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...unite audiences in emotional empathy. In the wake of January’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, artists from the Harvard community seem to follow this last tradition. Poets and performers alike are banding together to raise money and awareness by inspiring audiences to understand the scale of the Haitian tragedy, and to empathize with the people affected...
...Woodberry Poetry Room. The event, which will feature former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky among others, will take place at Longfellow Hall at 7:30 PM. “Poets for Haiti” is just one in a string of events around campus raising funds for the Haitian earthquake victims...
...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 was a child amputee in a wheelbarrow, being pushed through the streets of Port-Au-Prince by a more fortunate Haitian...
...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...
...sold-out relief concert featured original dance and musical compositions by Harvard students. Performances included a show by the Drummers of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, a dance by the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe to the beat of Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean, and a rendition of Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” from the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...