[NEohioPAL]April 21, 2005 - It's Daniel Thompson's 70th Birthday Party (and fundraiser)

[Oonawolf at aol.com]

Dear Friends,

Please pass along the information so that we may have good attendance.  Call 
Ayman at the Algebra Tea House, 2136 Murray Hill Rd. (in LIttle Italy) at 
(216) 421-9007 to make your reservations, if you are dining with us; and so that 
Ayman will know how much food to prepare.

Beginning at 7:00 p.m., a delicious "Libyan style" vegetarian cous-cous 
dinner will be served for $7.00.  Four dollars from every meal will go to benefit 
The Homeless Grapevine, an empowerment project of the Northeast Ohio Coalition 
for the Homeless.  If you cannot attend, please consider contacting 
neoch at neoch.org to make your donation.  We intend to close the evening around 10:00 p.m. 
or so.

Sales of Drumplay CDs and cassettes, featuring Daniel Thompson, including 
posters and books of his poetry, will also be offered for sale to benefit NEOCH, 
and its publishing arm, The Homeless Grapevine.  We will honor Daniel if we 
attend, and help out this worthwhile organization which advocates for the 
less-fortunate among us.  The Homeless Grapevine newspaper gives voice to the issues 
of homelessness affecting Cleveland, and across America. 

Otherwise, this is a free event.  April 21 would have been Daniel's 70th 
birthday.  We hope that we can raise needed funds through your donations 
benefitting the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless - to which Daniel Thompson 
contributed and gave his support.  We could do no less in observance of our poet 
laureate's 70th birthday.  Special guest, J. Scott Franklin, trumpet/spoken 
word, has been added to the bill, and will open for Drumplay as well as join 
our set.  See you on Thursday @ 7:00 p.m. at the Algebra Tea House, 2136 Murray 
Hill Rd., (in LIttle Italy), Cleveland, Ohio.. 

Peace,

James Onysko
james at drumplay.com

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