Medical Students Take to the Stage to Help City’s Homeless

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University School of Medicine students take center stage Saturday, April 1, for the annual Evening of the Arts, a fundraiser for the city’s medical clinics for the homeless and needy.

The curtain will rise for the Evening of the Arts at 7 p.m. Saturday at the University Place Conference Center auditorium on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are available at the door.

The program features students displaying their vocal, instrumental and dance talents. IU School of Medicine faculty, residents and staff also perform.

One of the acts will be a concerto written by a first-year medical student and performed by five of his fellow students. Benjamin Lippincott, a 2000 graduate of Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, wrote the composition while a student at Indiana University. He will play the piano for the piece, entitled Concerto Allegro. Also performing will be violinists Wes Lackey, Janine Zee-Cheng and Amelia Davis; cellist Jennifer Overton; and Amanda Reahard playing the viola.

Art work and photography produced by the medical students will be on display and sold that evening at a silent auction.

Proceeds from Evening of the Arts will help an estimated 1,000 people served by Wheeler Mission, Genessaret Free Clinic, St. Thomas Clinic and Indianapolis homeless programs.

This year marks the 15th consecutive year the medical students have staged Evening of the Arts. Tickets for the 2 1/2- hours of performances are $15 for adults and $10 for students.

More information about the program can be found at www.iupui.edu/~iusmeota.