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However, making people aware of an event isn’t enough. There is also the matter of getting the audience to lighten its collective wallet for a good cause...
...charge at the door of the Loeb Ex; the association wanted to continue the venue’s tradition of free admission. The benefit, therefore, depended entirely on the good will of its audience members. The suggested donation was five dollars. Likewise, admission to the Poets for Haiti event is free with a requested donation of ten dollars...
...Harvard for Haiti Benefit Concert,” audience members did have to pay to get in. However, that wasn’t the only source of income for the event. B.A. Sillah ’12, a member of the Harvard Glee Club and executive producer of last Friday’s benefit, said, “There’s a set ticket price. We’re also selling t-shirts that [the Harvard] COOP and the President’s Office donated, and on top of that, we are just asking people to donate...
...this end, last Friday’s “Harvard for Haiti Benefit” was framed by speeches on the tragic recent events. Sebastian Velez, Assistant Resident Dean of Kirkland House, closed his speech with a quote from photographer Sebastiao Salgado: “How can we claim ‘compassion fatigue’ when we show no sign of consumption fatigue?” he said. The sentiment that we who are lucky should share our good fortune ran through the event. One particularly resonant image from the PIH slide show featured at the concert...
...event also emphasized the brutality of the earthquake’s aftermath. The slideshow was a stream of shocking pictures of earthquake victims. In one picture, a Haitian teenager lay on a thin blanket weighed down by large rocks in a makeshift hospital for the wounded; in another, a street was flooded waist-deep with bodies of the dead pushed aside to make room for cars. PIH made the suffering of Haitian earthquake victims manifest, and immediate, in order to inspire empathy...