Cella Gallery is throwing a down-and-dirty art show of over 100 limited edition original Punk gig posters by artist Paul D’Elia. Paul  has been designing and screen printing show posters for DIY punk and hardcore bands for the past 6 years under the name “Screenin 4 A Change”, and this show will be a full retrospective of his work. Paul’s work can also be seen adorning many in the surf and skate culture having designed for Quiksilver, Quiksilver Womens, and Roxy jr’s clothing lines, and has been featured in the Quiksilver Foundation Artist series tee line.  Be sure to show up early and get a free screen printed poster!

On Sunday August 15th in Venice, CA SYRV will be hosting a Sunday Funday BBQ Fundraiser benefiting Surfrider. Hope to see you there!

Date: Sunday, August 15
Time: 11:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Big Red Sun 566 Rose Ave. Venice, CA
$15 adults $5 kids (lunch included)
Donation bar
Musical Guests: MK & the Gentlemen, Christopher Hawley, Samantha Stollenwerck, LaVie and Kind of Creatures.

EVERYBODY WINS!! Please support the Ocean Institute’s 6th Annual Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle. The Quiksilver Foundation benefits from every ticket sold.

Please join the Quiksilver Foundation in supporting our  friends at the non-profit Ocean Institute, Dana Point through entering the 2010 6th Annual Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle. We would love to have our supporters win the grand prize:  $1 million or a Laguna Beach Home.  There are over 400 prizes and many ways to win.

Every ticket you buy will help both the Quiksilver Foundation and the Ocean Institute—thank you for supporting us.

Over 150,000 kids experience the Ocean Institute’s “hands on” learning adventures every year. The Institute shares our mission of supporting environmental, educational, health and youth-related projects. Remember, the earlier you enter the more chances you have to win.  Enter by Wednesday, August 18 and qualify for extra prizes and drawings.

Buy more than one ticket you’ll qualify for a number of additional prizes and 6 extra drawings that provide you a chance to win 3 Prius Hybrids or $45,000 in additional cash prizes, dream-vacations, South Coast Plaza shopping sprees and more.

The Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle also includes a “Refer-a-Friend” program.   Buy a ticket and cause a friend to buy one too and you both have a chance to win $10,000.  When you win, your friend wins too!

Enter today and beat the August 18th deadline.  You’ll have a chance to win big while making a difference in so many lives.

To download the entry form and get complete details on prizes, pictures of the home, and more visit www.lagunabeachhomeraffle.com/quiksilver.

The Waves roof top party and fundraiser in NYC has been postponed because of rain.  It will now be held on August 12th…

WAVES was created to link passion with purpose; it aims to bridge the educational and economic gap between wealthy surfers and members of rural coastal communities, especially youth. In the past year, our staff and volunteers have helped over 200 residents in Lobitos, Peru, and the surrounding area. We hope to reach many more this year, and we need your help! We’re raising funds to purchase a passenger van, so we can provide safe, reliable transportation for the youth in our educational programs, and so that we can expand our reach to the neighboring towns.

Join us at 2 Cooper Square (E 4th & Bowery) in NYC for an evening of refreshing fun, as we enjoy the sunset on the rooftop pool, and raffle off some fantastic prizes from our generous sponsors, including original art, apparel, and a custom painted surfboard!

VIP attendees will be treated to a private director’s screening of Capture: A WAVES Documentary. VIP Tickets are $75, and include the screening, the pool party, three hours open bar, and one raffle ticket.

Regular admission ($35 in advance, $40 at the door) includes the pool party and two hours open bar.

VIP Screening and reception will begin at 7pm, with general admission/pool party starting at 8pm.

Tickets will be available for purchase online and are limited, so make sure to get yours early! Raffle tickets will be available at the party.

BUY TICKETS HERE!

For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact: poolparty@WAVESfordevelopment.org or visit their website at www.wavesfordevelopment.org.

THE 3RD ANNUAL QUIKSILVER FOUNDATION GOLF CLASSIC

At the prestigious Santa Ana Country Club

Monday, October 11, 2010

For more information and sign-ups contact:

Ryan Ashton
714.889.7132 / ryan.ashton@quiksilver.com

Kathie Armstrong
714.889.7198 / kathie.armstrong@quiksilver.com

Hope to see you on the course!

A recent survey by SurfAid’s Community Based Health Program staff found that nine out of 10 women in the Mentawai use the services of the local village Traditional Birthing Attendant (TBA) to assist with childbirth.

Ibu Isabella is one of the TBAs who joined in SurfAid’s ‘Healthy Pregnancy and Clean Birthing’ training which took place in April 2010 at the Quiksilver SurfAid Community Health Training Center.

One of the aims of the training session was to up-skill local TBAs in clean birthing techniques. At the completion of the training, the 23 participants were given a clean birthing kit to take home.

Not long after the training, Ibu Isabella had a chance to try out her new skills when she assisted another local woman, Ibu Rosmaulanti, in the delivery of her second child on April 24th. She was helped by SurfAid community facilitator Dian, who also attended the training session. The birth went well.

On retelling the story, Dian said: “I was actually really scared when I saw all the blood but put on a brave face and remained confident because I remembered the birthing steps we had learned during the training.”

Ibu Isabella and Dian have been paying regular visits to Ibu Rosmaulanti’s home to pass on neonatal messages such as the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and taking her new baby to Posyandu, the mother/child clinic, for monthly checkups and immunization.

The Katiet Center’s objectives are:

• To improve hygiene and sanitation practices in Katiet.
• To improve the nutritional status of Katiet children and pregnant women.
• To reduce the incidence of malaria in Katiet, and eventually create a “malaria free” zone.
• To decrease morbidity and mortality in children due to acute respiratory infections (ARI) and diarrhea in Katiet.
• To increase the capacity of the established Mentawai Health Department to provide service to the Katiet community.
• To implement an appropriate health education syllabus for schools.
• To establish and maintain a community training center that provides services which have been prioritized by the community.

The Center is designed to provide an opportunity to pioneer future community development projects. Before these projects, or individual project components, can then be rolled out to all SurfAid target villages they need to be tested and refined. Katiet village will serve as a testing ground, and in the future as a training center for village leaders from around the islands.

The Katiet Center, built with money donated by Quiksilver, is already the focal point for monthly health clinics, community training via the Community Based Health Program and for larger training programs which include health department management and staff. It is a key asset in the area, for the local communities as well as for SurfAid.

For more information visit SurfAid’s website here.

The trip includes round-trip airfare to Trujillo, Peru and 7 nights of accommodations at Chicama Surf Resort for 2 people. Surf the world’s longest lefts and relax in style for FREE! To enter please visit blog.quiksilver.com/?p=8465 and scroll down for the entry form. All entries must be recieved by July 31, 2010.

For further details and rules of entry click here. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. OPEN TO USA RESIDENTS ONLY.

Help support SurfAid improve the health, well being and self-reliance of people living in isolated communities connected to us through surfing – DONATE NOW

As you all already know, the explosion of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20 killed 11 people and led to the BP oil spill- the largest in U.S. history- that threatens coastal Louisiana, Gulf Coast fisheries, Gulf of Mexico ecosystems, and perhaps the East Coast, as the spill reaches the loop current.

The Quiksilver Foundation has been in touch with a number of different NGOs (non-governmental agencies) trying to understand and pinpoint the best way to lend a hand.

We have made a cash donation to a great group called The Gulf Restoration Network, www.healthygulf.org .  Their mission is to unite and empower people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region for future generations.  Currently their staff and volunteer base have been out in both boats and planes to survey the extent of the spill and record real-time data that is then being used to monitor areas that are immediately under threat.

Since this information has been documented and dispersed, other organization and volunteer groups have had better success of protecting and cleaning up delicate eco-systems at the shore along with the numerous species of plants and animals that inhabit these areas.

The information is also being used to challenge regulations concerning offshore drilling in hopes that our country continues moving forward with new alternative energies.

The Surfrider Foundation has also activated their chapters in the Gulf area to help get people involved.  If you live in the Gulf area but have never connected with a local Surfrider chapter, now is a great time to do it.  Encourage your friends who live in the affected regions to do the same.  Find the local chapters in the Gulf and Florida regions at www.surfrider.org/chapters.asp.

Best Regards,

The Quiksilver Foundation

The event features an extended stay at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center for the teams that won first and second place. It also offered something new – a one-day trip to the island for every team that submitted a complete project.

The competition this year drew a record number of entries, with 49 teams submitting complete projects. USC staff made good on the QuikSCience Challenge offer, organizing trips for almost 300 students and 50 teachers across the San Pedro Channel to the USC research center near the island community of Two Harbors.

“A lot more student teams registered this year, and a lot more turned in projects,” said Lynn Whitley, director of pre-college education for the USC College’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.

The trips began in the spring and will continue until mid-July.

The QuikSCience Challenge is managed by the USC Wrigley Institute in cooperation with Quiksilver Inc., an international producer and distributor of surfing apparel, and the Quiksilver Foundation. As part of their competition in the event, teams of middle school and high school students create projects and portfolios on an ocean science subject. They also put together an ocean science lesson plan that they teach to another class, and they carry out a community service project and propose a solution to an environmental challenge. (The high school teams also create a research project proposal.) The teams wrap up their projects with creative presentations to a panel of judges.

This year’s event had a number of firsts, one of them being a winning entry from outside Southern California.

A science teacher and a team of six students from Kamehameha High School in Honolulu won first place for high school teams. The Hawaiian team focused on the problem of invasive marine plants in coastal waters, particularly the problems caused in Hawaii by prolific seaweed known as “gorilla ogo.”

“The winning project was outstanding,” Whitley said. “The students wrote an excellent research proposal and organized a public service project that had a direct connection to the local community. The quality of the project was clear even though the students were 2,500 miles away. We’re excited to think this might be a sign that we can widen the geographic scope of the QuikSCience Challenge.”

The Kamehameha students will stay at the Wrigley Marine Science Center June 7-11 and then will visit the USC campus and spend one night in campus dorms before flying back to Hawaii.

This year’s science challenge also benefited from a new QuikSCience Mentors Club, a group of 13 graduate and undergraduate students at USC who provided assistance to the high school and middle school students to help them with their projects. The USC mentors provided assistance on science matters related to the student projects and sometimes traveled to participating schools to work directly with the student teams.

The challenge of carrying this year’s participants to Catalina Island has been met by the daily boat service the Wrigley Institute started last year aboard the vessel Zephyrus. The Zephyrus can carry 20 passengers, and that service was expanded this year with the lease of the vessel Miss Christi, which carries up to 50 passengers. The extra capacity helps the Wrigley Institute staff provide transportation for several student teams and their teachers on each trip.

The Miss Christi was leased to carry a growing number of USC students and faculty to and from the Wrigley Marine Science Center.

The high school winners for this year’s competition were Kamehameha High School (first place), and Santa Monica High School and Chadwick School in Palos Verdes (tied for second place). The middle school winners were Eastshore in Irvine (first place) and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Middle School in San Juan Capistrano (second place).