Recital by 15-year-old Meera Shanti You are invited to a benefit piano recital by Meera Shanti on Saturday, 10/29/05 at 7 PM at the United Churches. Ms. Shanti will play a selection of music by Debussy, Chopin, Albeniz, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, and Lecuona. Donations will be accepted but no one will be turned away. The proceeds will go to the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City, Palestine.

Helping The Deaf in the Gaza Strip... Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children is a Palestinian NGO which has been working in the field of deaf education and allied services since 1992. Literally thousands of deaf and hearing impaired persons and their families are served annually at Atfaluna through deaf education, audiology, speech language pathology, vocational training and better parenting programs.

Meera Shanti,15, has been playing the piano since she was 2. She is educated at home and now part-time at Olympia High School. Meera is a Junior member of Olympia Friends Meeting (Quakers) and is a member of the Black Hills Gymnastics Team. She performed in Philadelphia this spring, as well as attending the Mannes International Keyboard Institute in New York City this past summer.

This event is cosponsored by the Olympia Friends Meeting (Quakers), the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and St. Johns Episcopal Church.

For more information about the recital, contact Mark Brodeck and Donna Schumann at 3609430965 or brodeck@comcast.net. For more information about the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, see http://www.atfaluna.net/

The Evergreen Irish Resurgence Element (EIRE) presents…Fall Feast 2005

Celebrate the coming of autumn in the best way possible, with food, drink, and good cheer!

This Saturday, October 29th at the Organic Farmhouse

4:30 pm – Irish foods workshop! Learn to make a variety of traditional and semi-traditional dishes, from brown bread to boxty.

6 pm – Potluck! Fill your gullet and drink your fill of the rich bounty of Irish cuisine.

7 pm – Craic! Enjoy some good times around the fire, with a song in your heart and a mug of hot cider in your hand!

This event is FREE, and is open to all Evergreen students. Please contact evergreenirish@yahoo.com with any questions.

The Olympia Workers Association's mission is to assist working people in the Olympia area who want to improve their working conditions. Workers in all different types of employment deal with the same issues - job insecurity, health, safety, and childcare issues, bad pay, and the general lack of respect for wage workers.

The Olympia Workers Association believes all people deserve workplace dignity, a living wage, safe working conditions and workplace democracy.