Activities next week range from benefit concert to public forums to a lecture by former NBA player Manute Bol
Kansas City area – A week’s worth of activities will take place April 14-20 to help Kansas City area residents discover ways they can combat the genocide taking place now in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The events, organized by the Greater Kansas City Young Professionals for International Cooperation, will feature everything from a presentation by former NBA player 7-foot, 7-inch Manute Bol, and a benefit rock concert at The Beaumont Club in Westport.
“The importance of Darfur Week is not just about our community
coming together as a whole to simply raise money, but bringing
awareness to the social injustices going on outside of the United
States,” said Melanie Troutman, a senior from Blue Valley High School who organized the concert. “Educating people is the forefront of this battle. Many people have no idea what is going on in Darfur, so hopefully Darfur Week will get a conversation started in our community and things will begin to really happen.”
The week’s events are as follows:
April 14
7:30 p.m. — Public meeting in downtown Kansas City. Maurice Brooks, YPIC chair; Thomas Pritchard of Sudan Sunrise; Kathleen Schneider of Save the Children and Michael Arunga of World Vision will discuss what is being done to assist refugees and end the conflict. The session be at the Westin Crown Center Hotel, Century Ballroom C, 2nd Floor, 1 East Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo. Crown Center shops provide three-hour free parking with a validated ticket.
April 15
A YPIC-sponsored forum on Darfur will take place at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg. It will include the following events:
9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — student poster session
12:30 p.m. — address on Conflict in Africa by Moussa Diop, former African Union peacekeeper
2 p.m. — address by Peter Makori, former Kenyan journalist and survivor of political persecution.
April 16
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Student poster session at University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg
1 p.m. — Speaker on Truth and Reconciliation: Thomas Prichard, Sudan Sunrise
6 p.m. — Speaker: Manute Bol, Kansas University Edwards Campus
April 17
6-9 p.m. — Silent art auction, reception and film screening at UMKC School of Nursing, Health and Science Building.
April 18
6:30 p.m. — Reception for Elizabeth Gibbons, chief of global policy, UNICEF. All Souls Universalist-Unitarian Church.
April 20
Coriolis Effect Concert for Darfur, The Beaumont Club, 2011 Pennsylvania in Westport. Brahe, Lights and Siren, Seedlove and Distance to Empty will all be performing. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The Coriolis Effect, a benefit concert being held on April 20th at the Beaumont Club (located at 2011 Pennsylvania in Westport) will be raising money for Darfur awareness. Proceeds from show will go to the 1.2 million Sudanese refugees who have been displaced from their homes in Sudan, the sight of the most horrific genocide in history, which has left 450,000 dead and shows no sign of stopping without intervention.
The concert is sponsored and assisted by UNA Board of Directors, UNA-YPIC Kansas City, Jewish Vocational Services, UMKC School of Nursing, Westin Crown Hotel, University of Central Missouri, Kansas University, All Souls Church, G.A.M.E., Kansas City Public Library (Supporting our planning by providing meeting space), The Beaumont Club and Heartland Films.
“Without the support of the people in Kansas City, this event can't
happen,” Troutman said. “By not attending, you are not just neglecting an issue that needs attention today, but stunting any growth for a better tomorrow.”
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