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Friday, August 8, 2008

Street sales updates

Hi everyone,

heART is a Fund-Raising Project organized in support of NUH Patientcare Charity Fund. This project aims to raise fund for the Blood/Marrow Transplant for Kids ("BMT 4 Kids") Programme by selling reusable shopping bags with unique designs. You can view the pictures of the shopping bags on our Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14482647187.

Following are some details of the street sales we are carrying out:

Time: 10am-1pm (Morning shift), 2pm-5pm (Afternoon shift)
Date: This Sunday (10th August, Both shifts), next Monday (11th August, Morning shift only) and next Sunday (17th August, Both shifts),
Venue: Orchard and Bugis

To join us in our street sales, please sms/email your name, HP, email and preferred date(s)/shift(s) to 9194 1471/ yfc.heART@gmail.com.

CIP hours will be given accordingly, depending on the number of shifts you take on. Extra CIP will also be awarded according to number of bags sold. You are also encouraged to bring your friends along as volunteers will be grouped in pairs to sell the shopping bags.

If there are any enquiries, feel free to contact Tiantian (HP: 9194 1471), Aaron Ng (HP: 9127 0856), or Jerrold (9147 6080), or email us at yfc.heART@gmail.com. Please support us for this charitable cause! Your help will be much appreciated (:

-heART-

9:50 AM

Sunday, July 13, 2008

heART Art Workshop

Group heART is organizing an art workshop for beneficiaries under NUH Patientcare Charity Fund and students from selected primary schools. We will create the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle made by reusable shopping bags during the workshop. Details of the workshop are as follows:

Time: 9am-3pm, 3 August 2008
Venue: Hwa Chong Institution (College Section) Hall
What to expect:
· Drawing paper and paints provided for free!
· Learn useful art skills and create your own artwork!
· Get the chance to submit your artwork to “My heART, My DREAM” Art competition and win attractive prizes!
· Enjoy nice lunch provided for free!
· Get to draw a portion of Singapore’s largest jigsaw puzzle made by reusable shopping bags and get CIP hours for it!
· Witness the great moment of a new world record!!

To registrate, please email your name, NRIC, class, email and HP to yfc.heart@gmail.com. Deadline for registration is Tuesday, 29 July. If there are any enquiries, feel free to contact Tiantian (9194 1471) or Shao Yue (8203 6239). Join heART on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14482647187!

Volunteers are also needed to monitor the children to paint a portion of the jigsaw. Up to 10 CIP hours will be given to volunteers.
What to expect:
· Many CIP hours!
· Nice lunch provided for free!
· Horn your organizational and communicative skills!
· Learn art skills and have fun!
· Witness the great moment of a new world record!!

Interested students, please email your name, NRIC, class, email and HP to yfc.heart@gmail.com. Deadline for registration is Tuesday, 22 July. A confirmation letter will be sent to your by 29 July.

If there are any enquiries, feel free to contact Jerrold Chong (9147 6080) or Tiantian (9194 1471). Join heART on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14482647187!

-heART-

11:20 AM

“My heART, My Dream” Art Competition Information For Participants

Theme
My heART, My Dream

Size
A3 or larger

Prize
Award Prize ($ book vouchers)
Gold (100)
Silver (50)
Bronze (20)
Merit (10)
Drawings/designs might be sent to mass print on merchandises such as shopping bags and single-sheet files, which will be sold through street sales and participating partners by the organizer.

Category
There are two categories for this competition: Junior Category (for participants who are 12 or below on 29 July 2008) and Open Category (No age limit).

Submission
All participants are required fill the Submission Form (the soft copy of submission form can obtained by emailing yfc.heART@gmail.com or clicking this link http://www.savefile.com/files/1663765 and) submit it together with the artwork.

For submissions in digital form, please email the artwork with this submission form to yfc.heART@gmail.com

For hard copy submissions, please mail/pass them to the following:
Ms Lim Xiaohui
NUH Patientcare Charity Fund
5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Kent Ridge Wing, Level 5
Singapore 119074

Deadline for submission
July 29 2008

Terms and ConditionsParticipation in this competition means that the participant has read and agreed to the terms and conditions outlined below:
1. Applications will be considered objectively by “My heART, My Dream” judging panel and decisions for acceptance and selection will be made at their discretion.
2. Decisions are final and no appeals will be entertained.
3. Participation in this competition means the participant agrees that the organizer can use the drawing on merchandises/publicity. The organising committee reserves the right to make minor changes on the drawing/design without notification to the participants.
4. The organising committee reserves the right to change any part of this document without prior notification to the participants.

If there are any enquiries, please contact us at yfc.heART@gmail.com. Join heART on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14482647187!

-heART-

Labels: art competition

9:43 AM

Sunday, July 6, 2008

- heART -

hello!!XD
Our very own heART website cum blog is now here! Updates and information regarding our project's initiatives and activities (such as the "My heART, My DREAM" Art Competition) will be posted regularly here. Upcoming events for you all to look forward to includes a specially organized art workshop on 3rd August 2008 for our beneficiary kids and other primary school students.

Newcomers may familiarise yourselves regarding our project heART by reading our "about" page <<(on your right!! haha). Volunteers (for street sales and art workshops) are welcome and definitely greatly appreciated :) If you have any questions, you all may contact us or send your enquiries to yfc.heART@gmail.com. Be sure to watch out for interesting happenings about heART soon! :D Cya!!XD Cheers, -heART- Jerrold Chong Shao Yue Li Tiantian Lim Yu

12:12 AM

- heART -
heART - A Fund-Raising Project for the "BMT 4 Kids" Programme, under the NUH Patientcare Charity Fund.

We are a group of 4 students from Hwa Chong Institution, carry out this Citibank-YMCA Youth For Causes project, heART to raise funds for our beneficiary through art workshops/competitions and sales of unique shopping bags specially designed by our beneficiary kids.

AIMS
Our project seeks to raise awareness of the plight of children with terminal cancer and genetic blood diseases, and endeavour to raise funds for the BMT programme through sales of merchandise designed by the children under the programme. Through the workshops and competitions conducted, we also help enrich their lives and allow them to express their creative artistic potential.

HIGHLIGHTS
- Art workshop cum competition for the children from "BMT 4 Kids", primary schools and community centres. Children will learn to design and paint their own artworks onto recyclable shoppings bags. Winning bag designs will be selected and mass printed for sales nationwide.

-World Record breaking attempt to create largest "mosaic" of shopping bags to form one COOL design. Childrens' artwork done during the workshop will be pieced together to form a huge mosaic to be exhibited around Singapore at our sales booth and help raise awareness of these childrens' potential in society.