A Night of Comedy To Benefit the Smithtown Rotary Club

The Smithtown Rotary Club would like to invite you to an Evening of Comedy. 

Our host will be Adam Lucidi most recently from the New York Comedy Club.  The comics will include Brian Jian, Ray Marshall and Paul Corrigan as seen on the NY Comedy Scene, The Underground Comedy Festival and heard on Sirius/XM Radio.

Our Headliner is Damon Rozier.

Damon is currently the #1 ranked "sit-down" comedian in the country.

Fourteen years ago Damon Rozier was in a tragic motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. However, Damon doesn't view himself as being disabled but "differently-a bled" and since the accident has overcome boundaries no one thought were possible.

Damon started doing comedy because he had never seen anyone in a wheel chair doing it and decided he could bring a NEW and UNIQUE version of comedy to the stage. In his career as a comedian he has been voted comedian of the month by the Humor Mill Magazine and was the FIRST COMEDIAN IN HISTORY to appear on BET's Comic View.

He is currently headlining shows all across the country. 

Ticket price: $25.00 online  $30.00 at the door

Food:  Finger food/appetizers are inlcuded in the ticket price

Cash beer/wine bar

• Beer:  pre-purchase tickets at the door
•          3 beers for $10.00
• Wine: pre-purchase tickets at the door
•          2 glasses of wine for $10.00
• Beer: purchase at the bar
•         $4.00 per cup
• Wine: purchase at the bar
•         $6.00 per glass

 
50/50 raffle: 3 prizes: payout depends upon the amount of tickets sold.

Proceeds to go to help fund Smitthown Rotary's charitable giving such as:

Rotary Club of Smithtown project to provide clean water to rural communities in Madagascar

It is a proven fact that when a community in a developing country gains access to clean water, its child mortality rate is cut in half.  The Rotary Club of Smithtown is developing a program to bring clean water to rural communities in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world and one that has been plunged into further poverty under a military-backed dictatorship that assumed power in 2009.  The Smithtown Rotarians will partner with members of a sister club in Madagascar (The Rotary Club of Mahajanga) and the Madagascar Ankizy Fund (www.ankizy.org) to institute a water disinfection program that will eradicate water-borne illnesses and parasites and their detrimental effects on the health of tens of thousands of rural villagers living in northwestern Madagascar.  This region is very hot and arid and provides few opportunities for rural villagers beyond subsistence farming (82.2% of rural villagers earn less than $230/year). A simple, low-cost, and effective system of water acquisition and purification will be instituted to produce clean drinking water at the household level. Clear plastic durable bottles or bags will be filled with water from streams and rivers on a daily basis and placed on specially-designed racks in direct sunlight for 5-6 hours.  The combination of UV-A rays and temperatures above 120°F combine to inactivate or kill microorganisms (e.g., 99.9% of fecal coliforms) that cause many of the major illnesses in poor rural communities.  It is used successfully in other equatorial to semi-tropical areas throughout the world and now, for the first time, will be used in Madagascar to drastically reduce the incidence of disease and death, especially among children.