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Youth For Youth: A benefit concert for BC Society for Educating Girls of Rural China: Vancouver Children's Choir, Zhang Fang Fang , Ali Milner, Western-Li Summerton , Winnie Liao , Vancouver Sun columnist, Barbara Yaffe, EMCEE

Since 2005 the EGRC Society has been providing funds for impoverished young wome...
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Music Classical / Baroque / Opera
Wed. May 6th 2009 + Add to Calendar Christ Church Cathedral (All Ages)
7:30pm - 9:30pm  Doors at: 6:30pm $20 plus service charges

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Vancouver Children's Choir
Children's Choir from Vancouver BC
since circa 1983
Zhang Fang Fang
Ali Milner
Western-Li Summerton
Winnie Liao
Vancouver Sun columnist, Barbara Yaffe, EMCEE

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Physical tickets at: Tickets Tonight, At the door., www.ticketstonight.ca, Omega Gallery 604.732.6778

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Since 2005 the EGRC Society has been providing funds for impoverished young women from the Gansu province of China to attend university, and this year marks a milestone because the first class of EGRC-sponsored young women is graduating. Youth for Youth celebrates this occasion with a concert featuring several works from the Chinese classical repertoire, performed by young people for young people. Among its many highlights, Youth for Youth will feature a performance by one of the graduating class, soprano Zhang Fang Fang, who will travel to Vancouver with two other EGRC graduates to attend the event. Zhang Fang Fang graduated from the Lanshou University with a degree in voice. She is from a remote village of Longxi county of Gansu province, where both of her parents are peasants, chron... more...

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Christ Church Cathedral

690 Burrard Street Vancouver BC

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