Foodstock sur la Plage

To celebrate it's 10th anniversary, the group known as Le Fooding is hosting "Fooding a la Mer" tomorrow (Saturday) evening on the Hi Hotel Beach in Nice. The event runs from 6 p.m to midnight and 1,000 people are expected. Food is being provided by a great group of chefs and restaurants: Mauro Colagreco (Le Mirazur, Menton), Mickaël and Gaël Tourteaux (Flaveur, Nice), Armand Arnal (La

This Weekend: Party with a Purpose

This Saturday night (June 5) in St. Remy, there will be a dinner dance party to benefit the Busoga Trust, which builds wells in Uganda. Since 1982, the group has provided clean drinking water for nearly a million people. Event organizer Lucy Bakr went to Uganda in February and saw firsthand the impact of these wells on rural communities; she took the photos above which show a new well and the

Buy Art to Help Haiti

Photographer Chuck Anderson is donating 100 percent of online sales to Haiti earthquake relief. This print for example, called Lights for Drowning, is 18" x 24" and costs $45 plus shipping. See all the work for sale here.

Rafael Soldi of Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York has organized the Haiti Relief Benefit Print Sale, which you can see by clicking here. Emerging photographers have donated

Caring for Calcutta

On Monday July 27th, AngloInfo will host an informal Q&A with Dr. Gazi Rahaman, the newly elected CEO of Calcutta Rescue, an Indian NGO providing medical, social and educational services to the desperately poor in the slums of Calcutta and rural West Bengal.
The event will be held in the first-floor parlor of the Brasserie des Deux Garçons (53 Cours Mirabeau) in Aix, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A

Just One Minute Please

Can you capture the spirit of Europe in just one minute? To encourage young people to take an interest in the European Union, the EPP Group of the Committee of the Regions (don't ask me, just keep reading) is inviting all "young Europeans" to create a one-minute short. The theme should be "how to create a better environment." The top three filmmakers will win cash prizes and a trip to Brussels to

Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the World...

Here’s a great holiday gift that will not only delight someone you love but also change the life of a needy child. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is launching its second Give OneGet One (G1G1) program today. Here’s how it works. You buy a specially designed XO laptop for roughly $400 and OLPC will send two: one to you and one to an underprivileged child. Or, you can send one for just $200.

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