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Last Friday evening, too, artists as diverse as the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, the Harvard Caribbean Dance Team, and the Harvard Glee Club gathered in Sanders Theatre for the “Harvard for Haiti” benefit concert. The event, whose proceeds were given to Partners in Health (PIH), also featured a slate of speakers including PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl. Last Saturday, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club also made their contribution to the fund-raising effort by collecting donations at a benefit performance held in the Loeb Experimental Theater...
Outside of these benefit performances, other Harvard artists are donating ticket sales to assist the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Two of the a capella groups on campus, the Harvard LowKeys and the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, donated 15% of their earnings from last Saturday’s “Frankly My Dear, I Don’t Give a Jam” concert to PIH. From the 6th to the 11th of February, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals also decided to contribute 25% of their proceeds from group discount tickets to Harvard for Haiti. However, Producer Stephen L. Rola...
Certainly, these performances have other goals besides raking in cash; providing an entertaining program for the audience is an obvious example. While performers alone may not define success in commercial terms, the main measure of a benefit concert is the dollar amount on the check they send to charity. Thus, a great deal of the energy expended in organizing such concerts is devoted to maximizing profit...
Harvard undergraduates began to mobilize a task force and plan the benefit concert shortly after the earthquake struck Haiti...
Novey, who bills himself as Burgerman, plans to run the Boston Marathon in April while wearing a burger costume. Having made a killer YouTube video, he’s asking individuals and businesses to give him money to complete the wacky task, hoping to raise $100,000 to benefit the charity Citizen Schools...