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September 2014: Seva Canada celebrates World Sight Day by Dining in the Dark with live music by Jim Byrnes

Seva Canada’s second annual Dine in the Dark World Sight Day sold out celebration will feature live music by the legendary, Juno award-winning, Jim Byrnes. Guests will experience dinner, musical entertainment and conversation all without their sense of sight. Every ticket purchased for the event will provide a cataract surgery for someone who is needlessly blind in some of the poorest parts of the world.

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