"Haiti - Flower of Mountain Lands", a benefit concert for St. John the Evangelist School in Petit Harpon, a mountain community in Haiti, will take place on Saturday, March 14 at Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.
Guests will enjoy an evening of dance, poetry, music, and a silent auction that will begin online at www.chattartistsforhaiti and culminate the night of the concert. The silent auction, cash bar, and hors d’oeuvres will begin at 7 p.m., with the concert beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 online at www.chattartistsforhaiti or at www.barkinglegs.org.
The entertainment will include Chattanooga performing and visual artists, in support of Outreach Haiti, a 501c3 organization. Some featured performers will be Azusa Dance, Nikki Ellis, Ann Law, Judith DeWitt, Monica and Aaron Ellison, Marcus Patrick Ellsworth, and The Undoctored Originals, who will be joined by guest artist Robin Burk and others.
The monies raised will contribute to an endowment fund for St. John the Evangelist School, built by Chattanoogans twenty years ago in Petit Harpon in Haiti.
A Brief History of St. John the Evangelist School:
The members of the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain built a school in Petit Harpon, Haiti, twenty years ago. What was to take four months took four years due to its isolated high mountain location and the impassable terrain one must traverse in order to reach it. In this fifth anniversary year of the great earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, organizers of the benefit celebrate the fact that Petit Harpon lost its church but none of its residents, thanks largely to the structural integrity of St. John the Evangelist School, which withstood the earthquake and sheltered people from the outlying region during the aftermath. Outreach Haiti has rebuilt St. John the Evangelist Church and is now raising money for an endowment for the school that will ensure its viability for years to come.