These kits are designed to assist children in a small way during their healing process. For the wig recipients, hair loss is just the beginning of the side effects they deal with. Since 2000, Children with Hair Loss has donated more than 5,000 hair replacement and care kits to children across the United States. Children and young adults receive wigs at no cost to themselves. The organization makes wigs for children and young adults who have lost hair because of cancer treatments, alopecia, trichotillomania, burns and any other causes. ![]() Hair donations like Dixon’s go to a nonprofit organization based in Missouri called Children with Hair Loss. While the casual onlooker might not have considered her hair to be significantly long, she could still donate the minimum eight inches for this semester’s event. (Melissa Collado)ĭixon had donated her hair one other time and has been growing it out since in the hopes of donating it once again. Her hair donation will be placed in a plastic bag, then sent with other hair donations to the organization Children with Hair Loss. BYU student Hannah Dixon holds up her hair that has been carefully separated into sections, rubber banded and cut. “I’m not super attached to my hair, so I’m happy to let someone else use it and really appreciate it,” sociology senior Hannah Dixon said. Students who volunteered to donate their hair were eligible for a free haircut from the stylists at Studio 1030 in the Wilkinson Student Center. While the event runs for only a couple of weeks, students are still encouraged to take in hair donations to the Y-Serve Office anytime during the year. Students must donate at least eight inches of hair. Share Your Hair is a semi-annual event, taking place once every fall and winter semester. (Melissa Collado)īYU students have the opportunity to donate their hair through Y-Serve’s “Share Your Hair” event and find it is an easy way to serve others. Y-Serve hosts the event every winter and fall semester and partners with Studio 1030 to give free haircuts to students who donate their hair. Now you can watch it here.A hairdresser cuts eight inches of hair off BYU student Hannah Dixon on the last day of the Share Your Hair event. One accidentally scoops a cute baby kraken out of the sea, and the pirates’ fear of the legendary sea monster spins out of control. “Stowaway,” you might recall from the earlier newsletter, is the story of two pirates. Not saying we didn’t fight and it was all perfect, but it was just such a blessing to be able to work together every day with somebody I loved,” Domino said in a BYU video. “It was such a joy to work together with him. Writer and director Ethan Briscoe is married to lead lighting artist Chelsea Domino. “Stowaway” also had a love story in the center of it. “Stowaway” also won, marking the 19th time a BYU team has won student Emmy for an animated short film. It’s one of those things that I’ll never forget and really cherish the rest of my life.” Update on ‘Stowaway’Ī few weeks ago I shared the story of “Stowaway,” the BYU student film nominated for a College Television Award in the animation category. That’s what we connect with as human beings. Honestly, it made me realize that telling stories is what matters. ![]() “My mom secretly took a video of him watching it live and when we won, he just started to cry. ![]() “My dad was actually watching the award show that night,” Richardson said. Richardson’s teammates were co-director Asher Huskinson, producer Rebekah Baker and writer Campbell George. They celebrated together when they were announced as the winners of what colloquially is known as a student Emmy. ![]() The four of them reunited two weeks ago in Richardson’s New York apartment to watch the 41st College Television Awards live online. The younger Richardson pitched the story to other students and they shot a two-minute Mustang commercial for their BYU advertising program portfolios - smack dab in the middle of the pandemic. It can propel us farther than just a place we need to go but to somewhere we want to be in life.” “As I sat at the dinner table hearing this story I thought, that’s actually really intriguing that a car can get us farther than just a physical destination but to a life destination. He didn’t have very much money at the time, so he sold his prized possession for my mom’s wedding ring. Eventually at BYU he met my mom and fell in love. His core memories growing up throughout high school and early college was with this car. He saved all his money, got a good deal on one and rebuilt it by hand. “I was sitting at Sunday dinner with my dad and he told me the story of growing up with the dream of owning a green ’67 Fastback Mustang.
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