Afro-Caribbean Benefit Concert at Rose Live Music

As a start-up organization, Transdiaspora Network, Inc. is officially launching its program, in collaboration with the Rose Art Foundation, by organizing an Afro-Caribbean Benefit Concert at Rose Live Music (www.liveatrose.com) on June 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The event will send a needed reminder to the Brooklyn community at large, and its youngest population in particular, about the urgency to be more proactive on the HIV prevention topic. Current reported HIV seroprevalence rates in Brooklyn are among the highest in the United States and the HIV infection rate among youth is getting astonishingly higher every year.

For the occasion, Mr. Yosvany Terry, recognized as a "spectacular talent" on the jazz scene, will be playing with Ye-dé-bgé & the Afro-Caribbean Legacy. This project was recently commissioned by the Standford Jazz Workshop to explore the enduring legacy of the Arará culture that came from West Africa and continues to thrive in Cuba and throughout the Caribbean. These influences can also be felt in the United States, as the Arará's folkloric traditions trickled into the early music of New Orleans, which eventually developed into jazz.

To RSVP, submmit your name and number of guests at info@transdiasporanetwork.org

* Purchase tickets online at www.transdiasporanetwork.org

* Or checks can be sent by mail to:

TRANSDIASPORA NETWORK, Inc.

159 Baltic Street, Suite 8

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tickets in advance, before June 1st ---- $40.

From June 2nd to June 11th ------------- $45.

At the door -------------------------------- $50

By train: L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan, J-M to Marcy

By car: Metropolitan exit off the B.Q.E.
We are located on Grand Street btwn Havemeyer and Marcy off the Williamsburg Bridge (take the two right lanes, second exit make a left onto Havemeyer, right on Grand)