BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin International Music Festival will donate all proceeds of tonight’s Artists of Tomorrow concert to a relief fund for one of the victims in the theater shooting Friday morning in Aurora, Colo.
A shooter killed 12 people and injured 58 others during the midnight premier of “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.”
One of the victims, 22-yearold Petra Anderson, was a 2011 composition student and resident assistant at BIMF.
According to the Huffington Post, Anderson was shot four times and surgeons operated for five hours to remove a bullet from the back of her brain. She is expected to make a full recovery.
The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight in Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College.
Susan Strickland, a Brunswick resident who attended church with Anderson last summer, said “Petra is a lovely, poised, intelligent young woman.”
Funds raised by the concert this evening will be donated to Ready to Believe, an organization dedicated to raising money for victims of the Aurora shootings.
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