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News Bring a Jar of Change, Sample Emerging Songwriters in NYC Benefit Aug. 21 Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman, the creative team of Off-Broadway's I Love You Because, are the featured songwriters in the second ArtCents Benefit Concert, Aug. 21 in Manhattan.

Presented by ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty), the concerts at the Triad on West 72nd Street are devoted to emerging songwriters — and helping kids at risk. Admission is a jar of change.

I Love You Because will be seen in regional theatres in the coming year, and a cast album will be released by PS Classics (www.psclassics.com).

The Aug. 21 benefit concert features performances by Marie-France Arcilla (Shout!), David A. Austin (I Love You Because), Colin Hanlon (Rent, I Love You Because), Lisa Howard (…Spelling Bee) and writer Cunningham. Salzman will accompany on piano. There is also a two-drink minimum. The Triad on New York's Upper West Side is at 158 W. 72nd St.

For reservations for the 7 PM concert, call (212) 706-1516 or send an email to [email protected].

* The July 17 inaugural ArtCents Benefit Concert, which featured the music of Stephen Barnett, raised more than $1,100 in change.

All proceeds from the concert benefit ASTEP. Visit www.createsomethinggood.org to learn more. Future concert dates will be announced shortly.

Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP) is a non-profit organization "which mobilizes the global community of artists to create positive change for young people in need worldwide. …ASTEP hosts experience programs in which teaching artists immerse themselves into poverty-stricken communities to educate youth on issues ranging from racism to AIDS awareness to personal hygiene through the universal language of art."

ArtCents is the primary fundraising effort to support the ASTEP Arts-In-Action Experiences. For the month of August, ASTEP asks working arts professionals on and Off Broadway — including the companies of Altar Boyz, Jersey Boys, Sweeney Todd, The Wedding Singer, the Juilliard School, Cargenie Hall and the Urban Bush Women Dance Company — to deposit spare their change in donation to ASTEP.

With ArtCents, ASTEP "endeavors to prove that within the art community Small Change indeed makes Big Change." The ASTEP board of directors is comprised of Mary-Mitchell Campbell (founder/chair), Michelle Miller (vice-chair), Mark Canavera (treasurer), Jessica Walling Stokes (secretary), Gavin Creel, Deb Lapidus, Anne L. Nathan, Timothy Thomas and Susan Vargo.

 
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