October 15,
2007
For immediate release
CONSCIOUS ALLIANCEÕS FIRST
YOUTH AGAINST HUNGER (Y.A.H) STUDENT SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT TO DEPART OCTOBER
21ST FOR PINE RIDGE RESERVATION
CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE AND BIONEERS
PRESENT
THE REBEL ALLIANCE JAM VIII
AT THE BOULDER THEATER
AS PART OF THE COLORADO BIONEERS
CONFERENCE
Conscious AllianceÕs Youth Against
Hunger project (Y.A.H.) offers exciting alternative service-learning experiences
for college students during their fall/spring breaks. Y.A.H synthesizes service learning by combining education
and hands-on service. Y.A.H students
learn about hunger related issues, as well as Lakota culture, by providing
compassionate cross-cultural community service on the Pine Ridge Reservation in
South Dakota. While on the
reservation, students lodge with community leaders Floyd and Natalie Hand, as
they sort and distribute food to community members in need, aid with home
repairs for Lakota families, participate in educational sessions with Lakota
elders, and communicate with Pine Ridge college students and peers about
current cultural, social, economic, and environmental issues. Conscious AllianceÕs Y.A.H provides
students with the knowledge and support they need to return to their respective
communities and, using the skills they have acquired, create positive change in
their local communities.
Conscious
AllianceÕs inaugural Youth Against Hunger (Y.A.H) Student Service Learning
Experience will happen October 21st-October 26th on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Ten students from Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC), along with two
WWC staff members and a representative from Conscious Alliance, are traveling
in two passenger vans to deliver a 16 foot box truck full of food and other
materials, including soap and hygiene products, to the residents of the
Reservation. While at Pine Ridge,
students will organize the Conscious Alliance food pantry and re-stock shelves
with donated food items. In
addition, participating students will distribute emergency food boxes to
households throughout the reservation.
This Y.A.H excursion is sponsored by the entirety of Warren Wilson
College, including Academic Affairs, the Admissions Office, The Chapel, and
their Multi-Cultural Affairs Center.
Y.A.H. student participants were hand-chosen by Conscious Alliance,
based on the Warren Wilson Triad of academics, work and service.
The day
before Y.A.H. departs to the reservation, Conscious Alliance will host Rebel
Alliance VIII at the Boulder Theater. For this eighth event in the Conscious
Alliance benefit concert series, Michael Kang (The String Cheese Incident),
Keith Moseley (The String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams and The WMDÕS), and
Chris Berry & Panjea will perform with guests to be announced for one very
special evening of music.
Proceeds from the Rebel Alliance Jam VIII will benefit Conscious
Alliance www.consciousalliance.org
and Our Future Now www.ourfuturenow.org. Every patron attending this yearÕs show
is encouraged to donate $10.00 or 10 canned food items in exchange for a free
limited edition poster by artist Timothy Ripley www.timothyripley.netfirms.com/.
Show
details are as follows:
Saturday, October 20th
@ 9:00 pm (Doors @ 8:00 pm)
Boulder Theater
Rebel Alliance Jam VIII
Featuring Michael Kang, Keith Moseley, Chris Berry & Panjea, and very
special guests
Tickets $20.00 /
Ages 21+ Welcome
For more information please visit www.bouldertheater.com
Each Rebel
Alliance VIII performer will participate in the Colorado Bioneers Conference
happening at the CU Boulder campus that same weekend. Michael Kang, Keith Moseley,
and Chris Berry, together with
Conscious Alliance founder Justin Baker, will speak as panelists on the
Bioneers session entitled "Activism through Art and Music." The
panel will explore how musicians and artists are achieving profound social
change locally and globally as well as their sources of inspiration and worldly
visions. For more information on
this panel and other events taking place throughout the weekend, please visit http://www.ecenter.colorado.edu/bioneers07/.
Since its
inception in 2002, Boulder-based not-for-profit Conscious Alliance has
collected and donated over 500,000 lbs. of food to local U.S. food banks and to
impoverished Indian Reservations in the western United States. The bulk of food collected at Rebel
Alliance VIII will go directly to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in
accordance with the first annual Conscious Alliance Student Service Trip, while
money donations collected will be used to support ÒTurkey nÕ TrimmingsÓ food
deliveries over the Thanksgiving holiday.
For more information please visit www.consciousalliance.org.
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Fore more information about
Conscious Alliance please visit:
Carrie Lombardi / carrie@madisonhousepublicity.com
Claire Tonelson / claire@madisonhousepublicity.com
303.413.8308