06/26/2020
Hi everyone!
I hope you and your family are safe and doing well!
I am happy to announce that as a Black-affirming organization, we are included in the ABC Fund, under the Student Priorities List, for the 24-Hour Fundraising Challenge. If you can, please share and donate at least a dollar (literally a dollar) to this initiative because the funds with the highest number of donors get a bonus.
https://challenge.rice.edu/campaigns/all-black-clubs-fund
If you want to give funds directly to Rice Creative Society, use the "Give Now" button at the top of the page, select Other for Category, and enter the code G84321 with Rice Creative Society. For any additional questions, please contact Sara Safer at [email protected] or at 713-348-5848. I also included our fundraising blurb below.
Thanks,
Taylor Crain
Founder and President of RCS
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Founded in 2019, Rice Creative Society (RCS) is an organization for students interested in developing skills and pursuing creative careers in the areas of media, art, tech and communications. With a focus on collaboration, critique, networking, and exposure, the purpose of the organization is to organically and intentionally foster an inclusive and interdisciplinary community that engages in a larger social and creative discourse, instills a sense of social responsibility, promotes a deeper appreciation for diversity, and provides a means of professional creative development.
As Rice Creative Society was founded by a Black woman and is highly Black-affirming, it is an organization that is also focused on increasing accessibility for underrepresented groups to creative careers as well as to highlight diverse voices in the creative industry. The organization’s vision is to contribute to changing the narrative that creativity exists solely in a White, starving artist, and socially disconnected vacuum. RCS hopes to more adequately address the professional development needs of creative students at Rice, especially creative students of color, as well as to be an example of how creative organizations should be socially engaged, inclusive, and able to combine STEM with the Humanities.
In our inaugural year, Rice Creative Society hosted a personal branding workshop with Lovett alum Rahul Kothari and invited the creators of the short documentary “Black Girl Church” - Audrey Williams, Marissa Pina, Joe Schaefer, and cast member and former editor of Nylon Mag and Refinery29, Sesali Bowen - to a reception, panel, and film screening that sold-out twice at the Moody Center for the Arts in collaboration with CERCL, the Moody Center for the Arts, and ACE@Rice. The documentary "Black Girl Church" started off as a love letter to Black girls and turned into an intimate portrayal of Black beauty, the dynamics of the Black beauty industry, and some of the realities of Black women.The “Black Girl Church” event garnered interest from the Houston public and sparked interest in future events open to the Houston public.
Funds for our organization would be used to support our goals of hosting a guest speaker series; professional development workshops; internal member contests and social events; a digital publication; and the potential creation of a scholarship to cover the expenses of students applying to conferences and online creative professional-development courses/programs.
The 24-Hour Challenge is Rice University’s annual day of giving! On June 25, 2020, we ask you to join the worldwide community of Owls for a day of hope and impact. Gifts can be directed to a school, residential college, research initiative, student club or any area on campus that means the most to...
