On Saturday afternoon, March 30, 2013, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, and Archpriest Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations for the Orthodox Church in America, attended a benefit concert, “Roots for Future,” at the Abigail Adams Auditorium, New York, NY.
Also in attendance was His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Sponsored by the Diana Bagrationi Foundation, the concert featured Georgian folk songs and dances presented by the Ensemble “Pesvebi.” The event was held to support the Pediatric Department of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and the Oncology and Hematology Department of the M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital in the Republic of Georgia.
