You’re welcome to come this Saturday to the Masonic Hall in Cumberland for a night of diverse dance and fusion music at Seeds of Rhythm.
It’s a fundraiser supporting local photographer Sarah Kerr and Fertile Ground’s Kids to Kids program.
Kerr is going to Assam, India, to work with children and youth to help them tell their own stories through images. The Kids to Kids Project is part of a new initiative by Fertile Ground East/West Sustainability Network, a Comox Valley non-profit that provides sustainable organic agriculture education in rural India.
Sustainable agriculture is a universal activity that connects people from all sides of the world and this is the focus of the Kids to Kids project.
Local elementary school students from Queneesh Elementary and the Montessori Program will create and photograph “stories” about their lives. They will be gathered and taken over for the kids in Assam who will send back their stories to the kids at Queneesh.
Seeds of Rhythm celebrates East and West with live tabla and sitar by Ali and Matt, belly dance with Cathy Stoyko and Blue Lotus Dancers, traditional Assamese dancer, Jayashree, chair acrobatics by Gwen, Hula Hoopla-Hula Hoop magic and the Naked DJs and em.ash, Fools Paradise Sound System.
Doors open at 8 p.m. The cost is $12 in advance at Freakin’ Coffeeshop, Bop City Records and Tarbell’s, $15 at the door.
For more information, visit www.sarahkerrphotography.ca.
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