EVENTS
ART FOR HOPE 2021
Thank you to all who attended and supported Go Project Hope and Futurestuff Gallery through Art For Hope, a sale of carefully curated art, relics, vinyl and objects from around the world.
We look forward to the next event.
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Dine for Hope 2019
Thank you so much for making Dine for Hope a huge success.
Date & Time of Event: Saturday October 26th, 2019, 11 a.m.
Venue: Earth n Us Farm 7630 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33138
(nestled in the Little Haiti neighborhood).
Donation: $25.00 per child $50 per adult
The mission of Dine for Hope is to break bread and bring people together for a common cause. The focus this year will be the Comic Care comic book. Comic Care is an educational comic book tool designed to encompass the whole child, body, mind and soul. It engages refugee children 5 years old and up on the health hazards of living in a densely populated and overcrowded refugee camp. Using smart graphics with bold characters Comic Care teaches children a life lesson in every episode in a colorful and fun way. Each story embraces topics like stress and how to use mindful initiatives, yoga and breathing techniques to relieve the anxiety a child may have from the stresses of fleeing their home and living in a crowded camp. Other lessons the comic book aims to teach are safety and hygiene.
MUSIC FOR HOPE at the Edward Said National Conservatory
The Talented Pianist, Luis Alberto Bernhard performed a solo benefit concert at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Ramallah, West Bank. All proceeds were used to support cancer patients from Gaza who are seeking treatment at the Palestinian Society for Cancer Care.
Art for Hope ONLINE Auction
Browse our Beautiful collections of paintings by artists from Gaza and West Bank. Proceeds went to support our wash program at Kara Tepe Refugee Camp.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MUSIC FOR HOPE - HARMONIES DU SOIR
December 2, 2017
We would like to thank all our guests for coming out to support Go Project Hope. We would also like to thank our talented pianists for their fabulous performance.
Aleksandr Bernhard
Aleksandr has been playing piano since he was a baby and music runs in his family for many generations on both sides. He started formal lessons as a young child with Marshall Clyburn and won his first piano competition at the age of 6. At the age of twelve he was featured as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and at age 14 was a featured soloist for the inauguration of the President of Honduras. He also made several television appearances as a performer.
As he entered high school, he commenced instruction with Steinway Artist Faina Lushtak, chair of the piano department at Tulane University and renowned pianist herself. At 15 years of age he was a finalist in the Stravinsky International Piano Competition and two years later, a semi finalist in the Gina Bachaer International Piano Competition. After receiving multiple music scholarships and honors, Aleksandr chose to pursue both Piano and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon university, where he studied with Irene Schreier.
After graduating, he commenced his profession as an engineer and continued to perform. After several years as an engineer, he returned to pursue a Masters in Piano Performance from West Chester University under the tutelage of Steinway Artist Igor Resnianski. After moving to Miami in 2010 he has received specialized technical and musical coaching with renowned instructor Giselle Brodsky.
In his own words: "For me this performance is important for so many reasons. It is my first performance in several years and first performance since becoming a dad. Also very importantly, the proceeds will benefit a cause which I hold very dear given my own lineage which can be traced back to Syria. Having now my own child with this same lineage, I felt it very important to do something to help other kids who are in such a vulnerable situation because I know how important that would be to me if my own child were ever in a situation of need. I thank you all for contributing to this worthy cause and hope you enjoy our music"
Luis Alberto Bernhard
Luis A. Bernhard was born in Honduras, his father Alberto was also a pianist and his mother Celia was a music teacher. Mr. Bernhard was exposed to classical music at home since he was born but did not start playing the piano until he was nine years old. He became obsessed about classical music after watching the movie “A song to remember” based on the life and music of Frederick Chopin. The music tracks for that movie were, performed by the legendary Spanish pianist Jose Iturbi. Shortly there-after he heard a live concert performance for the first time by the Guatemalan pianist Juan De Dios Montenegro, a school mate and friend of his mother. That experience, Mr. Bernhard relates, “cemented my commitment to become a musician”. He feverishly started to learn a few pieces by ear with the help of his parents and gave his first recital six months later. Even though he had the resources at home for instruction, structured learning did not occur; he was not forced by his parents and largely became self-taught. His parents sent him to a private teacher but after two lessons he decided to continue to study on his own. He remembers that several of the keys of the teacher’s piano were sticking and that it was dreadfully out of tune. He recalls there were some spooky wood carvings on the venerable antique instrument. He continued learning to read music by himself with occasional intervention from his parents and gradually began to learn more challenging pieces on his family’s spinet.
He recalls that through high school he was so obsessed that he used to do fingering exercises at his desk during classes to conquer difficult musical passages. In 1968 he came to New Orleans to continue his education, at age 18 he received his first formal lessons with a private teacher. Later, he had an audition with laureate pianist Sylvia Zaremba, a Steinway artist and at that time, artist in residence at Tulane University. Ms. Zaremba accepted him as one of her students and worked with him for three years. After that Mr. Bernhard started concertizing in the U.S. and central America. In 1977 he was invited by the Organization of American States based in Washington D.C., to perform at a gala concert for the dignitaries and ambassadors of the American countries. The Washington Post published a favorable review of that concert stating “Mr. Bernhard is able to draw thunder out of the piano and bring out melodies out of the thickest textures”. He continued giving concerts for the next ten years. He participated in the Marguerite Long international piano competition in Paris and in the Queen Elizabeth international piano competition in Brussels in 1980 and 1983 respectively.
Mr. Bernhard is a man of many interests, he also works in the visual arts with pencil and oil. He is also a master photographer, a skill that has helped him in his 32-year career as a retinal angiographer, he currently works in that capacity at the VA hospital in Miami.