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Gitameit invites you to
An All Artists’ Exchange Performance, Yangon.

INYA THAYE? INYA BAWE?

With Guest Artists -
Thomas Buckner, New York
Kamala Cesor, Dancer,New York
Khun Pichet Klunchon, Dancer, Bangkok
Shwemann Win Maung, Dancer, New York
Kit Young, Pianist, Composer, Beijing
Manual Lutgenhorst, Set Designer, Chiangmai
Shwemann Chan Thar, Dancer, Yangon
San Oo, Poet, Performance Artist, Yangon
Nyein Wai, Poet, Yangon
Myat Kyawt, Artist, Yangon
Parami Shoon, Composer, Pianist, Mandalay
Myanmar Pyi Kyauk Seinn, Hsaing Saya, Yangon
Mannyarpyae U Tin, Slide Guitarist, Yangon
Thiri Maung Maung, Hsdaing Saya, Yangon
Moe Naing, Pianist, Yangon
Htun Htun, Singer, Yangon

Time - 6:30 pm
Date - December 5th to 6th

Gitameit Music Center,
219, Kaya Thu Kha Lane,
Kanbe Station Rd.,
Yankin,
YANGON.

Contact:
099 031 550
095 068 613
095 047 365

Gitameit Music Center delightedly presents:

A Night On Broadway

A concert..
Friday, September 26th, 2008
6:30 P.M - 8:30 P.M (GMT +6:30)
at J’s Bistro Snack & Bar
Mya Kyun Thar Amusement Park (across Sedona Hotel)
Kaba-Aye Pagoda Road, Yangon

!!!!!  FREE ADMISSION  !!!!!

Solo and duet songs from many well-known shows;
Evita, Jesus Christ superstar, Les Miserable, Rent and many more!!!
For more information, please contact: 09 504 7365; 09 903 1550
gitameitevents@gmail.com

On May 29th, in the midst of the chaos and devastation that followed Cyclone Nargis, Gitameit celebrated a fund raising concert for Nargis victims by holding the Daffodil Song concert. Some highlights of the evening included Saw James conducting Attachment of Cloud, Htun Htun’s rendition of If I were a rich man, and Broadway Soloist Pyae Phyo Han. Here are some photos from the event.

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This bad road makes the village even more distant from the outside world. Along the road people are waiting for someone who will drive them somewhere. They had to leave their homes. There is no doubt, if they told you their story the cyclone would be the reason and I am sure you would be left speechless after hearing their story.

The village is located on the side of the Wah Ba Lout Thout river. The location is itself quite close to the sea. So the huge tidal wave came to the village and killed the helpless villagers at dark night on the 2nd of May. They will certainly not forget that fearful night.

After Nargis destroyed the village, a family who had lived in a big house could only rebuild a small hut with a plastic tarp. Those who had lived in huts became homeless. They have only received some plastic sheet from a private group - and that would be still nothing when it rains.

The village was so beautiful before the cyclone Nargis came the villagers said.

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In the spirit of Gitameit, the Yale Spizzwinks are working with the Gitameit Music Center in Rangoon, Burma to bring a choir to the United States in 2008. It will be the first ever visit of a Burmese choir to the US.

Who is involved?

So far our major supporters are the Yale Spizzwinks and the Yale Spizzwinks Alumni Association, but we need your help too! We’ll need to purchase plane tickets, set up home-stays, find performance opportunities and secure visas for the performers.

Donate to this project

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It’s time for an update from Myanmar. I’ve been discouraged to see the type of coverage coming out of CNN and BBC and others regarding relief efforts underway there. And despite the fact that I am in the US, I’m still in daily contact with our people in Yangon, and therefore may be able to continue to provide a better sense of some aspects of the realities of providing relief in Myanmar than you will get if I leave you to fend for yourselves with nothing but television news as your guide! So here goes…

Among the biggest challenges to relief efforts right now is the distribution issue. This is the impression being given by international news agencies, but the perspective they take in reporting it is different than mine. Let me back up and give you some history. Before the cyclone, there were quite a few international, non-UN development organizations, as well as some local development organizations, working in the Ayewaddy Delta. These organizations had field offices in many of the main towns and larger village areas and had built up working relationships with local authority structures and local community members. When the cyclone hit, these agencies and their staff remained in place. Their international staff may not have been allowed to go out to those field offices post-cyclone, but the local and international staff who were already there were able to remain. This was threatened for awhile, but in the end, their continued presence was successfully negotiated. Certainly the lack of ability to put additional people in those field offices and out into the surrounding communities was a problem, but there was a presence.

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This is 53 minutes of unbelievable video footage taken and edited together by Burmese citizens. The first 6 and a half minutes was filmed during Cyclone Nargis, and the rest was filmed in the days following the cyclone. The areas in the video that have been completely destroyed are Laputta and Bokalay. The final 10 minutes are extremely upsetting, so be warned.

::: WARNING ::: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS DISTURBING IMAGES OF DEATH

More families reached:

We are in regular contact with approximately 25,000 survivors, around Rangoon and in the Delta. We are accessing the delta via privately rented boats; and we are centralizing distribution in target areas outside Rangoon and in the Delta. Daily, our organization grows in effectiveness and our reach expands.

More supplies provided:

We bring rice, water purification tablets, tarps and ropes for shelter, medicine, and sanitary supplies.

Medical Teams in Place:

A network of Burmese medical personnel is working with from bases we’ve established in the Delta. From these bases, volunteers radiate out to remote villages with medical supplies.

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