Photo Credit: Sami Dickerson[/caption]The Peace Concert not only benefited Ebola patients in Liberia, but also provided excellent entertainment for students and parents who attended. A total of seven acts performed for the audience on Thursday, December 18.
To begin the concert, President Jacob Larson and Vice President Ben Wirzba of the Peace Club, supported by teacher Marc Sprintz, explained that the contributions to the event that night would be directly given to Liberian communities that the Peace Club had been in contact with and that were being over run with Ebola. Larson and Wirzba went on to explain that Liberian communities would lose entire families to the illness and it would then spread, causing fear in the rest of the community. During the concert, short intermissions were used to show videos about the communities being supported.
The acts that were included were the OHS Improvicons, Andie McKinnon, the Apollo’s Panthers (solely represented by Ashley Badstein), Snowmotion (comprised of sophomores Katie Clark and Nicole Cassida), poet Samantha Nance, guitarist Cameron Price, and Diali Cissokho and Austin McCall.
Because of the Peace Club’s cause, many Liberian community members will be freed from the Ebola sickness. To learn more about the illness, check out these New York Times videos: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/ebola/index.html.
Athletic Boosters is one of the clubs that is selling new items. They will be selling popcorn, nachos, and drinks. Peace Club will have bracelets, tie-dye shirts, and handbags. Virtual Enterprise Club will set up a pong toss game. SGA will be selling freeze pops. Other clubs will have booths that will participate in face painting and games.
The girls basketball team will be selling doughnuts and bottled water. Laurie Shoffner will be selling baked goods with the Ladies of Style and Distinction Club. The Transition Club will be selling mini-pumpkins and ghost and monster luminaries.
Students will honor Kacie Chamberlain and Chase Underhill by wearing pink and camouflage clothes. There will also be a booth where students and teachers can buy raffle tickets, koozies, drinks, and baked goods to raise money for the Kacie Chamberlain and Chase Underhill Scholarship Fund.
The End of the World Benefit Concert took place December 20 at 6:30 pm in the OHS auditorium to raise money for Carolina for Kibera. The concert was hosted by the Peace Club, led by Marc Sprintz. The concert featured performances by many including but not limited to the Apollo Panthers, The Blue Suits, and a duet performance by seniors Terrance Morrow and Chelsea Aniol.
The concert started when Peace Club President Karla Lozano and Vice-President Indy Reid-Shaw walked up on stage and gave a brief intro to Peace Club's cause, Carolina for Kibera.
The first performer was Anastasia Zitko. She sang two songs, the first being “Jar of Hearts,” originally performed by Christina Perry. The second song was “Fix You” by Coldplay. The crowd loved it, and it was a great start to a great evening.
The singing performance was followed by poetry performed by Apollo Panthers, which consisted of several people performing poetry. They came up individually, and performed several poems/raps in between other performances.
One band who really fired up the auditorium was the Blue Suits. They performed four songs with high intensity and sound.
Terrance Morrow and Chelsea Aniol performed “Next To You,” originally sung by Chris Brown and Justin Bieber, as a lovely duet.
“It was a really great concert with great performances,” junior Christian Walker said when it was over.
The movie shows the life in the slums from a group of young mens' perspective. They are from different religious and ethnic groups, but they come together to play their favorite sport, soccer. Soccer is a huge part of these childrens' lives. We mainly follow the stories of Nicholas and Adan, both of whom are the captains for their respective teams. They tension of the film comes from their meet in the final match of the Champions league soccer tournament.
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The producer of the film, Beth-Ann Kutchma, came to Orange to present the film and answer question from the audience. Carolina for Kibera is based in Chapel Hill, providing a great opportunity for members of the Peace Club to interact with the organization.
The Without A Fight website features reviews of the film. One of which, written by Neil
Morris of the Independent Weekly, said, "Without a Fight—Set in the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, against a backdrop of bloody unrest, village youth toss aside their often warring ethnic and religious tribalism to instead battle for supremacy on the soccer pitch. As the teams compete in the local and loftily named Champions League, the film chronicles the march toward the season's championship and the backstories of some of its participants. Coaches must not only contend with political unrest and violence, but also players whose training is inhibited by suchobstacles as hunger and a lack of shoes—impoverished kids occasionally have been killed trying to steal cleats. The film is both uplifting and illuminating, a look inside a place where the degree of bloodshed and poverty might seem foreign, but the healing power of team athletics is universal." For more information, visit www.withoutafight.com.