This Wednesday February 10th at Arts Collinwood. A benefit to help the people of Haiti:

Arts Collinwood + The Haiti Emergency Village Project in conjunction w/ NEONAC + Cleveland Tapes

Join us Wednesday February 10 from 6-10pm at Arts Collinwood for the Art for Haiti Benefit, including a live art auction from top local and national artists, food, cocktails and live jazz music. Proceeds will go directly to the Haiti Emergency Village Project.

THE HAITI EMERGENCY VILLAGE PROJECT (HEVP) is a consortium of organizations working towards the building of emerging villages in Haiti that will provide housing, infrastructure and other aspects of what constitutes a community. This group brings to Haiti transferable lessons learned from Katrina. HEVP has been conceived, organized and put into action by New Orleans residents, supporters and rebuilders, and Haitians on the ground, most with longstanding ties to New Orleans, to create a model for recovery.

You will have a chance to bid on art from some amazing regional, and international artists including – Keith Marlowe, Amy Casey, Dan Tranberg, Julius Lyle, Dana Depew, Bridget Caswell, Sunia Boneham, Paul Sydorenko, Jacob Wesley Lang, David Wilder, Tary Yu, Petroucha Moise to name a few!

PLUS a SILENT AUCTION of AN AMAZING ARRAY OF Donated items from local Merchants +venues including Macback’s Bookstore, Beachland Ballroom, Visible Voice Books, House of Blues, Playhouse Square, Grog Shop!

6 – 7 PM: Mingle, cocktails, food, browse silent auction and live auction items in the Arts Collinwood Gallery and Cafe

7 – 8:30 PM: Live art auction with auctioneer Lawrence Daniel Caswell

8:30 PM: Live jazz with Will Mason Trio in the Cafe

$10 Suggested Donation

Arts Collinwood, 397 E. 156th St., Cleveland, OH 44110

http://artscollinwood.org