Art for Peace event to aid Be The Cause

SOUTHLAND COMMUNITIES ORGANIZE EVENING OF COMPASSION AND EXPRESSION
Event Aids Gaza Humanitarian Crisis By Using Art For Peace

WHAT: Compassion and Expression: Art for Peace. Be The Cause, a not-for-profit community service organization, hosts an evening of education, expression and inspiration through a three-part event including speakers from various international relief organizations, interactive audience art projects to initiate dialogue within our community and performances by local Los Angeles musicians.

Participants are encouraged to bring: art tools of choice, an old t-shirt to graffiti on with a message of peace, art supplies to share at the event (paint, pastels, construction paper, etc.). Be The Cause will send get well cards created to hospitalized civilians in Gaza, as well as letters written at the event to state representatives to encourage participants to express their opinions to our elected decision makers.

WHEN: Saturday - March 7, 2009
5:00 – 9:00 pm

WHERE: Chuco’s Justice Center,
1137 East Redondo Blvd.
Inglewood CA 90302
Suggested Donation: $10

RSVP at www.BeTheCause.org under Calendar Events

WHO: Featured speakers from International Relief Organizations:International Red CrossKinderUSAIslamic ReliefCatholic Relief Services

LIVE socially-conscious performances from renowned LA artists:
DJ nPrevail
Vivien Sansour and Ayelet Cohen
Manisha Shahane
Mark Gonzales Skim
Omar Offendum
Elephants with Guns
Nissum Malul

About Be The Cause:
Be the Cause is a community of individuals that create enriching opportunities of service. In the process, we benefit the community at large and change our own lives as well. The entire organization is run virtually with no office space and entirely through the efforts of volunteers. Everyone gives freely of their own time.

The organization started in early 2002 with a few simple questions: "What is our purpose here?", "How can we change the world?", "Can one person really make a difference?".

Although the answers still continue to elude us, the questions themselves have become more meaningful. This journey has somehow led us to believe that we can change the world, but only by making examples of our own lives. We organize regular community service projects, an annual Walk for Hope, an annual visit to a developing country, and many other projects.

For more information visit us at: www.BeTheCause.org