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On the night of June 10, 2010 in New York City, an inspiring lineup of six female recording artists — Kat DeLuna, MoZella, Shontelle, Lenka, Cara Salimando, and Kelli Pyle — will make music to change the lives of girls. We invite you to join forces with GIRLS WHO ROCK, a benefit concert to support She’s the First, a global education campaign.
Tickets to GIRLS WHO ROCK - $20 for general admission and $50 for VIP - are now available at girlswhorockny.eventbrite.com and will support girls’ sponsorships in Tanzania via AfricAid, a partner of the She’s the First campaign.
We’ve chosen AfricAid as the beneficiary of the first GIRLS WHO ROCK concert because the organization — founded by 25-year-old Ashley Shuyler of Colorado, who will attend the concert, courtesy of JetBlue — recently piloted The Kisa Project, an initiative that gives Tanzanian teen girls a secondary school scholarship and enrolls them in a two-year leadership and computer training program. The girls take digital storytelling workshops and learn to share their lives with their sponsors through rich, vivid videos. Everyone who attends GIRLS WHO ROCK will be co-sponsors for our girls in The Kisa Project and be able to connect with them via shesthefirst.org throughout the year.
Shesthefirst.org leverages young women’s powerful platforms and social media networks (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) to promote the idea that education gives every girl a chance to break barriers and become ’the first’ to achieve something. We encourage young women to host fun, affordable fundraisers to sponsor a girl’s education at one of the vetted international non-profit programs in She’s the First’s online directory.
We are excited to team up with Livestream.com to broadcast the event online, as well as with music blog yousingiwrite.com, which will feature exclusive updates about our artists. We’re proud to be a featured event of Internet Week New York and have the promotional support of New York Women Social Entrepreneurs, Girls in Tech, Drop.io/PressLift, and GiveForward.org.
Tickets for GIRLS WHO ROCK are expected to sell out. Purchase yours at girlswhorockny.eventbrite.com today! Follow @GirlsWhoRockNY for the latest updates and announcement of venue, and email girlswhorockny@gmail.com for press and sponsorship inquiries.
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