For a complete list of University Events and Lectures, see: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/katrina/events.shtml

Monday, September 19
Stony Brook Department of Music Benefit Concert
Staller Center for the Arts, Recital Hall, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 p.m.
Free Admission.
Members of the Department of Music will perform in three short concerts to help raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Admission to the concerts is free but attendees are encouraged to donate to relief efforts. Arrangements have been made with the following relief funds to accept donations: The American Federation of Musicians Gulf Coast Relief Fund, NAACP Disaster Relief Fund, and the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Fund.

Partial Program (see the Music Department website for updates)

4:00-4:45 p.m
Emerson String Quartet
Joanna Kaczorowska, violin and Pablo Lavendera, piano: Schumann, Violin Sonata in A Minor
And more

5:00-5:45 p.m.
Gilbert Kalish, piano: a movement from the Concord Sonata by Charles Ives
Intrada Winds: Summer Music Op. 31, Samuel Barber
Martin Vasquez, voice and Vesela Kirova, piano: songs by Sondheim and Gurney
Pavel Vinnitsky, clarinet and Anna Brandenbursky, piano: Premiere Rhapsody by Claude Debussy
And more

6:00-6:45 p.m.
Christina Dahl, piano: TBA
Krystal Grant, piano: Prelude in G# minor op 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Christina Dahl and Gilbert Kalish, piano: Franz Schubert

Tuesday, September 20
Benefit Concert
University Café, Union, 1st floor, 6:00 p.m.
There is a $5.00 suggested donation. All proceeds go to the Red Cross.
Artists include:
River Bottom Nightmares
Edison Glass
Red Yellow England
Syphadius

Thursday, September 22
Fundraiser for Katrina Victims, 5-8:30 pm (panel discussion, light dinner, and benefit concert)
Wang Center Theater, Sponsored by Musicians Alliance for Peace (MAP), the Social Justice
Alliance (SJA), and the Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

This event will be a fundraiser (consisting of a panel discussion, dinner, and musical performances) to support victims who have suffered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. 100% of proceeds will go to a selection of charities giving relief aid; people attending the benefit will be able to choose which relief organization they would like to support.

Panel Discussion (5:00-6:15pm): Katrina: Political Dimensions of a Disaster
Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Bogard (Sociology, Hofstra)
Speaker: Prof. Peniel E. Joseph (Africana Studies, Stony Brook)
Moderator: Chad Kautzer, Social Justice Alliance

Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Waiting Till the Midnight Hour: The Black Power Movement and American Society (New York: Henry Holt, 2006) and editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black
Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006).

Cynthia Bogard teaches in the Department of Sociology at Hofstra University. Her publications focus on public policy, social movements and advocacy, gender, poverty, and homelessness

Benefit Concert (7:00-8:30pm)
An eclectic group of Stony Brook's finest musicians. Among the performers on the program (subject to change) will be jazz great Ray Anderson (Stony Brook music department faculty), accomplished classical South Indian dancer Malini Srinivasan, mezz-soprano Kathleen Flynn, Stony Brook composer and pianist Dawn Chambers, and the band A Man Down.