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Upcoming Fundraisers

Want a piece of me?!?! Why yes...yes we do!

Belly Dance New England has always supported dancers' fundraising events for a variety of charities by helping to spread the word far and wide. The New England belly dance community is generous, hardworking, and raises thousands of dollars each year for everything from animal welfare to women's rights indeveloping countries.

Belly Dance New England is pleased to announce that we have chosen three organizations as our "official" charitable causes. Each has a different focus, but the same goal - to save lives through the donation of human blood, tissue, and organs. They are:

However, we are not asking for your money, your talent, or your baked goods. We just want a piece of *you*. We want you to give blood, sign up with the national marrow registry, and tobecome a card-carrying organ donor. If you have your health, you are rich beyond measure. Sharing that with others is the ultimate gift.

2010 Fundraisers

  • Jan. 2: Jesi Lobello hosted Esprit du Corps (Beverly, MA) to send Aepril Schaile to Bellyfusions in Paris. Raised $1100.
  • Jan. 17: The Ocean State NBDA hosted Hearts and Hips IV to benefit Little Rhody Bully Breed Club and the American Red Cross Haitian relief effort.
    • Raised $700 for Little Rhody Club; $100 for Red Cross
  • Feb. 27: The Yale Belly Dance Society raised $750 for New Haven's Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen at their annual Hips Against Hunger show.
  • Feb. 28: Badriya al Badia hosted the Hafli for Haiti (Somerville, MA) to benefit Partners in Health and raised $1228.
  • March 21: North Shore NBDA hosted their Rites of Rebirth Annual Fundraiser (Beverly MA) to benefit Beverly Bootstraps Community Service. Raised $600.
  • March 27: Samantha Selig and Baseema Moirae hosted Shimmies for a Cure Quatro! (Somerville MA) to benefit the Pan Mass Challenge and raised $3200.
  • April 16: The Maine NBDA hosted Hips for Hope: A Middle-Eastern Dinner and Show (Ogunquit ME). Proceeds benefited ?
  • May 1: The Hippy Chix and the Sunflower Girls hosted the 2nd Annual Bellies for Breasts (Hudson MA) Proceeds benefited the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk.
  • May 1: Elena el Amar hosted the Belly Dance for a Cure (Plymouth, MA) to benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, and raised $1600.
  • May 15: Hip Rock NBDA hosted the 4th Annual Belly Dance for the Troops, Kingston MA
  • Aug. 18: Meiver hosted Baraka! (Cambridge, MA) a benefit for MataHari, and raised $1455.
  • Sept. Aepril Schaile's Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre hosted an online fundraiser for Libby Rowe and her family, and raised $1785.
  • Sept. 18 Baseema and Samantha Selig hosted a Belly Dance Brunch for Libby Rowe and her family (Beverly, MA), and raised $450.
  • Oct. 16: Goddess Delight raised $3,150 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at "Shakin' for a Cure" (Fall River, MA).

  • Oct. 16: The Helping Hips hosted their third annual Belly Dance Charity Gala (Taunton, MA) a benefit for The Bridge Center, and raised $4000.
  • Oct. 17: Badriya Al Badi'a hosted Raks Spooki (Arlington, MA) a benefit for Women for Women International, and raised $1260.
  • Oct. 23: Shakti Tribal Dance and WAGE presented Dark Goddess Circle (Poultney, VT), a benefit for Rutland County Women‘s Network and Shelter, and raised $108.
  • Nov. 14: The Desert Wind Concert and Middle-Eastern Bazaar (Greenfield, MA) raised $1070 for Temple Israel.
  • Dec. 3: Shakti Tribal Dance (Poultney, VT) raised $238 for the Rutland County Women‘s Network and Shelter at their "Maiden, Mother, Crone" benefit.
  • Dec. 4: The Ahlam Selene Dance Company premiered "Raks Nativity: A Christmas Pageant in Dance" (Chelmsford, MA) and raised $1404 to benefit Cradles to Crayons.
  • Dec. 19: "Shimmies for Hope" (Cambridge, MA) raised $1225 for the Seasons Hospice Foundation.

Money Raised to Date in 2011

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The New England belly dance community is extraordinarily kind and generous. This page highlights the community's great fundraising work - past and present. In 2010, you all raised $26,418 for charity! Shall we aim for $30,000 in 2011?

If you have a fundraiser coming up, email me and we'll post it. If you have sponsored a fundraiser in 2010 and it's not listed here, email me so your efforts can be counted!

Not exactly a local fundraiser, but it's a really cool idea, and I'm sure we all know at least one person serving overseas. Skin Can Do makes something called "Combat-Ready Balm", a salve designed to heal heavily irritated and damaged skin. A soldiers' wife sent some to her husband in Iraq, who said it was just the thing for sand flea bites and sunburn! You can donate money to send care packages of Combat-Ready Balm, Lip Balm, and soap to our troops oversea. Skin Can Do takes care of packaging and shipping. If you want your package to go to a particular soldier, Skin Can Do will take care of that, too!