Shine on Postcards

“Shine On” is our annual postcard campaign, launched in 2017 to celebrate International Youth Day.

In 1999, the United Nations declared August 12th as International Youth Day to celebrate young people and raise awareness of the challenges they face.

In the week leading up to International Youth Day, we distribute 8,000 postcards created by four local student artists. Our goal is that each postcard will end up in the hands of a young person in the community with a meaningful message written on the back. Our postcards are ultimately created for young people, by young people. 

Community members can pick up postcards from 12 different distribution sites across the community beginning the week of August 5th, 2024!

WHAT IS SHINE ON?

Calling all local student artists

design A Shine on postcard!

HOW IT WORKS: We seek original artwork from local students (elementary - high school) that celebrates the theme “SHINE ON,” and encourages youth to shine! Four designs are chosen to be printed on 8,000 postcards that will be distributed to community members to write encouraging messages to youth in their lives and our community in celebration of International Youth Day.

Requirements

Artwork must be an original piece of work and be 5 inches x 7 inches in size.

Artwork must include the words “Shine On” and fit the theme of encouraging youth to shine.

Any medium may be used (i.e. photography, painting, hand-drawn, digital, collage), but the artwork must be submitted in a digital format (it can be scanned or photographed, if necessary, as long as the quality and resolution meet the requirements below).

THE FILE MUST BE:
Saved as a JPEG, at least 300 dpi, and no larger than 1 GB.

**Submissions are closed at this time.**

what can you do?

  • Write a thoughtful message on the back of a postcard for a young person in your life or in the community.

  • Share as many postcards and thoughtful messages as you can with young people to show them you care.

  • Celebrate by posting your SHINE ON postcards on Facebook & Instagram using #ShineOn, and share your special moment with us!

Thank you to all our talented designers: Zoë Clulow, Tim Cox, Aniket Ghatge, Taylor Henson, Ellie Jones, Yoonji Jung, Kyle Kingen, Shannon Malanoski, Jessica Meza, Emersyn Motsko, Lucy Nevins, Joelle Schaibley, Hallie Schwartzkopf, Maika Shibata, Lucia Signorino, Samuel Song, Brynn Stewart, Suzu Thompson, Grace Whaley, Hilary Yang, Natalie Walker, Leo Copeland, Chetna Raj Yadav, and Aizah Warsi.