The Art fur Kids activity is aimed at connecting children and animals through creativity and the arts. The children will have a unique opportunity to paint with volunteer artists throughout the program.
Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. will also launch their S.M.A.R.T. Hood mobile application connecting local and global animal communities. Members will have the ability to access important information such as lost/found pets, local pets services, shared community tasks, S.M.A.R.T. Kids interactive module, SOS distress messaging, and more!
The Pawzitive Program helps and provide awareness to children through creative, fun, informative activities while providing history, facts and details about our incredible animal friends.
Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. is pleased to collaborate with Elements Preschool, a nature based school in the Lower East Side, New York City. Both are founded on creating meaningful engagements with the environment, one another and all living creatures with sensitivity, compassion and curiosity.
Event activities will include:
- kids making animal drawings with volunteer artists
- special guest appearance and honor ceremony
- animals for adoption
- street fair activities and games
- animal related promotional merchandise
- children participants sharing person animal stories and experiences
- special guest, author Cricket Casey, will be on hand to sign books as well as offer for raffle prizes
Other activities available for children during the day will be face painting, music, food, raffle and more!
Photo Gallery
Charity Mission of the Event
Raising Funds for our partner
Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. Animal Rescue Facility in Greece
and our U.S. based activities
One of the important aims of the NYC Event is to help raise money for our Campaign to help our partners Greece cat sanctuary located in the Attika region.
Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. sanctuary has been operating in Greece since 2011. The sanctuary is situated in the Attika region and currently hosts more than 40 rescued cats. The cats were rescued from the streets, sometimes in horrible condition as a result of injury or abuse.
Within its Adoption Program, Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. organization facilitates adoptions of the rescued cats locally and to other European countries. In 2017 alone, about 17 rescued cats found their new forever home through adoption program. Angelico, a 3-legged cat from Beirut, found his forever home in NYC.
Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. covers costs of all its activities, including operating the sanctuary in Greece, mainly from internal funds and must rely on kind donations to keep going on its mission. Yearly budget of the SMART sanctuary in Greece is 34,200.00 EUR and yearly budget of SMART Sterilization Program, which the organization runs in Athens, 5,000.00 EUR. Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. therefore always welcome donations from companies or individuals.
Donations will help to finance following operations and needs of the rescue facility in Greece:
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rent/utilitie
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care givers
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cat food
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cat litter and litter boxes
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cleaning items and other supplies
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beds for cats, cat trees, towers and condos, cat toys
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medicine, sterilization, doctors bills for check ups/surgeries and other treatments
Further, the donations raised within the NYC event will help to finance also Let’s be S.M.A.R.T. operation in the U.S. and specifically the following projects:
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Operating and maintenance costs of S.M.A.R.T. Hood mobile application
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Pawzitive and other educational activities and events
Art fur Kids Painting with Famed Artists
Hubert Kretzschmar
Hubert, a NYC based artist from Germany, is a pioneer of melding fine and applied digital art. His work includes iconic album covers for the Rolling Stones (incl. “Some Girls“), Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk (Electric Café), and other notable artists. His work has been shown in galleries and museums (New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Zürich, Budapest, Tokyo, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe) as well as mostly recently in Rolling Stone’s multi-city touring exhibit “Exhibitionism”.
Hubert is featured artist and will work with kids to create a collage of animals as a group art piece.
www.hubertart.net/projects
About Special Guests
Cricket Casey
Cricket Casey has written two children’s musical story books. The Portal in the Park, where “little monsters” in the park capture a little boy as he falls off the bridge into a portal. His adventure brings him through an emotional awakening, learning how to deal with his anger, sibling rivalry and bullying. Enjoy another one of Cricket’s musical stories The Muklemins: Camping in as the mother is fed up with her kids electronic devices and shuts down all the power so the family can be creative as they go camping in the living room.
Click here to learn more about The Portal in the Park.
