come one! come all!!!

FUTURE CAMBODIA FUND
an Awareness Night, July 27, '06
6pm until midnight



this is the event carly and I have been planning for months now and the ball is rolling at such a lovely speed! it's been quite an interesting ride planning this and setting it into motion. but once we did, it just started goin on its own, gaining its own momentum and we have just been going with it and what we're learning has just been such a trip!

the event has been the main priority, thoug we are still motivated to create FCF Canada. that's a bit of a longer process though, we are discovering. a lot of paperwork, a lot of legal mumbo jumbo and jargon. so we figured we should concentrate on:

1. raising awareness; connecting those who want to volunteer abroad with not only our NGO, but with safe, legit NGOs in Cambodia;

2. describing our major and minor projects to hopefuly spread our feelers out even further cuz you never know who that person is, who that person might know, and so on;

3.to give information on the country itself, we've created a time line - a brief history lesson - of the events leading up to this country's present state of poverty, remorse, and corruption... as well as its beautiful and rich culture (the sour as well as the sweet);

4. and to just meet folks and have the oppertunity to talk about what we have been so passionate about since having experienced so much in that wonderful country.

so... we have organized for Kiry - the President of the Cambodian Society here in Edmonton - to come out and answer anyquestions folks might have... we figured it would exactly be a Cambodia Awareness night if there were no Khmers present! there will be a photo auction; selected photos by a co-worker of mine, Maylene, who's father would spend 6 months of each year for 10 years or so in Cambodia. Maylene will have 5-7 blown up and framed, a brief description, costs she incured to do it, and if anyone would like to buy one, they can barderfor a fair and reasonable price... just like how it's done in many countries of the world. a photo stream of the pics we ourselves took while in Cambodia - both of the people and of the conditions - as well as some professional copywritten photos provided by FCF. a ticket raffle for 3 Ani DiFranco concert tickets for the following evening at the Windspear Center - for those who sign up to become members or make donations of any kind. and we have some live myoozik provided by a certain rock star (in my books) named Kathy O'Neill. she's toured on her own, with a group called The Revulvas (mainly in Vancouver area), as well as with Bif Naked across Canada a few years ago. so we're pretty excited about all this!! I'm also being interviewed on Edmonton AM the morning of the event! connections are a wonderful thing. you just gotta put it out there and see what happens!

other exciting news??

I have succeeded in arranging for a table set up in the lobby of the Windsear Center - next to the Righteous Babe merch tables - to promote Future Cambodia Fund!! yup! that was cool to do. I just called up RBR, told a woman name what we are all about, she seemed really gung ho about it and said she'd get back to me since she couldn't give the final say since the concert's being put on by Edmonton Folk Fest. I ended up calling the lovely folks at the folk fest and spoke with an awesome dude named Eugene who just happens to be native of a country in Malaysia - Borneo - and so he was super interested in FCF. the director of the folk fest called me the next day with the OK!! So, I was given some names and phone numbers about ensuring a table for when I get there and any other details specific to the Windspear requirements. turns out, I have to enter through the back entrance which just so happens to be the ARTIST'S entrance! haha I just dreamed this was going to happen this passed Sunday night... crazy. so who knows? but ya, I'm pretty stoked about that.

So I'll be keeping y'all posted on what happens after the events I've described above! wish me luck! show up and support! show your love!!! it would mean so much...

until then,

PEACE in the SOUTH EAST!