Do-gooders cavort to conga beats—with K’Naan—at the Hope Rising after-party
Do-gooders cavort to conga beats—with K’Naan—at the Hope Rising after-party
By Fraser Abe | July 7, 2011
By Fraser Abe | 07/07/2011
Alicia Keys, Ngozi Paul and K'naan (Image: George Pimentel)
May 3, Rosewater Supper Club. After-hours at the Rosewater usually means loose-tied Bay Street types swirling grand cru and planning their next hostile takeover—not the conga-beating, boogying and boisterous boozing that broke out at the after-party for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Hope Rising concert. Supporters poured into the decadent downtown resto following a fundraising show at the Sony Centre, which featured Alicia Keys, Rufus Wainwright, K’naan and Jully Black. The party peaked when a corps of conga drummers started playing along to the backbeat of the DJ set, enticing even the suits to shake a tail feather. Up on the mezzanine, K’naan was too preoccupied with fending off a throng of female fans to hit the dance floor. At the concert he’d brought fans onstage to sing his anthem “Wavin’ Flag”; mercifully, no sloppy renditions were attempted in his honour at the after-party.
77418 Harry Belafonte, a participant in the event’s round table on philanthropy (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising1.jpg 600 400 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising1/ jul11hoperising1 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77419 Alicia Keys with Stephen Lewis (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising2.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising2.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising2.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising2/ jul11hoperising2 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77420 Rapper-poet K’naan (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising3.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising3.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising3.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising3/ jul11hoperising3 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77421 Queen of fashion week Robin Kay (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising4.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising4/ jul11hoperising4 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77422 Soul sister Jully Black (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising5.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising5/ jul11hoperising5 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77423 Stephen Lewis’s daughter Ilana Landsberg-Lewis and her wife, Parachute Club singer Lorraine Segato (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising6.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising6.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising6.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising6/ jul11hoperising6 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77424 Chanteuse Holly Cole (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising7.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising7.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising7.jpg 400 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising7/ jul11hoperising7 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77425 Ida Mukuka, field rep for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and dub poet D’bi Young (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising8.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising8.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising8.jpg 600 400 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising8/ jul11hoperising8 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77426 Afro-Cuban drum ensemble Iya Ire (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising9.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising9.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising9.jpg 600 400 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising9/ jul11hoperising9 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77427 ’Da Kink in My Hair actress Ngozi Paul (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising10.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising10.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising10.jpg 600 400 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising10/ jul11hoperising10 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77428 Emcee Jian Ghomeshi and the new first lady of the Opposition, Olivia Chow (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising11.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising11.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperising11.jpg 600 400 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperising11/ jul11hoperising11 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)
77429 (Image: George Pimentel) Hope Rising Hope Rising https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperisingIntro.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperisingIntro.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jul11hoperisingIntro.jpg 656 283 [] https://torontolife.com/city/hope-rising-after-party/slide/jul11hoperisingintro/ jul11hoperisingintro 0 0
(Image: George Pimentel)