Events

Ricemusic is...

A fund/fun/awareness raiser to make direct impact on post- Cyclone Nargis relief efforts and the food/medical crisis faced by more than 150,000 Burmese refugees living in Thailand along the border with Burma.

An evening of acoustic music at the Steel Recital Hall, UPEI on August 20, 2008, featuring Tara MacLean and Catherine MacLellan and Burmese refugees who have settled in Charlottetown.

A forum to hearfrom guest speakers from the PEI Food Security Network on how global changes impact locally and vice versa. An installation of photographs taken by Burmese refugees living along the Thai/Burma border and a short talk from NS natives, Susan and Nat Tileston who founded the My Story Photo Project Association, which has been running this program out of Mae Sot, Thailand for the past few years.

A documentary film that will weave the night's performances in with footage of the delivery of the funds raised to purchase rice and medical supplies for the Mae Tao Clinic and neighboring refugee camps in Mae Sot.

This project is a response to the impacts of the price of rice more than doubling in the last year for people far away and how the food crisis could affect us locally. It will also be a chance for people to come together in the spirit of global well-being and be assured that their efforts/donations will make it directly to the people in need.

Sponsored by ACIC, IIS, WUSC, Cooper Institute & Women's Network