Cornell's Big Red Relief will host a panel discussion about Iraqi refugees on April 8 and a benefit concert April 11 to aid those refugees.

The panel discussion, which is free and open to the public, is slated for Tuesday, April 8, at 5 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. It will feature Judge Ra'id Juhi Hamadi Al-Sa'edi, former chief investigative judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal and the Clarke Middle East Fellow at Cornell Law School; Maureen White of the International Rescue Committee; David Siddhartha Patel, assistant professor of government; and Omer Bajwa, Muslim pastor for Cornell's Muslim Educational and Cultural Association.

The Whistling Shrimp theater group will host the April 11 concert at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. The event will showcase such Cornell performance groups as the Hangovers, Nothing but Treble, Raas, Anything Goes, the Dazzlers, BASE, Illuminations and local rock group AYURVEDA.

Big Red Relief concerts, which began in 2005, have raised an average of $10,000 each year. For 2008, the funds will benefit the International Rescue Committee, which provides aid for war refugees who have fled Iraq.

Concert tickets cost $10 and will be sold at http://cornelltickets.com and at Willard Straight Hall. Commemorative T-shirts will be sold at the concert for $10.