I got an e-mail from Ami Simms recently with the following information about the Alzheimer Quilts exhibit and sale at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I would like to share it with any of you who might be able to make it to the show.
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
is offering more than 2,100 Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts for sale at
International Quilt Festival in Houston. Please head over to the front of the Exhibit Hall, Row S and buy a few
quilts (Oct 31-Nov 4). All profits fund Alzheimer's
research.
See the quilts: http://www.alzquilts.org/houston2012.html
If you would like to help sell
quilts, rope people into the booth (it is Texas after all) or generally lend a
hand, they need you. Sign up for a 2-3 hour time slots (and get free admission
on the days you volunteer) or join their Text Brigade and help "as needed."
Learn more and sign up here:
Win this quilt! The AAQI is launching a newsletter to keep
supporters informed. One lucky subscriber will win a beautiful little quilt made
by Martha Wolfersberger. Sign up here for a chance to win and keep tabs of what
the AAQI is up to. The newsletter is free. http://www.alzquilts.org/newsletter.html
The
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative® (www.AlzQuilts.org ) is a national,
grassroots charity whose mission is to raise awareness and fund research. The
AAQI auctions and sells donated quilts, and sponsors a nationally touring
exhibit of quilts about Alzheimer's. The AAQI has raised more than $773,000 since January 2006.
Ami Simms of Flint, Michigan is the founder and executive director of the AAQI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operated entirely by volunteers. She is a quilter. Her mother had Alzheimer's.
Ami Simms of Flint, Michigan is the founder and executive director of the AAQI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operated entirely by volunteers. She is a quilter. Her mother had Alzheimer's.
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