NEW YORK--()--GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation with The LGBT Community Center, the Take Back Pride Campaign and Jamie McGonnigal present Broadway’s finest in William Finn's Elegies: A Song Cycle at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
“GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation is thrilled to be a part of such a poignant, powerful, personal and political performance, which will help raise funds for the presenting charities to continue the vital civil liberty work which faces the LGBTQA community.”
According to Stephanie A. Jones, JD, LLM, MPH, Esquire, Co-Trustee with Ronnie Kroell of GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation, “Composer Finn’s Elegies invites each of us to honor our beloved family members; whether by birth or choice.”
Kroell notes, “In Elegies we are able to experience Finn’s honor of his personal beloveds – his late mother, Barbara Finn, and his many chosen family who have died of AIDS. Then, in the final sequences of Elegies, Finn shifts his focus from one of our personal families to our global human family, in a study on how 9/11 irreversibly, universally affected us all.”
Jones sums, “GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation is thrilled to be a part of such a poignant, powerful, personal and political performance, which will help raise funds for the presenting charities to continue the vital civil liberty work which faces the LGBTQA community.”
Continuing GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation’s LGBTQA-related civil rights work into this fall, Kroell will serve as an Honorary Committee Members for the 7th Annual Wedding March and Festival on September 26, 2010.
Jones, co-author, 2009 NYC Anti-Violence Project’s LGBTQ Domestic Violence Report (www.avp.org), is a contributing author to the NYC AVP’s 2010 iteration, and is working on the quantitative design of an LGBTQ-specific, Domestic Violence Survey Instrument for STOP Partner Abuse/Domestic Violence Program’s (L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles) use in 2011.
Tickets to Elegies are on sale now. General admission: $20; Premium seats: $50 (which includes gift bag and an autographed show poster). The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, NYC. Visit http://www.gaycenter.org/node/5514to purchase online or call 212-620-7310 to charge by phone.
About GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation (“GNW”): GNW “Helps Charities Help Themselves” by working with charities personally vetted for character doing civil liberty work for marginalized, discriminated-against communities (“GNW Grantees”).
GNW helps GNW Grantees by supporting these Grantees’ own fundraising activities and events, by providing to GNW Grantees multi-disciplinary professional consulting services in public health education and promotion and by assembling and/or designing quantitative research to support GNW Grantees’ efforts to write statistically-sound, scientifically-persuasive grant proposals.
To date, GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation’s Grantees have included Womankind Kenya (Kenya); Center on Halsted (Chicago), NYC Anti-Violence Project (New York); White Knot (Los Angeles); H.O.P.E. for an Unreached World (Uganda); the “Hate Crime is HUMAN CRIME” campaign for Jorge Steven López Mercado (New York); New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (Albany, New York); STOP Partner Abuse/Domestic Violence (at L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles), Drinking for a Change (New York), Haitian Relief (with Daffy’s Corporation) (New York).
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