For Hurricane Katrina Artists, Performance Fundraiser
at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, August 29

Brooklyn, N.Y.—With a sprinkling of New York flavor, New Orleans-style music, dance and other arts will spice up the stage at Long Island University’s Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts for a fundraiser supporting Hurricane Katrina survivors displaced in New York.

Presented by Artists For Life, the non-profit organization of Akila Worksongs, Inc., the show will take place on Tuesday, August 29, at 8 p.m. at the University’s Brooklyn Campus, located on the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues. Tickets are $25; $15, for students with college ID and senior citizens.

This special event gives the talented artists-survivors of Hurricane Katrina a grand opportunity to tell their own stories about “The Storm” and life in general. Live performances and artist exhibitors include poet and photographer, Saddi Khali; the a capella group, Crescendo; soul/funk recording artist, Tondrae; spoken word artist, Eliza B; and many others. Visual artists Vidho Lorville and Paul DEO will showcase their art in the lobby of the theater. Poets Abiodun Oyewole (of The Last Poets) and Camille Yarbrough are two of the co-hosts for the program.

The showcase comes a year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and many of its survivors still need housing, employment and support services in order to re-construct their lives.

For tickets, call the Kumble Theater box office at (718) 488-1624, or visit www.kumbletheater.org. For more information, call (718) 756-8501.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.