Spoke up

(Photo via Messengers.org)

Well, this just warmed the cockles of my heart. Octane Coffee, the favorite haunt of every 20-something graphic design student in the city, is soliciting donations of spoke cards designed by local artists for their Bikes to Rwanda benefit in April.

The spoke cards will be for sale at the fundraising event on Friday, April 12 at 8 PM with the intention to raise enough money to facilitate the construction of a bike maintenance shop for a coffee farm in Rwanda.

Even if you are not an avid biker looking to further personalize your dangerously cool lavender fixed-speed vintage bike, this will probably be a neat place to pick up tiny original works of art for your desk or elsewhere!

See below for all the deets if you’re interested in donating a spoke card of your design.

What we need: Spoke Cards! Any medium, any quantity, any format. Artists will donate cards that will be sold at the event, all proceeds from sales will go to Bikes To Rwanda. Ideal size= 6 x 6 inches and under, though this is not limiting or restrictive.

Deadline: Saturday, March 29th. Octane will laminate and price the spoke cards.

Spoke cards will be displayed on bike wheels, throughout the shop, from April 1st-12th.
If you would like to make multiple prints, we will have a merch table set up the night of the 12th, for extra cards and other event related items.

Bikes To Rwanda provides cargo bikes to co-operative coffee farmers in Rwanda. The goal is to improve quality of life in these communities through a bike workshop and maintenance program that provides transportation resources for basic needs and enhances production of quality coffee.

For more details, email Alyssa: atlbikestorwanda [at] gmail [dot] com

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