by Noella Noelophile®
(Photo courtesy of Alain McLaughlin, and used with permission.)
Music, love and community are on the agenda next Thursday evening.
So is a path towards solving the problems of hunger and inequity.
How? Through GLIDE’s Annual Holiday Jam, happening at The Masonic this Thursday, November 14th.
Themed “Dare to Love”, the 7:00 pm concert is a fundraiser for GLIDE community services, which include their Daily Free Meals program to San Francisco’s most in-need individuals and families.
If you’re not familiar with GLIDE, they’re a nonprofit which has served the Tenderloin and the San Francisco community since 1963. But that phrase barely does them justice.
(Graphic courtesy of GLIDE, and used with permission.)
On their website, GLIDE describe themselves as a “social justice movement, social service provider and spiritual community dedicated to strengthening communities and transforming lives.”
In other words, they’re love with its work clothes on.
In addition to GLIDE’s Daily Free Meals program, their outreach includes their Women’s Center, which serves survivors of domestic violence. And their 5 Keys Charter School, which offers on-site adult education to traditionally underserved communities. Not to mention their Unconditional Legal Clinic, their Family, Youth and Childcare Center, their Recovery Circle, their health-care services…
“GLIDE’s mission of unconditional love, radical inclusion and social justice is sorely needed in this world, now more than ever,” says GLIDE President and CEO Karen Hanrahan in a recent press release. “In the face of all that challenges us today, it’s vital that we join together and dare to love. By doing so, we bring hope and light to the people we serve.”
(Photo courtesy of Alain McLaughlin, and used with permission.)
Now, what will you hear and experience at the Holiday Jam? Some of the best the Bay Area–and the world–has to offer.
(Photograph courtesy of Ledisi, and used with permission.)
Twelve-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Ledisi will be giving a special performance.
(Photograph courtesy of Edward Gajdel, and used with permission.)
Grammy Award-winning singer Lisa Fischer will be on hand.
(Photo courtesy of Alain McLaughlin, and used with permission.)
So will the world-renowned GLIDE Ensemble and the Change Band.
(Photo courtesy of Nino Fernandez, and used with permission.)
And Grammy-nominated multiracial and multiage hip hop crew Alphabet Rockers will have you inspired, and wanting to move to the beat!
But your ears aren’t the only senses in for a feast. Some of the best Bay Area restaurants will be there, offering attendees the opportunity to taste their signature specialties!
Individual tickets for GLIDE’s Annual Holiday Jam range from $50 to $100. Sponsorships are also available, and you’ll find more information on this link.
GLIDE’s Annual Holiday Jam happens Thursday evening, November 14th, at 7:00 pm, at the Masonic, 1111 California Street, between Taylor and Jones, in San Francisco. Doors open at 5:30 pm for the program.