No.046 Winter 2010

NEWSCharity Christmas Cards 2009 Are Here!
Again this year, the KEF charity cards are produced with cooperation and support of Mitsui
Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. “Smile-Heart Club”. We have two new cards this year,
one is designed with six pictures drawn by children from around the world, and the other is a
“Christmas tree in a forest” by Cristina Vubornova. In addition to these, a set of five Christmas
cards which was popular in the past is available again. We would like to recommend that you
send your holiday message to your family and friends with KEF children’s artwork.
Another way to send greetings to those you love is KEF postcards which can be used in any
season. “Cat had a Full Meal” and “Blue Dreams” are new options.

Christmas card B
Christmas card A

Size: 170mm×117mm (standard size)
Price: 200 yen/card (with envelope)Size: 148mm×100mm (standard size)
Price: 100 yen /card
Postcard H“Cat had a Full Meal”
Revival set of five Christmas cardsSize: 170mm×117mm(standard size)
Price: 600 yen/5-card set (with envelopes)

Postcard I“Blue Dreams”

Second Kids Earth Fund Charity T-Shirt!
Introducing the second round of kids-designed T-shirts from VIS. These T-shirts are very fashionable and have a great mixture of VIS style and kids’ personalities. Not only are these T-shirts
stylish, but profits from their sales will be donated to help kids worldwide through Kids EarthFund.
VIS, pour la frime, and gamineris, which are popular fashion brands among young women, havecollaborated with Kids Earth Fund in creating these T-shirts. Organic cotton is used to be environmentally friendly and to create a soft touch. The T-shirts come in three different designs, sochoose your favorite.
Ms. Funny Poo ¥2,800

Available in retail stores nationwide. http://www.visjp.com
Also available from Kids Earth Fund website. http://www.kidsearthfund.jp/ja/goods.php

Horse ¥3,800

Sheep ¥3,800

Kids Earth Fund x Kansai Kirin Beverage
Kansai Kirin Beverage has committed to support Kids Earth Fund, and next spring they will be
introducing vending machines painted with Kids Earth Fund pictures. Through joint support
from Kansai Kirin Beverage and shop keepers who have the machines, a portion of beveragesales will be donated to Kids Earth Fund every month. We hope to see many of these colorfuland dream-filled vending machines on streets and in buildings and offices nationwide.

Kids Earth Fund Halloween Ecobags for a Limited TimeLet us introduce the KEF ecobags which were offered for sale around the site of “13th KAWASAKI Halloween 2009” from October 24th to November 1st. They were sold only during thatfestival and are no longer available. The very bright orange of the pumpkins made the bags
dynamic.
http://www.lacittadella.co.jp/halloween/market.html#experience

Pictures drawn by children from all over the world are
now on shopping bags!
KEF pictures are have been used to design some special shopping bags, and they are now
available from various shops. The lovely bags with designs inspired by Christmas and winterwill make your heart warm in this cold weather, and you can share children’s purity and energy
by carrying them. Please step into your nearest shop and get one for yourself!

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Special
Topic

KIDS EARTH FUND Exhibitionat Princeton Day School

KIDS EARTH FUNDCHARITY CONCERT2009 at Hills Side Terrace,Daikan-yama

Tamagawa Takashimaya Store were alldisplayed. The Grand Patio, on the 1st floorof the main building where many people
pass by, was beautifully decorated withChristmas lights and with children’s paintings. The glittering illuminations and theadorable artworks of children created a funand enjoyable atmosphere.

KIDS EARTH
HOME Project
キッズ・アース・ホームプロジェクト

Event information<Event period> November 11th 2009(Wed)~ December 25th 2009 (Fri)<Sale of Goods> December 20th 2009(Sun) 11:00~17:00<Location> Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C
located in the main building on the 1stfloor, Grand Patio

On December 3rd, 2009, the opening
reception of Kids Earth Fund Exhibition,
took place at the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery
on the Princeton Day School Campus in NJ,
the United States.

at the venue. Through this wonderful event,more people got to know about Kids EarthFund. The children who participated in art
workshops seemed to enjoy painting
pictures and, at the same time, learned thatchildren like themselves could help children
overseas who are suffering from war, poverty and all other difficult circumstances.
The event was quite meaningful andsuccessful.

The public was invited to see a number oforiginal pieces of artwork created bychildren around the world and to purchase
KEF charity goods such as note cards,
giclée prints, books, t-shirts and handpainted reusable bags during a Holiday
Sale on the reception day.

The KEF exhibition, which started on
December 1st, 2009, remains open until
January 15th, 2010 and is hosted by Princeton Day School.

