Help Decorate San Francisco's World Tree of Hope 2024 - Nov. 2 to Dec. 1

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Help decorate San Francisco's World Tree of Hope - the most unique holiday tree in the world.

The World Tree of Hope is a global holiday project promoting peace, love, and humanitarianism for our community of San Francisco and all people on earth.

The World Tree of Hope is the largest origami holiday tree in the world, standing over 23 feet tall and decorated with over 17,000 origami cranes and stars, each hand folded and inscribed with wishes for the future of the world. The Tree is created as a symbol of global unity and hope, to promote peace, love and humanitarian action. http://www.worldtreeofhope.org/

Decorating: There are a variety of tasks to prepare the origami and to start decorating the branches of the tree (folding, wiring, sorting, and ironing...). There are no special skills needed. You don't need to know how to fold origami to help!

* Grace Cathedral graciously hosts the World Tree of Hope, the Tree is created by Rainbow World Fund https://www.rainbowfund.org as a symbol of global unity and universal love. The Tree's purpose is purely humanitarian with the message that we are all one human family. It is open to everyone regardless of belief or non-belief.

There are lots of opportunities to help. All are welcome!

The decorating dates/times at Grace Cathedral (1100 California St.) are from Nov. 2 to Dec. 1:

• Saturday, Nov. 2 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Sunday, Nov. 3 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 7 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Friday, Nov. 8 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Sunday, Nov. 10 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 14 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Friday, Nov. 15 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 16 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Sunday, Nov. 17 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 21 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Friday, Nov. 22 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 23 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Sunday, Nov. 24 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Friday, Nov. 29 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Saturday, Nov. 30 from 10 AM to 6 PM
• Sunday, Dec. 1 from 12:30 PM to 6 PM

The tree lighting is Monday, December 9 from 6:30 PM to 8 PMWe will take down the tree: Saturday, January 4, 2025 from 10 am to 4 pm.

We can accommodate individuals and small groups of volunteers up to 25!

** T0 VOLUNTEER YOU MUST REGISTER: Sign up here by filling out this google form:

https://bit.ly/WorldTreeofHope-Volunteer-2024

OR email Jeff at: jcotter@rainbowfund.org

* Please state: the dates and times that you are available so we can best match times and create the volunteer schedule. Please include your telephone number. We request that volunteers sign up for a 3 or 4-hour shift. There are lots to do so you are welcome to stay longer and/or help on multiple days - just let us know.

We super appreciate volunteers who can sign up during the first several days to help get us off to a strong start!

Check out this time-lapse video of us decorating a previous years tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUqq1vrqJTQ

About the Tree: http://www.worldtreeofhope.org/