Ten campus groups will perform in Richardson Auditorium Friday evening to raise money for genocide victims in Darfur, Sudan.
Amity Weiss '07 envisioned "An Evening for Darfur" more than two months ago and, with help from fellow sophomore Dustin Kahler, coordinated a committee of 11 other undergraduates to make it a reality.
"There's always lectures on issues, but there's very rarely anything that tries to bring in a larger part of the community," Weiss said. "It's a concrete action."
The organizers of the event will not charge admission, but will encourage donations, all of which will be forwarded to Oxfam — an aid organization operating in Africa — Weiss said.
She said the committee secured $3,500 from sources such as the University Projects Board, Bildner Fund and PACE center to rent out Richardson.
"The Global Issues Forum is the main sponsor," committee member Karen Karniol-Tambour '06 said. "I think this will be the largest money-raising event the University has seen since I've been here."
Karniol-Tambour, Weiss and three other members on the committee are also members of the Global Issues Forum, a student organization dedicated to enhancing campus awareness of global affairs. Non-politically-minded organizations have joined the effort as well.
To attract attention and boost student attendance, Karniol-Tambour selected some of the University's most popular performance groups, such as BodyHype, Disiac, the Tigertones and Sympoh, for the show.
"It's getting people to talk about the conflict," she said. "Even in a week when everyone is like election, election, election, they're still talking about it."
Groups such as OWL, ROTC and American Foreign Policy have aided the effort by emailing their members to support the event.
After an advertising effort that included publications, posters, table tents, emails and a display in front of Frist Campus Center, the committee hopes for a turnout of over 600 people.
"The great thing has been that random people I have never seen approach me about the event," Karniol-Tambour said. "The outreach has been huge."
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