Light Up With InMotion

After building schools last year, InMotion is now bringing light to Africa

By Danijela Demarin

A charity concert titled “Light Up With InMotion” will take place on May 3 at the P. M. Cocktail Bar in Prague 2, where students from different universities will gather in an effort to improve education in rural areas.

This is the second event of this nature. The first one was held at the same venue in April last year, when UNYP Student Council and The Birthday Suit joined forces to raise funds for the African Rural School Foundation and support establishing schools in Uganda. Sponsored by the club, The Birthday Suit, Oriflame, King Aseem and many more, the concert was a great success, raising over 25,000 CZK.

After that accomplishment, UNYP students decided to make the charity concert an annual event, helping to raise funding for diverse causes and improve educational systems in places in need.

This year, the scope of the event has been expanded to include a number of other Prague universities. Negotiations were still in progress at deadline, so the exact schools will be revealed in the near future. The concert program includes performances by various DJs, UNYP’s InMotion Dance Team, and an American-style auction of UNYP Blazers, with the highest bidders winning dates with the players.

The main goal of this year’s event is to financially support One Million Lights, a nonprofit organization based in California that provides solar lighting systems for children in rural areas, enabling them to be educated. Universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Hendrix and Wharton have previously supported the same organization in its missions around the world, especially Africa, Asia and sensitive parts of the Americas.

“Our main goal is to increase children’s possibility to be educated the same as we are, no matter where they are located,” says Martina Kavanova, one of the organizers. “We are very much aware of the importance of education and therefore want to help as much as we can.”

InMotion on charity event 2011

The UNYP dance team was established in December 2010 when two student council members united their passion for dance and gathered a great variety of talents. Later named InMotion, it has performed at diverse events such as UNYP parties, charity concerts and sports tournaments.

After seeing how easy it is to help, the InMotion team decided to organize this year’s party and give their contribution to the world.

Entrance fees for the party will be 100 CZK for students and 150 CZK for nonstudents. Tickets will be soon available via Ticketstream.cz

For more about the One Million Lights organization: 

http://onemillionlights.org/

The InMotion Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNYP-InMotion-Dance-Team/166020403433285

Light Up With InMotion on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/events/380255948675101/380768751957154/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity