Holiday cards!

Pick up your pencils and styli and get cracking, we've got a deadline - 25th September 2007.

We're look for funny, sweet, cheerful, beautiful, strange, pretty, sacred and fabulous art for our first ever Christmas card set. There is so much talent in fandom, which is where Riverkids got its first public support, and we'd like to celebrate that diversity this holiday season!

We're working with a Singapore printing company that trains and employs a range of people in difficult circumstances, carrying on the Riverkids Shop motto of "every cent goes somewhere special!" so these cards are going to rock. Because of the way they're being printed, we'll be able to do short individualized runs, so you'll be able to pick art you love and add your own message and support Riverkids!

Submit artwork and straightaway get 10% off at our Riverkids Shop, good through year-end. If your work gets printed, you'll get a set of 50 cards just for you.

Get into the Christmas spirit, and start creating: Riverkids Holiday Art

Photos coming!

Several happy bits of news! We held a workshop for interested parents of Riverkids children to teach them how to fold roses and other flowers using locally available papers. The most beautiful were with this heavy soft mulberry-like paper, shown above. We've worked out several low-skill time-intensive handcrafts that will produce gorgeous Christmas things. Well, roses aren't very Christmassy, but they are lovely and light, so easy to post! and always good as a gift - ooh, I could offer them as add-ons to the silk scarves, so you send someone a scarf with three roses tucked inside.

Someone anonymously donated seven digital cameras to us! We've got one in Cambodia being shared by the staff, and now we have a net connection at the office, you can expect lots more photos. We're hoping to get the kids and teenagers taking photographs themselves and to start documenting their lives themselves.

And if you're in Singapore, swing by SMU near the Mt Faber Tunnel and see Riverkids at the Substation Tunnel Party! It's part of the SeptFest and we will be hanging out with punk music, arts and social causes and a lot of people! There will be evening yoga and short films and lots of high-falutin' art things! A group of RJC volunteers will be pitching in, so come by from 4pm to 11pm!