2008 Woodie Awards
Art show needs donations Friday
Benefits will go to poor children across world
Staff Report
Issue date: 2/6/08 Section: Entertainment
Benefits from an art show this Friday will help the organization Compassion International feed, clothe, shelter, vaccinate and educate around 800,000 of the poorest children in the world.
The Letters Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday at The Beetle, 827 16th St. Art submissions will be accepted from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. According to Jeff Cook, professor of philosophy at the University of Northern Colorado, the more art donations, the better.
Compassion International also cares for orphans with AIDS, children suffering from HIV and saves young girls from sex slavery.
According to Cook, most of the 800,000 children are cared for through individual sponsorships, a person or family will adopt an impoverished kid for around $1 a day.
Sometimes such sponsorships are dropped, leaving kids vulnerable.
"Compassion, however, never kicks a kid out of their system," Cook said. "But they need cash to bridge the gap between the time when a child is no longer funded, to their re-adoption by a new sponsor."
The Letter Art Show will support these kids who have been dropped, and would otherwise die.
"We are putting on the art show just one week from Valentine's Day intentionally," Cook said. "Last year Americans spent $14 billion on Valentine's Day gifts. That amount of money could have provided clean drinking water for the three billion people in our world without it."
All artwork is donated and will be auctioned in a silent bid throughout the evening. It will be catered with fine wines, cheeses and food, live music and child care.
The Letters Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday at The Beetle, 827 16th St. Art submissions will be accepted from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. According to Jeff Cook, professor of philosophy at the University of Northern Colorado, the more art donations, the better.
Compassion International also cares for orphans with AIDS, children suffering from HIV and saves young girls from sex slavery.
According to Cook, most of the 800,000 children are cared for through individual sponsorships, a person or family will adopt an impoverished kid for around $1 a day.
Sometimes such sponsorships are dropped, leaving kids vulnerable.
"Compassion, however, never kicks a kid out of their system," Cook said. "But they need cash to bridge the gap between the time when a child is no longer funded, to their re-adoption by a new sponsor."
The Letter Art Show will support these kids who have been dropped, and would otherwise die.
"We are putting on the art show just one week from Valentine's Day intentionally," Cook said. "Last year Americans spent $14 billion on Valentine's Day gifts. That amount of money could have provided clean drinking water for the three billion people in our world without it."
All artwork is donated and will be auctioned in a silent bid throughout the evening. It will be catered with fine wines, cheeses and food, live music and child care.
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