On October 10th, the Kids Earth Fund
hosted a solo charity concert of Jazz
pianist Hajime Yoshizawa, at the Hillside
Terrace in Daikan-yama, Tokyo.
At the same time, children’s paintings wereexhibited and many people were able tosee the artworks of children around theworld. Behind the audience there were 5
pieces of artworks by the children from theart workshop held at the Itami AEON Mall.
They were all hung together in a row addinga bright and cheerful ambience to the concert hall.
Once again, this was a good opportunity toallow all the people in attendance to viewand enjoy children’s paintings in the country and overseas. On the day, along with thevolunteer workers, the employees of theTokyo Bay Maihama Hotel as well as theemployees of the Prudential Life Insurance
Company volunteered to help out in various
areas from setting up the floor to importing
paintings and sales of goods.
For the audience who saw Hajime
Yoshizawa’s performance for the first time,
the familiar melodies from the televisioncommercials were played such as the song
“AI-NO-TABI” used in the latest Nikon D80
camera commercial starring a popular
Japanese artist, Takuya Kimura and thesong “HOME” used in the Morinaga Café
Latte commercial starring an American
actress, Scarlett Johansson. The event wascomprised of live music and art on display,for the audiences to enjoy with both theireyes and their ears.

Winter 2009:
Tamagawa Takashimaya“White Angel Project”

The founder of Kids Earth Fund, Harumi
Torii, also visited there for three days fromDecember 9th to 11th to make presentations on Kids Earth Fund, its activities andits motto “Kids Helping Kids” as well as tohold art workshops with the students ofPrinceton Day School and the local children

Wishing a joyful and peaceful Christmas forthe children around the world, the charity
event called the “White Angel Project” hasbeen running since 2002 at the Tamagawa
Takashimaya S・C. And this year, it hascelebrated its 7th year.
The children’s paintings from the art workshop held at the pediatric ward and thetapestry painted by the kindergarten
children in Setagaya for the celebration of
the 40th anniversary of foundation of theKids Earth Fund x Citi Group family@ Kids Earth Gallery
On November 7th 2009, the art workshop
with Citi Group family was held at Kids
Earth Gallery in Tokyo, Ebisu. There weretwo themes for the workshop; “Enjoy drawing freely” and “Christmas”. Children wereseparated into two groups and each teamdrew each theme freely on a big canvas.
In the group of “Christmas”, there was achild who drew in a unique way by stroking
the brush up and down and splashing
paint. Some children who joined as parentand-child, brothers or friends became
nervous at first and drew silently, but in the
middle smiles got wider and there was achild who even drew while humming. The
art workshop was very successful in thatboth children and adults enjoyed it somuch.

Decorating Christmas Paintings atchildren’s ward, Toho University
At the art workshop this time, children
worked on “Christmas decorations”. The
children who participated in the workshop
painted “Christmas” of their own
imagination, using paint of different colors
and different kinds of brushes on the entire
drawing paper. On the drawing paper, they
decorated it with glass tiles pasted byadhesive bond and double-stick tape, whitespangles and cotton balls. In order toprevent group infection of influenza, thehospital made a tough decision to only
allow children to each paint in a privateroom but not in the playroom. However,even in the private rooms, the children
freely expressed Christmas of their own.
When one was asked where they will hang
the art that they have completed, there was
the reply “On the wall!! Santa can see itbetter!” After the workshop, one of thechildren made a Christmas tree all byhimself by cutting and pasting drawing
paper and origami paper.

Workshop at Pediatric Ward ofTokyo Medical and Dental University
Hospital

FIAT×KIDS EARTH FUND
5×HAPPY FIAT CAFFE
Charity Silent Auction
Dec. 3rd (Thu)-Dec.26th (Sat)

10 pictures painted by children all aroundthe world and donated to Kids Earth Fund
were exhibited in FIAT Cafe. Charity goods
were sold, and a collection box was also
placed in a cafe.
In addition, pictures painted by children
who participated in Asunaro Drawing Class
were sold during the event, and the wholesales profit was donated to KEF.
Beautiful Christmas lighting and decoration, combined with children's Christmas
paintings, created warm and nice atmospher in the cafe.

KIDS EARTH
CAR Project

キッズ・アース・カープロジェクト

Art Workshop at KANAGAWA
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
On October 20th, 23rd and 26th, an art
workshop was held at Kanagawa Children’sMedical Center. At this art workshop, allchildren painted “Christmas” at the threehospital wards respectively on each of thethree days. It was very impressive that thechildren, with animation and lots of joy,used paints of many colors and painted
Santa Claus, snow, bells, Christmas trees,
ribbons, deer, etc. however they imagined
the objects. There was a child painting
diligently on the bed that was moved fromthe patient’s room to the day room andanother child painting with the greatest
concentration as long as the time allowed
before receiving dialysis.

In late December, six children participatedin a workshop at Tokyo Medical and DentalUniversity. Each child completed about
three pictures, and soon there was so muchart that there was no space to let them dry.
It was impressive to see the warm smiles offamilies as family members watched theirchildren or grand-children drawing freely
and happily. Also, other children who had
to participate in a separate room filled theirpaper at a free and easy pace. There werechildren who made pictures with stamps oftheir hands dipped in paint. We received
many smiles and a lot of energy during thisworkshop which produced a lot colorful
artwork.