Rhythm for Life

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A COVID-19 Kathak Dance Fundraiser

Art for Community ~ Art for Aid ~ Art for Beauty

24-hour dance and music event

Thank you for your tremendous support and contributions to our Rhythm for Life fundraiser for COVID relief in India. This was an incredible event, and a real labour of love for all involved. Thank you to everyone who shared their passion for kathak, and to those who joined us over the 24 hour period to view and support. If you have not yet submitted your donation, please see the donation information below. If you have missed seeing your sponsored dancer/s, please review their sessions in the attached videos. We will update this website shortly with a total amount of funds raised from this event.

A huge heartfelt thanks from all of the participants and organizers.

Donation Information

CanadaHelps has a broad range of India COVID specific causes to choose from. These include medical supplies and oxygen, help for children and families, more robust testing and more. They all provide Canadian tax receipts. Examples are UNICEF, OXFAM, Red Cross.

Doctors without Borders/MSF is an incredible international organization and they provide international tax receipts for donations of $10 and up.

If you wish to acknowledge a dancer you are supporting, please follow these steps on either of these sites:

• Check “Make this gift in honor” or “Add a Dedication”
• select “In honor of”, fill in name of dancer
• select “Send an eCard”, fill in “Rhythm for Life” and rhythm.for.life.india@gmail.com
• fill in a short message and your details if desired
• then proceed to the donation

 

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Videos

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(time in EDT and in Toronto except where specified)

9 am SAT	Joanna de Souza Anita Katakkar Somia Chakrabarti Natasha Manji Purvi Patel Gamsana Abayan Mihaela Dirlea (Annapolis Royal, NS) Sucheta Heble Aruna Mitra Tara Goleman Gretchen Hayden-Ruckert(Boston) Seema Mehta (Mumbai) Rachana RK Crystal D’Silva (Brussels) Megan Mishra Meenakshi S Shriya Kulkarni
10 am	Joanna de Souza with class: Aishwarya Persaud, Ameya Madan, Gaiyatri Jain, Nikhita Laloo, Mallika Duggal, Teya Mody, Riya Varia. Maya Chandarana Misty Wensel(Regina) Somia Chakrabarti(Kolkata) Tegan Wylie(Toulouse) Ayesha Khan Pawas Soni Tasneem Jiwani Mihaela Dirlea (Annapolis Royal) Urvashi Batra Natasha Manji Purvi Patel
11 am	Jane Morris Mamta Pranjivan Priti Anand Hellen H Jessica Thadickal Doyali Islam Ira Raina Tanurina Datta Sudhir A
12 pm (9 am PDT)	Ameera Nimjee (Seattle) Davika Misir Avani Kalicharran Anandi Kalicharran
1 pm	Sucheta Heble Aruna Mitra Asmita Talwalkar Sanam Dehghani Ekta Parnami
2 pm	Jessica Thadickal Meenakshi Agrawal and Keya B. Waikar
3 pm	Shefali Jain (Boston) Sujatha Kumar (Boston) Lavanya Kumara Anwita Wadekar Leela Ahn Shriya Kukarni
4 pm	Sarah Farrukh Anita Katakkar Prajakta Dravid Isaa Chopra Juni Nina Bhattacharya Aarti Anand Kathryn Wright(Boston) Smruti Akhila