The cold bluster on the Norris University Center lawn Saturday didn’t prevent more than 100 Northwestern students from showing support for NU’s first Tibetan Freedom Concert.

“This is one of the first college Tibetan freedom concerts,” said Shruti Ganguly, one of the event’s coordinators. “It’s not just that this is a freedom concert. It’s that it’s an NU-Tibetan freedom concert.”

Students who did brave the cold listened to live music and saw dancing from several Chicago-area groups.

Sponsored by NU Amnesty International, the concert aimed to raise awareness about the fight for a free Tibet, said Ganguly, a Speech sophomore. Donations made at the concert will help educate and house Sonan Dolkar, a 9-year-old Tibetan child living in India as a refugee.

Amnesty International would like to make the concert an annual event at NU and will be applying for funding, said Speech sophomore Austin Harvey, the group’s president. Students present suggested the event could be successful under better weather conditions.

“Had it been last weekend, students would have been flocking in while walking by the Lakefill,” said Emily Kissel, an Education sophomore.