POST IN SPACE
We may call it Christmas.
Over at the Martian Embassy, it’s the Earthling Increased Purchasing Period.
And really, that’s probably more accurate.
For this EIPP, the Embassy (also the home of the not-for-profit writing centre for children, The Sydney Story Factory) is celebrating with an exhibition of specially designed ‘postcards from space’ by a cohort of talented local designers. The postcards are used as part of a pen-pal program between Sydney kids and, well, space.
Matt Roden, Deputy Story-teller at the Factory, tells us more.
“This December we were looking to try and raise awareness for the Embassy, hopefully to sell a few alien-themed stocking stuffers … so we can keep running our free workshops. We thought one way to raise awareness would be to hold an art show.
To kill two space pterodactyls with one meteor, we invited our favourite artists and designers to design a Martian postcard. We’ll display the finished designs in the store in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and we’ll use the designs when the “Martians” write back to the students. This extremely cool variety of postcard designs will be a great way to encourage the kids to keep writing.
Some of the artists who answered the call included James Gulliver Hancock, Eirian Chapman, Andrea Smith, Tai Snaith, Daniel Dittmar, Jin Hien Lau, Kitiya Palaskas, Ella Leach, Tanya Cooper and a few more. We are intergalactically grateful they took the time to send through a design. We’ll put in a good word for them when the Martian invasion happens!”
Open for a very limited time, Post in Space is a good excuse to pop into the store to stock up on your tins of Gravity, Human Disguises, Black Holes or perhaps the Intergalactic Traveller’s Guide to Saturn.
It’s all the, “creative nonsense” that Roden says wows the kids before they get into the serious business of writing. And nonsense is pretty perfect for the silly season, Martians and Earthlings can no doubt agree.
Dec 15 & Dec 22, Martian Embassy, 176 Redfern St, Redfern, sydneystoryfactory.org.au
