Mike Barrett photo
Corry Feigen, 14, of Thornhill is one of this year’s young talents taking part in the York Region Live! student benefit concert. He is performing in various duets.
Arts and entertainment
March 15, 2008 02:04 PM
York Region students are using their talents to support the fight against AIDS in Africa.
This Wednesday, weeks of work by many students across the York Region District School Board will result in a concert that is an effort to help relieve the suffering of HIV and AIDS in Africa.
York Region Live! II benefit concert has the support of the York Region Committee in Support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
The concert follows up on the first of its kind last year and again, is organized completely by York Region students in grade 7 to 12, with the help of just one adult supervisor, Michael Frankfort.
The concert features 20 students and a few staff rock bands from different schools determined to increase local awareness to the pandemic.
Funds raised from the concert are to go toward easing the plight of women who are ill and struggling to survive, assisting orphans and AIDS-affected children with the payment of school fees and provisions of food and supporting the grandmothers who bury their own children and care for their orphan grandchildren.
The benefit concert takes place Wednesday at the Vaughan City Playhouse, 1000 New Westminster Dr., beginning at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $15 per person and can be purchased through Carrville Mills Public School or by contacting Michael Frankfort at 905-709-2646 ext. 225 or
michael.frankfort@yrdsb.edu.on.ca