Braintree Boy Honored with Foundation, Community Service

Joshua Kaye Foundation is hosting the fourth annual Family Fun Festival on June 2, 2019, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Family Fun Festival will take place at a new location this year, 2001 Washington St (the site of CATS Academy Boston) in Braintree. Admission is $3 per person or $15 per immediate family.

The Family Fun Festival will offer food, music, and fun for the whole family! Many favorite events will return for this year’s festival, including the Touch-a-Truck, carnival games, live music, local performers such as Big Joe the Storyteller, and the 1000 rubber dolphin drop - a fun spectacle with cash prizes including a $1000 grand prize!

There will also be new activities including a ninja warrior course from TA Fitness, a lion dance by Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy, a pie-eating contest, and an art show featuring the finalists from the first annual Joshua Kaye Foundation art contest.

Everyone attending the festival is invited to participate in the launch of the community build art project. Attendees will create a mosaic reproduction of an image of a sea turtle, from photographer Ben Hicks, using bottle caps. Joshua Kaye Foundation volunteers, with help from many schools, businesses, and community groups around the South Shore, have been collecting bottle caps for weeks. Instead of heading to landfills, these caps will now be upcycled into artwork. Any unused bottle caps will be recycled into park benches and donated locally. When finished, the mosaic art will go to the Boston Children’s Hospital, where it will bring smiles to families – and perhaps inspire future marine photographers, biologists, and other ocean protectors!

All funds raised by the Festival will go to support the mission of Joshua Kaye Foundation, which develops and enables thoughtful community-based projects focusing on inclusion, education, ecology and the arts, while empowering youth to make positive change in their community. Joshua Kaye Foundation welcomes participation from the public: to learn more about the foundation, volunteer at the Festival, suggest or join service projects, or join in the #ThisIsForJosh Acts of Kindness, please contact the Foundation or visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/JoshuaKayeFoundation.

About Joshua Kaye Foundation: Joshua Kaye Foundation was founded in 2014 to remember and celebrate Joshua’s kindness, creativity, and curiosity by developing and enabling thoughtful community-based projects focusing on inclusion, education, ecology, and the arts. Joshua Kaye was passionate about fairness, community, and animal welfare. JKF focuses its energy and emotion into doing good for the community in ways we believe Joshua would have.