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Saturday
December 7, 2024

10am–2pm

Garage HTX
Houston's Art District

Join us and participate in the

2024 Playdate Project with Laura & Friends

  • We like to describe it as a "playdate with purpose." It is a charitable ticketed event for families to come and experience family-friendly fun, hosted by Laura Izumikawa with her favorite local creatives and small businesses, all to benefit and support families in crisis through organizations who are already doing the work every day. Our past events were held in Los Angeles & Orange County, California to support Olive Crest. This year we are taking it out of state to Houston, Texas and will benefit and highlight The Riverside Project.

  • The Riverside Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is dedicated to strengthening foster families and their communities through training and collaboration. 

    In August 2020, they launched a city-wide strategic initiative to mobilize Houstonians to address the various social issues facing their neighborhoods. 

    They raise funds through the Response Network to provide tangible items and services that help families stabilize and to provide training for community responders.

    We want to be part of this cause. Our goal is to raise donations to help in their efforts to fulfill the needs of vulnerable families and their children throughout Houston.

    For more information about The Riverside Project, please visit Riversideproject.org

  • 100% of tickets sales and other fundraising at the event will be donated towards supporting The Riverside Project.

    We will be reserving space for The Riverside Project to come and share about their programs to our families who may be interested in learning more.

  • We are asking all participating vendors to donate their time, services and/or materials for this event.

    The Playdate Project is not designed to be a profitable marketplace but as a charitable event that will benefit and highlight The Riverside Project efforts so we ask that if anything is sold at your stations, 100% of the profits will all go towards Olive Crest. If you have more questions about this, please email playdateprojecthtx@gmail.com

  • We are expecting around 200-250 guests.

  • We ask that only up to two people come to staff your station.

Thank you for your interest in participating this year!

Please let us know how you'd like to join us below. We are still putting together the details of this event. We will contact you as we confirm details closer to the date. If you are shipping anything to us, we will contact you soon about the mailing address. If you have any questions, please email Joanne at playdateprojecthtx@gmail.com. Thank you!