Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 25, 2003|Volume 31, Number 27

Concert to help raise funds for
year-round, overflow homeless shelter

Two Yale organizations have joined with other community groups and individuals to present a benefit concert to help keep the Overflow Shelter in New Haven open year-round.

Because of budget constraints, the city of New Haven has announced that on April 30 it will have to close the Overflow Shelter, which serves 70 to 100 people nightly. Columbus House, the service agency currently contracted by the city to run the shelter, has agreed to keep the shelter open for the next six months for $90,000, and Mayor John DeStefano has promised $40,000 in matching funds.

The Overflow Crisis Advisory Committee is now working to raise the remaining $50,000. The committee members include the Yale Hunger & Homelessness Action Project, Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice, New Haven Alderman Ed Mattison, Connecticut State Senator Toni Harp, Interfaith Cooperative Ministries, First & Summerfield United Methodist Church, Agape House, Nightrunners Christian Outreach Ministries and Respect Line.

The benefit concert sponsored by the committee will be held on Sunday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in First & Summerfield United Methodist Church, 425 College St. Local performers will present a program of opera, folk and classical music. They will include the Agape Group, a violin, cello and piano trio; guitarist and songswriter Areon; activist and musician Bill Saunders; vocalist and songwriter Defon Barret; flautist Elizabeth Gertz; opera singer Grace Kuckro; the Yale ethnic a cappella group Shades; and classical guitarist Stephen Osserman.

Tickets are $30 for the general public; $20 for senior citizens and students. Individuals wishing to make other donations to the cause can send a check made payable to Interfaith Cooperative Ministries, with "Overflow closing" written on the memo line, to: ICM, 205 Edwards St., New Haven, CT 06511.

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