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Charity Concert Welcomes Canned Food Donations

Three female performers well-known in the Chinese community perform at the Flint Center on Dec. 10 in a charity Christmas concert.

The charity concert Love Changes Everything hopes that the money and food collected during the event will help change at least in some small way the lives of those in need this holiday season.

Sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Chinese Chapter of Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGB), the River of Life Foundation, and TienLu Ministries the Dec. 10 concert at the Flint Center of Performing Arts will collect canned food for the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Three female singers famous in the Chinese-speaking world are featured in the concert: Jeanette Wang, who has won the best female vocal performance of Golden Bell Award in Taiwan; Xinru Liu, first place winner of Guangdong Provincial Singing Competition in China; Alisa Galper, best challenger of One Million Star Singing Competition in Taiwan.

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The trio will sing Christmas songs as well as their individual hits.

"The true Christmas spirit is love, joy, peace and giving," said Gerry Liu. "The Christmas charity concert calls for canned food donations for needy families and raises funds for charity organizations. It's living the true Christmas spirit. So we call for your support."

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Gerry Liu, is president of FGB's Bay Area Chinese Chapter and works as vice president of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

Collection bins for canned food can be found prior to the concert as well at local stores such as Marina Food in Cupertino, Fremont and San Mateo.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. on Dec. 10. Tickets range from $10 to $100. To purchase tickets, call 510-936-9769, 510-509-7123, or email clementchiang@yahoo.com.

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