser
Saturday | March 12 | 2pm | Warren Easton Senior High School
Haiti’s history of revolution, occupation, and exploitation, the emerging shock doctrine the US and corporate partners have planned, and what the American Left can do to support Haitian-led reconstruction. With Max Rameau, Valery Jean, and Bill Quigley, and featuring video reports from Haiti’s Ciné Institute. 2pm.
http://patoisfilmfest.org/?page_id=728

http://nolahaitisolidarity.blogspot.com