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Benefit: Ramya Harishankar’s Irvine-based Arpana Dance Company will be one of three troupes participating in a fund-raising event Feb. 23 for victims of the recent earthquake in India. Arpana will join the Huntington Beach Garba Group and the Odissi Dance Circle in a 7 p.m. performance at Sanatan Dharma Temple, 15311 S. Pioneer Blvd., Artesia. Proceeds will be donated to the Chinmaya Mission of Southern California Earthquake Relief Fund. $10 to $101. Information: (714) 838-8505 or (714) 288-0312.