On June 4th, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) hosted its 4th Youth Benefit Gala in Channing Hall at 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, from 1 to 7 pm.
After the Gala, throughout the month of June, GPA Video Editors Catherine Feng (6/19: 4 hr 6/20: 5 hr 6/21 6 hr 6/22: 4 hr), Katherine Zhu, Cassie Wang, and more, worked on polishing the draft videos, adding titles, filtering noise, then put together a showcase video for the gala, and had it uploaded to the AYLUS YouTube channel to spread around in our community.
Since 2019, GPA has hosted 3 successful youth benefit concerts, one in June 2019 for Ms Su Wei battling cancer, one in December 2019 for Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad (PFARS) to support its Campaign for the Future with a new headquarters, and the third in January 2022 to raise funds for Meals from the Heart to hundreds of local health care heroes.
Although COVID-19 pandemic had shut everything down for over 2 years, GPA didn’t want to stop there and do nothing. Since 2020, our members have hosted over 100 Save a Life events to help people in need, with many fundraising and donation drives. Now it’s time for us to continue our Youth Benefit Music program to help save more lives.
The 4th Youth Benefit Gala raised more funds to support New Jersey First Respond heroes. Members are using the funds to support local life-saving organizations in many ways!
GPA members (6/22, 3 hrs; 6/24, 3 hrs; 6/26, 4 hrs for all), including Kevin Chen, Jerry Chen, Tian Liao, Xing Liao, and Ann-Ping Shangguan, helped to compile and edit APEX International Music Competition concert videos. In 7 days, they reviewed, edited, and categorized more than 140 concert programs and 12 hours of video recordings. They also spent time producing and proofreading the final program list for the upcoming winners’ concert in Carnegie Hall.
