Wet Paint in the Community

CRANESTORM: Wishes in Flight
Origami with a Purpose / Wet Paint Crane Folding: February 5-11, 2011

5,482 Cranes! Thanks to all who participated!

From February 5th thru the end of March, the customers and staff of Wet Paint folded 5,482 origami cranes for the Brian Injury Association of Minnesota's art project, CRANESTORM: Wishes in Flight. (Note our initial humble goal below of 1,000 cranes!) Details about the project are below the videos. These two videos at Wet Paint were produced by Brain Injury Association of Minnesota staff Lee George & Anna Karena. They did a wonderful job with them. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Special thanks is extended to our origami vendor & friends at Aitoh Company, San Francisco, who recently contributed 9,000 sheets of origami paper to CRANESTORM: Wishes in Flight!

An ancient Japanese legend promises anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes to be granted a wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. Brain Injury of Minnesota’s mission is to enhance the quality of life & bring promise of a better tomorrow for all people affected by brain injury. They’ve launched a year- long awareness project through art called CRANESTORM–WISHES IN FLIGHT. It’s goal is to accumulate 100,000 folded origami cranes, one for every Minnesotan with a brain injury. Throughout the year these cranes will become part of an ongoing art installation. The plan is to raise awareness of brain injury & educate communities about brain injury prevention. The collection of cranes will be presented at a Create Ability Event, where they will form a Cranestorm of wishes in flight! Wet Paint is known for its origami paper selection & our origami demos are among our most popular events. We thought Cranestorm was not only an interesting & worthwhile project, but an appropriate way for us to contribute to our community. So, we have a lot of cranes to make. Wet Paint will host a weeklong crane folding event just before Valentine’s Day, beginning February 5. We want you to participate with us in our goal for the week of contributing 1,000 (or more) folded cranes! Here’s how: Kicking off the week will be our annual Valentine origami demo with origamist Kathleen Sheridan on Saturday, February 5th, 11-2pm. This year Kathleen will be teaching you how to make heart shaped boxes-- & also cranes, of course! While you are here, convey your good wishes for those with brain injury by folding some paper cranes that we’ll collect & contribute to Cranestorm. ALL ORIGAMI WILL BE 15% OFF so you can fold cranes at home with friends & family & bring them back to Wet Paint to include in our donation. Capping off the week will be a Crane Fold-A-Thon Soiree on Friday, February 11th from 5:30-7:30 pm at Wet Paint. Cranestorm’s Anna Karena will be on hand to help fold origami cranes & to talk informally about the project. PLUS! Fold Cranes at home & bring them to Wet Paint to fill our front window-- we'll be collecting cranes through the END OF MARCH! HOW TO FOLD A CRANE You can learn how to fold a crane by visiting this website: http://www.origami.org.uk/origamicrane Visit www.braininjurymn.org/volunteer/cranestorm.php for more information.

 

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