Official announcement: Hurricane Hafli, 9/25

[alonewiththemoon]

Boston-area Belly Dancers to hold Red Cross Benefit Sept. 25

Hurricane Hafli: Shimmy Down the Storm


The Northeast Belly Dance Association (Boston Chapter) is pleased to announce a benefit hafli (Arabic for party) to raise funds for the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. Over 20 of the Boston area's finest dancers will perform in a showcase of the variety of styles of modern belly dance. Prizes will be auctioned and in between sets the dance floor will be open for all to participate, with DJ Garabed spinning. The hafli will be held on Sunday, September 25 from 3:30pm to 7pm at the Dilboy VFW Post, 371 Summer Street, Somerville (Davis Square). Suggested minimum donation is $15.

All of us have felt the emotional impact of Katrina, and were affected by the profound human suffering and loss as the stories of the Gulf Coast unfolded. As dancers, part of our art is to mesh music, movement and perhaps most of all emotion. As a community we pull on the strength of our artistic achievements to create something bigger than any one of us could create on our own. Together, we can shimmy down the storm to provide help to those so desperately in need.

The Northeast Belly Dance Association (NBDA), founded in 2003, is a social organization of dancers throughout the Northeast United States. The purpose of the NBDA is to bring together dancers throughout the Northeast, providing networking and performance opportunities for dancers of all levels. The NBDA has also sponsored workshops to further dancer education. This is the Boston Chapter's first official event after its formation in the summer of 2005. For further information about the NBDA, please visit http://www.nbdassociation.com/

Please comment if you need more information or have items to donate for the raffle/auction--the performance roster is full, but if you're in the area, please come join us on the dance floor!

Comments

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Can I post about this in my journal?

Is someone already soliciting area businesses for donations to the raffle? Is there someone coordinating donations whom I should consult?

Flyers available?

[alonewiththemoon]

Yes, absolutely post it, thanks!

The raffle is now being handled by Heather Tullar (Nara)--she's had experience doing this before for breast cancer research fundraisers. You can reach her at heather underscore tullar at yahoo dot com.

I am having a technical glitch with making the flyers available because apparently rcn won't host a pdf for me (or I am missing some piece of information about how to post them), but I am working on alternate space right now. If that doesn't work, do you know if your server will host pdfs?

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

do you know if your server will host pdfs?

I believe it does. I will gladly make the space available. I'll be able to upload it when I get home around 6, if you can email the file to my rojagato.com address.

servers and such

[dancer.livejournal.com]

Brian can host the flier (or a site) on his server, if you'd like . . .

Got it

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

posted it to my lj last night, since I have the original files. :)

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

I uploaded the flyer to my site if anyone wants to web-post it. Not the printable .pdf but a webviewer. http://www.redsilverdesign.com/images/Halfi_flyer_final.jpg


But I can upload the bigger, printable .pdf tonight if anyone wants.

[alonewiththemoon]

Do you know if there's anything special you have to do when uploading pdfs? I just ftp'd the file as I would for any other, but it's not showing up in my rcn directory. It's entirely possible I've got too much stuff up there and it just won't fit, but you'd think I'd get an error message when uploading it in that case.

If you could upload the pdf to your server later tonight, that would be best--that way, your site gets some exposure!

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

Will do. :)

I'm not sure about your attempt, I'd have to look into it. Uploading can be such a pain in the ass. I miss cuteftp.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

I posted it on my journal...want me to put it on the Davis Square community, too? Glad you posted it.

So any guidelines about dancing or costume or music? I figured you'd prefer slightly more traditional stuff...

[alonewiththemoon]

If you could put it in the Davis Square community, that would be awesome, thanks!

Guidelines: whatever you want, really! We've got everything lined up from tribal to folkloric to AmCab to Egyptian to fantasy to fusion to pretty much you name it! So dance whatever comes from the heart...

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Done. Also put it in the Boston Globe message boards for these things, only to discover someone else already had. Oops.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

I have something I'd like to donate.
I have a vintage sari. It's not it perfect condition as it is vintage straight from India, but it has a lovely gold thread peacock pattern.

thanks!

[alonewiththemoon]

That would be wonderful, it sounds lovely! Donations are now being handled by Heather Tullar (Nara)--if you could email her at heather underscore tullar at yahoo dot com, that would be swell :-)

Re: thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Done and done.

Re: thanks!

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Oopsy. Didn't mean that to be anonymous.

[brigid.livejournal.com]

http://www.boston.com/ae/events/katrina_benefits/

[alonewiththemoon]

yay, there we are! I can't even remember if I entered that one or not--did you? I did a mess of different Globe people, but I don't think that one was me.

The guy I contacted at the Herald agreed to run something, even though they don't really do event listings. He happens to know the dancer Melina so he's very belly dance friendly :-)

[brigid.livejournal.com]

i was going to but it was already there. do you want me to contact some places if i ever have any free time? or is it more centralized?

[alonewiththemoon]

I've been pretty on top of things--I've sent this to news directors or calendar people at all the major tv stations, all the college radio stations and a couple of talk stations, the Globe, Herald, Phoenix, Weekly Dig, Metro, and tonight when i get home and have the print edition in front of me I'll send it to the Arlington Advocate, which will get it to the conglomeration of the suburban Community Newspapers. Also the Somerville Arts Council (who were supportive), Boston Dance Alliance, and a bunch of belly dance related places. Feel free to send it on to anywhere else I haven't thought of!