St. Louis Musicians for Haiti benefit Doctors Without Borders

Event: Notes From Home presents

St. Louis Musicians for Haiti
Proceeds benefit Doctors Without Borders

When: Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30p.m.

Where: Sheldon Concert Hall

Tickets: $15 general admission.

Tickets on sale Saturday, January 16 at 10 a.m.

Call MetroTix at314-534-1111 or visitwww.TheSheldon.org.

Tickets also available without a convenience fee in person at the Fox TheatreBox Office.

An all-star line-up of St. Louis musicians will donate their time and talent for St. Louis Musicians for Haiti, a one-night-only event, Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. to benefit Doctors Without Borders' Haitian Earthquake Relief efforts. Hosted by Julius Hunter, the event will feature soul and R&B singer Brian Owens, folk group Mayor Taylor, the Bottoms Up Blues Gang, jazz pianist Peter Martin, jazz vocalist Mardra Thomas with husband Reggie Thomas on piano, and jazz, soul and R&B singer Kim Massie, soprano Christine Brewer with Phillip Dunlap on piano, and Pianist Peter Henderson.

DoctorsWithout Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.www.doctorswithoutborders.org.

For more information, call The Sheldon at 314-533-9900 during normal business hours, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Haiti - Crisis Camp Today - Design/Coding and other solutions

Just a quick note to make you aware of an initiative to develop quickly some infrastructure pieces for the Haiti rescue/recovery mission. Activities are taking place today (Saturday 16 January). I just found out about this. My sense is that this is only the beginning, but figured that any of you with interest would be self-starters on following up. A top level overview is at

http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2010/01/this_saturday_volunteer_coders.html

or

http://j.mp/8bCr0k

http://haiti.crisiscommons.org/ has links and updates with project wiki etc. Meetings taking place in

• Crisis Camp Haiti, Boulder/Denver
• Crisis Camp Haiti, Brooklyn
• Crisis Camp Haiti, London
• Crisis Camp Haiti, Los Angeles
• Crisis Camp Haiti, Silicon Valley
• CrisisCamp Haiti Washington, DC

This immediate project is pointed toward software/gis and resource matching (family finder, have/need), but I am trying to find more mid-longer term solutions groups working toward recovery of water, housing, etc. I do not have any particular information on projects beyond what's at the site listed above - and do not want to be a bottleneck (since I cannot promise to turn around info requests promptly) but will do what I can to push info around.

I will post this at my site techneblog.blogspot.com which has an rss feed, etc. My apologies for sending this as a bcc to you all, but I figured that this would allow for benign forwarding of this note without getting people onto the many wonderful mailing lists on the Internet....

Thank you for your consideration.

With very best wishes,

Mike

Donation for Haiti Disaster Relief to Mercy Corps