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/