826michigan needs your help: Vote for them TODAY (5/18) to win a car in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good effort. They transport volunteers from Ann Arbor to off-site programs in Ypsilanti and other nearby towns in need of tutoring.
Make a difference in the Mitten and vote!
We are design fans, music fans, AND t-shirt fans - so we’re thrilled to be a part of this contest! Head over to Veer to submit your design inspired by this quote from Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy’s favorite books, Don Quixote:
“I can no more remember one syllable of it than the shapes of last year’s clouds.”
You could win a bevy of prizes, including tickets to a show and a Wilco album, as well as have your work immortalized on a shirt. Best of all, proceeds will support the 826 chapters in New York and Chicago! Can’t wait to see what you guys come up with, so enter today*!
* - Today is especially appropriate, as it’s the anniversary of Cervantes’ (and Shakespeare’s) death.
Over on the Twitter, @hodgman and @mshowalter are chronicling their Scrabble for Cheaters experience with the likes of Peter Dinklage and Sarah Vowell. The event is a fundraiser for 826NYC - don’t worry, cheating lessons do not seep into tutoring.
826 centers hold fun events like this all the time. Best way to find out about them? Get involved as a volunteer! Find out how: http://www.826national.org/about/92/volunteers
Bob Odenkirk hosting the 826LA charity auction at Amoeba Records! Gonna try and score something.
How’d you do?
Just what are these things?
Our friends at WNYC’s Studio 360 and Significant Objects want you to tell them in this Listener Challenge.
Last week our students wrote “Imaginary Tales from the Pearl Jam 20 Tour.” Yesterday, they got to read them to Jeff Ament. What a blast! :) (Thanks again for stopping by, Jeff!)
(source: 826 Seattle)
Speaking of great news from our friends in the Northwest …
826 National and Sappi Fine Paper present: The Standard #5!
Get an inside look at the 826-inspired design journal by Sappi. Then, if you’ll be in Seattle on April 3, make sure to head to the Sappi event! You’ll hear an engaging conversation between noted designer Kit Hinrichs and 826 Seattle’s very own Justin Allan.
Speaking of Dave Eggers, if for whatever reason you haven’t heard 826, get on board with 826. The original 826 Valencia in San Francisco, founded by Eggers, has been followed by others throughout the U.S. These are volunteer-run non-profit tutoring and writing centers of amazingness. Each location produces it’s own student created publications, visits dozens of local schools with writing tutors, and hosts nightly tutoring for local students.
826CHI (click through) has been an amazing partner to work with. They’ve come in for creative writing workshops, college statement workshops, and even individual meetings with some young writers. They’re also a great community for young/professional writers who are looking to give back, or at least to make the most of their time.
If you’ve got an 826 in your city and you haven’t been there, be there.
Well, shucks. Thanks for the nice words.
