Highway Lights performs the acoustic version of their newest track in studio

On June 4, 2012, Highway Lights came into the Eating Disorders of York Region studio to perform, for the very first time, an acoustic version of their newly released track, “Run With Me.”

Highway Lights will be featured at Rock for Charity 2.0, a concert where all proceeds will benefit EDOYR. Six other bands will also be performing.

Check out the Facebook event page for more information (and don’t forget to RSVP “YES!”).

Follow the event on Twitter.

Have questions? E-mail info@edoyr.com.

Rock for Charity 2.0: Featuring Four Nines Fine

Four Nines Fine was in studio on May 28 to talk about Rock for Charity 2.0.

Rock for Charity 2.0 is a concert that will benefit EDOYR. It will take place on June 21 at the El Mocambo in Toronto.

For full event details, and to RSVP, please visit our Facebook event page.

If you have any questions, e-mail info@EDOYR.com.

Show Your True Colours at Rock for Charity 2.0 on June 21

 

Leviana, our Events and Communications Coordinator, holds a huge bag of “Show Your True Colours” buttons! We just got them in the mail today from Safe@School, a joint project of the Ontario Teacher’s Federation (OTF) and the Centre ontarien de prevention des agressions (COPA). It is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education. 

Thanks for the buttons! 

We can’t wait for our “Show Your True Colours” campaign to evolve even more than it already has!

You can get your own button at Rock for Charity 2.0 on June 21.

Under one month until Rock for Charity 2.0

Rock for Charity 2.0 is under one month away. That means that in 30-days, the El Mocambo could be filled to capacity with people of all ages listening to local bands Four Nines Fine, Highway Lights, Couriers, TNG, House of Coconuts, Ravyn Red and Eric Conlon of Lambs Become Lions. The audience will be bopping to the sounds of the Greater Toronto Area: Acoustic, rock, alternative, indie and hard-rock.

A photo booth called “Ladies not Barbies, Men not Ken” celebrating how wonderful we are in our own skin will also be set up. Attendees can get their photo taken with a donation and then receive their photo via e-mail.

The photo booth idea was sparked by the media attention surrounding Valeria Lykyano, the 21-year-old Ukranian model from Russia who has undergone countless surgeries to have the face and body of  Barbie.

Rock for Charity 2.0 will celebrate the skin we were born in and the lives we have been given, as well as honour self-worth and self-love.

So, come out on June 21 to Rock for Charity 2.0 at the El Mocambo in Toronto to celebrate summer, happiness and love.

Doors open at 7:00pm. The show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10 at the door, or $8 with a canned food donation that will support the El Mocambo’s food drive. All proceeds will go to EDOYR.

In January, we hosted Rock for Charity (the original in the concert series). Volunteers raised $1,407 the night of the concert, but EDOYR received a call earlier that day from a new friend of the organization who said they would match whatever was raised at the event. In total, Rock for Charity raised $2,814.

Those funds helped EDOYR provide support for people suffering from eating disorders as well as for their families and friends. It has also helped EDOYR continue outreach initiatives across the community that spread eating disorder awareness and education.

Ultimately, the funds, friends and awareness we can raise together benefit everyone in the community. Whether we know it or not, someone we know is suffering from some sort of disordered eating or eating disorder. We are all affected.

RSVP online, today.

Rock for Charity 2.0 at the El Mocambo – June 21!

Did you have fun at Rock for Charity in January? If you did, then you should come to the second benefit concert in the series at the El Mocambo. You should also bring all your friends. Don’t worry, even if you missed out on the first one, you and your friends are invited, too.

Here is your chance to rock out for charity!

As it also happens, June 21 is the second day of summer. What is a better way to celebrate than at the famous and historic El Mocambo with friends dancing the night away?

The concert is volunteer run and will benefit EDOYR. We will also be collecting canned food donations for El Mocambo’s Serving Charity.

RSVP online today!

Thanks in advance for all your support and great effort! We are really excited to see this event raise even more than our first concert did. The record we hope to break: $2,814.00. Can we do it? With your help, of course we can!

Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10 OR $8 with a canned food item!

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FEATURING:

FOUR NINES FINE

HIGHWAY LIGHTS

RAVYN RED

COURIERS

TNG

ERIC CONLON of LAMBS BECOME LIONS

HOUSE OF COCONUTS

Rock for Charity!

Rock for Charity is “friend-raising” at its finest! Planned and organized by volunteers, this charity rock show included a raffle and live bands! Raising $1,407, this amount was doubled by an anonymous donor!!!
Please read the article below for more details:

Rock for Charity Big Success
Friend Doubles Funds at Fundraiser
BY LEVIANA COCCIA

Despite the snowy weather last Thursday, it was a hot night at the El Mocambo, which was Rockin’ for Charity in support of Eating Disorders of York Region. 

Rock for Charity at the El Mo was a benefit concert featuring local bands raising money to assist the registered non-profit organization to provide care for families affected by eating disorders as well as free support programs. 

DJ XITMINT & DJ LOVE kicked off the party with pump-up music, which encouraged raffle ticket sales and sent listeners to the dance floor. Highway Lights and Richmond Hill’s own littleSUNDAY kept people on the dance floor. 

Last, but certainly not least, was Stouffville band Four Nines Fine who rocked the El Mo’s old, graffiti walls until the early morning. 

Eating Disorders of York Region raffled off a pair of Toronto Maple Leaf tickets, an iTunes gift card and a Tim Horton’s gift card, with winners claiming their prizes just before midnight. 

After covering costs and raffle prizes, $1,407 was raised for the agency. 

However, the day Rock for Charity was held, a new friend and supporter promised she would match whatever sum was raised, so in total, the organization raised $2,814. 

Janice Morgante, executive director of Eating Disorders of York Region, says the organization hopes to build on the idea behind “friend-raising” to “encompass a concept of A Circle of Friends”. 

A Circle of Friends would see an individual and a circle of his or her own friends supporting the organization and eating disorder awareness. 

“For instance, if one person supports us with… a sustaining gift of $10 per month online and encourages friends to do like-wise, the level of support is increased to $60 per month,” Ms. Morgante said. 

Eating Disorders continues to offer free group support programs as well as raising awareness about eating disorders, something Ms. Morgante says is possible “if many friends support [the organization] with a small amount and encourage their friends to do likewise…” 

If you would like to donate or get more information, visit www.edoyr.com, or follow the organization on Twitter @EDOYR 

Leviana Coccia is a Richmond Hill media student at the University of Guelph-Humber. JANUARY 26, 2012—- THE LIBERAL —- RICHMOND HILL AND THORNHILL

Natalia Tvoronovitch and Leviana Coccia, the organizers, Tara Snow, EDOYR placement student, and Janice Morgante, Executive Director at EDOYR pose with the big cheque!