Model to provide calendars for Světluška and postcards for Konto BARIÉRY

OPAVA – Preprint preparation and production of the 2010 wall calendar is currently taking place in Model Obaly a.s. plant in Opava . This year, Model is going to print a total of 64,400 separate pages with illustrations by Naděžda Kotrčová, which Testa Print s.r.o., a company in Malé Hoštice, will then turn into 4,600 calendars. Model will present roughly 1,400 pieces to the Czech Radio Endowment Fund for its Světluška project.

The money raised by selling these calendars will be used by the fund to help blind and sight-impaired children and adults. The wall calendars will be presented to the customers and staff of Model company as well.

This is the second year a wall calendar is being prepared for the Světluška project. For the 2009 calendar, illustrations by Jiří Trnka were used with permission from his heirs. In the previous years Model printed wall calendars free of charge for the Charter 77 Foundation`s project Konto BARIÉRY. From 2002 to 2008, the foundation raised more than 850,000 Czech crowns by selling these limited edition wall calendars. All of the calendars presented Czech fine art. The featured artists were Adolf Born in 2004, Tomáš Bím in 2005, Vlastimil Zábranský in 2006, Jiří Kolář in 2007 and Ladislav Kuklík in 2008.

Model Obaly a.s. continues to support Konto Bariéry this year by providing postcards for Christmas and other ones for the rest of the year free of charge. During September Model`s plant in Opava will produce 60,000 Christmas postcards with a picture of the Magi by B. I. Wagner which will then be sold by another partner of the project - the Czech Post.