We are going to do it!
The Rebozo Way Project has decided to put together a calendar of traditional
babywearing from around the world, and to offer them for sale for
the first time at the Babywearing Conference next June! After that,
they'll be available on our website and maybe we will find other outlets
too. We are planning a 15-month calendar,from October 2008 through
2009. We have the exhibit space and volunteers (a few of us involved
in the project) to sell the calendars at the conference. We are making
it a RWP fundraiser, since we can sure use the money to help our good
cause!!
You can help with this incredible project by providing us with one
or more photos of traditional babywearers. Any photos submitted need
to have been taken by the person sending them, or we need to have
a written release from the photographer (whoever has the copyright
of the photo or would have it if it were copyrighted). In order to
be included in the calendar, we ask that you use our sample
release forms when you submit your photos.
People can submit photos under two different distinctions:
to allow the Rebozo Way Project rights to use the photo only for the
calendar,
or to allow the Rebozo Way Project to use the photo for educational
purposes at any time.
In either case, you, or the photographer, would retain the copyright
and could also use it in whatever way you wish. We prefer the second
distinction, as we are not able to take photos all over the world
of all of the babywearing possibilities without help from our friends,
and we want to have the means to promote traditional babywearing worldwide
in whatever ways may present themselves in the future too. But if
anyone is hesitant about sending in a photo, we wanted to offer the
choice of making it available to us just for the calendar project.
At this time, we only have release forms for us to use photographs
for the calendar as well as for other educational purposes. Please
let us know if you want us to come up with a form specific only for
the calendar. We will create such a release if there is a need.
We do not have a membership but we know that many babywearers have
been helped by our educational materials, images, programs, and website.
We invite you to feel a part of the Rebozo Way Project and submit
your photo.
We do need photos that are 300 dpi or greater, at the size of 8"
by 10", of a quality that they can be printed and look good,
although in some cases we may accept a blurred or 'bad' photo if the
subject is rare or absolutely enticing, or if the photo is old. Please
contact us if you have any doubts about a photo you wish to submit.
More exact requirements for submissions are below.
Please share your ideas with us as well as your photos!
We are also looking for anyone who has know-how about this kind of
printing or connections in the calendar industry that may give a financial
break to a non-profit organization that does good work in the world.
We have been looking into working with a green printer, who uses paper
that is 100% recycled, 50% post-consumer waste, and processed chlorine
free, as well as soy and vegetable based inks. So far, he prices look
as good as or better than other printers. We are still in the process
of investigating all that we need to do and pay for to make this calendar
happen, but we are on our way! We are still open to hearing from others
in the printing or calendar field.
thanks to everyone in advance for your help and photos!
We will continue to update
this page and will soon post the model releases and more requirements
for submitting photos. This page was created on January 15, 2008,
and we will put dates on all updates so you know you have the latest
information.
If you have digital photos,
you can begin to submit them now!! (mid January 2008). Photos must
be be submitted in high-resolution JPG format, in a 2+ MB file size.
Include a description of where the photo was taken (region and country
at a minimum), what is happening in your photo, the name of the particular
tribe or people featured, along with the first and last names of anyone
pictured (left to right), if known. Also include the name of the photographer.
We will list the name of the photographers in the photos chosen for
the calendar unless you tell us ahead of time that you prefer to be
anonymous.
Submit entries by email
to calendar@rebozoway.org
Submit CD/DVD entries by
mail to:
The Rebozo Way Project
Attention: Calendar Submissions
P.O. Box 22506
Santa Barbara, CA 93121
We will post the requirements
for scanned photos and slides soon. We'll provide a graph and/or other
information so that interested persons can scan materials at the correct
dpi (dots per inch) so that they result in photos at 300 dpi at the
size 8" by 10".
Thank you again for your
support and interest!!
