Event
Musical Movement for Ebola
What: Musical Movement for Ebola, a benefit concert to prevent the spread of Ebola through Social Mobilization, sponsored by the local non-profit organization Full-Circle Learning
When: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Where: Saint Joseph's Cultural Center, 410 South Church Street, Grass Valley
How: Purchase tickets at the door or in advance at Briar Patch Co-Op, Brownpapertickets.com or, by appointment, at the Full-Circle Learning office: (530) 264-7219.
Cost: $40 VIP; $25 General Seating; $15 Children 12 and Under
Who: World-class musicians will pool their talents to help stem the tide of new Ebola outbreaks.
Pianist and avant-garde composer Terry Riley, who helped usher in the minimalist movement early in his musical career, will offer the capstone performance. His 1968 release, In-C, became a platform for the minimalist movement. Later periods of his career have featured self-interpretative improvisations reflecting his travels in India and jazz or classical-flavored string quartets, but the history books pay homage to Riley particularly for his association with the minimalist movement.
Beaucoup Chapeaux dubs its style "part Parisian Bistro, Italian Cafe, part circus, the Hot Club of France in the wilds of Macedonia with Piaf singing in Greek while dancing tango, playing antique melodies in dazzling re-imagining as well as visionary new creations."After more than five years of performances behind them, with400 concerts logged throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, Beaucoup Chapeaux is now in the recording mode, set to
release its second recording in spring 2015.
The "bandclan members, whoalso all perform in a dazzling array of other musical collectives," include Maggie McKaig, Luke Wilson, Murray Campbell, and Randy McKean, doing what they do on accordion, tenor guitar, plectrum banjo, violin, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, piccolo, and vocals. You can visit them online at www.beaucoupchapeaux.netor on Facebook, and locally, you can find them oftenon Fridaynights at the Nevada City Classic Café.
Ludi Hinrichs, Joe Fajen and Bill Douglass will also lend their unique talents to the concert. The trio's repertoire draws from cultures across the planet. Hinrichs' early study of jazz composition at the Berklee School of Music served as jumping off point for a career that searched beyond Western tradition for its purpose. Hinrichs compares the tonal qualities of the group's music to "heirloom delicacies of our deep musical heritage."
Why: Liberia offered only .01 doctors for every 1,000 people even before the Ebola outbreak.
Treatment of new cases alone cannot stop Ebola. Prevention efforts play a vital role in reducing human suffering and limiting a more global outbreak. This requires disinfectant, food for healthy immune systems amid new economic stresses, and local education efforts. Full-
Circle Learning has direct access to school communities throughout the capital city of Liberia.
Teachers disseminate disinfectant, gloves, rice and mobile lesson plans. "As West Africans struggle through the crisis, we thank Nevada County friends who have readily given.
The concert allows us to galvanize our community to reach those neighborhoods where people are still waiting for help," said Teresa Langness, founding board president of Full-Circle Learning.
Funds donated to the Nevada County charity go directly to its Liberian office to buy life-saving supplies for families, disseminated by the teachers. Meanwhile, the Liberian teachers, now unpaid, have volunteered their time to take mobile classrooms into the communities, tailoring
academic lesson plans around the theme of Steadfastness. Teachers walk great distances (avoiding taxis and public transportation) to teach for free in the mobile classrooms. The lesson plans include resiliency activities and literacy, as well as offering math and science skills that
might help students think about future health care careers.
According to Full-Circle Learning's Africa Program Director Davidson Efetobore, the government immediately showed interest in modeling the mobile classrooms as a tool for safe schooling during the outbreak. Meanwhile, the teachers reflected the gratitude of the parents for what the program has provided these families. The children interviewed by Full-Circle Learning said that through the program, they are teaching their own parents to maintain hope during difficult times.
Grassroots prevention efforts through social mobilization in Monrovia may account partially for Liberia's decline in new outbreaks, although reporting methods are not reliable, and politicians may under-report new cases while preparing for an election, said Efetobore. In any case, this program has proven effective, with no new outbreaks wherever implemented. The key is to keep the program in effect until every school neighborhood is served with life-saving prevention measures.
New challenges lie ahead. Because 3,865 people (mostly-parents) had died from Ebola by early October, Efetobore fears the country will struggle with the continuing effort to care for untold numbers of orphans. With so many breadwinners among the deceased, and jobs eliminated during the quarantine, the economic downturn has made hunger as ferocious a killer as Ebola.
Today, the simple gifts of food, disinfectant and humanitarian education offer hope and can save lives.
For more information about the organization, visit www.fullcirclelearning.org.
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LocationSt. Joseph's Cultural Center (View)
410 South Church Street
Grass Valley, CA 95945
United States
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