While customers indulge in ice cream Monday at Sweet Dreams, Miracle Children will be creating art inspired by the frozen treat.
Dance Marathon at UF will be holding a fundraiser at the store’s new location, 1040 E. University Ave., from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. to raise money for the annual 26.2-hour event that benefits patients at Shands Hospital for Children.
Nicole Martinez, the event’s public relations overall chair, said Miracle Children are ambassadors “who have decided to share their stories with DM at UF and have been treated at [the hospital].”
Martinez, a 20-year-old advertising junior, said Michaels donated canvases for children to paint on with brushes and other supplies provided by Shands Arts in Medicine. The artwork will be auctioned off.
“Customers can come in and bid on the artwork on the walls,” Martinez said.
Bryn Reide, the hospitality overall chair, said bidding starts at $15.Twenty percent of proceeds from the ice cream sales will go toward this year’s Dance Marathon, Martinez said, and 100 percent of the proceeds from the artwork will also go to DM at UF.
Last year, Reide, a 22-year-old political science senior, attended a similar event and ended up playing with the family’s Miracle Child for two hours.
“I went to just get ice cream, but it reminded me why I’m doing DM,” she said.
