Tag: Kids and Art

Kids and Art Foundation

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Cancer sucks. Art heals.

This is the motto of the Kids and Art foundation. Started by a mom who lost her kid to cancer, they focus on improving the quality of life of patients and siblings by “healing cancer through the arts”. Check out their monthly art workshops at various studios. If your kid is in Lucille Packard (Stanford) or UCSF, they even have weekly art workshops at the hospital.

We came to know about this organization a year ago, and since then have attended every single monthly art workshop. Our kid LOVES them! Not only is it a safe space to take children in treatment, but it’s a happy space where kids can just be kids and have fun, without worrying about their treatments and scars. The joy on their faces says it all!

Tonight, they had an exhibition of artwork by kids, and a special event to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Several artists (incl. some child artists), volunteers and generous donors gathered to celebrate their milestone. The foundation has helped 1800 kids so far, and has ambitious plans to expand their reach to more hospitals / locations, including bringing art programs directly to the hospital room (e.g., for kids in the stem cell units, ICU).

Way to go Kids and Art foundation! Inspiring to see how the pain from one mom who lost her kid to cancer, was converted to giving hope and joy to several hundreds of children…

Go Gold – Raising Childhood Cancer Awareness

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Huge thanks to all kids and families for participating in the Go Gold party yesterday to raise Childhood Cancer Awareness this September! It was our first time organizing such an event, and we couldn’t have done it without your help.

The theme was kids helping kids in need. It was fun watching kids unleash their creativity via various DIY art projects, such as decorating canvas caps, pouches, card making and bracelets. There was a stand with homemade lemonade and yummy cupcakes.

Kids were thrilled upon raising $1100 !! We had promised to match the amount, and with an additional corporate gift match, the impact was multi-fold. The sales benefited Kids & Art foundation, a cancer charity that aims at healing pediatric cancer through the arts. It’s their 10th anniversary this year, and they’ve been helping kids in treatment by organizing weekly art workshops at children’s hospitals (UCSF Benioff, Stanford’s Lucile Packard), and monthly workshops at different artist studios in Bay area, including a recent one at Disney Pixar. More here.

Once again, thanks to all the wonderful people that joined and made yesterday’s party fun and meaningful !