 Elephant Family announces education partner for Elephant Parade London 2010
When and Where: Stand F21 11.30am on Friday 2nd October
Mark Shand, founder of Elephant Family, and elephant conservationist Rula Lenska were joined by Joanna Lumley's ghurka-inspired giant frog and pre-eminent artist Patrick Hughes to launch Wild in Art’s education programme for Elephant Parade London 2010.
Elephant Parade is set to be the capital's biggest outdoor art event on record and will see 200 brightly painted fibreglass elephants descend on London in May, June and July next year. Each elephant will be decorated by an artist, designer or celebrity, in a similar way to the giant frog, and sponsored by a business or individual, raising in excess of £1million for conservation projects across Asia. The project will unite conservation charities, businesses and individuals alike and, by joining forces in this way, Elephant Parade London will make a significant difference to the future of the highly endangered Asian elephant.
Wild in Art, a leading creator of mass participation public art events and related education activities, including The Prince's Rainforest Project's giant frogs, has created a cross curricular education pack that uses the power of creativity to inspire children and encourage learning, debate and understanding in areas of conservation and citizenship.
Charlie Langhorne, a director of Wild in Art, said: "Each participating school will be supplied with a 75cm blank 3-D elephant canvas. In our experience, the elephant will take on a magical quality and by involving each child in the design, the whole school will engage with the project."
Wild in Art is limiting the number of school’s projects to 100 and schools wishing to be involved should email charlie@wildinart.co.uk. On completion, the elephants will be herded together and displayed during Elephant Parade London 2010. Following the display, while their large cousins are being auctioned to raise funds for Elephant Family, the school elephants will be returned to the school as a legacy from the event.
Joanna Lumley, who has a strong association with India and Asia, has a ghurka-inspired giant frog to help promote HRH The Prince of Wales' campaign to stop rainforest deforestation. Her frog is one a team of celebrity frogs that will be joining school-painted giant frogs, created by Wild in Art, for The Prince's Rainforests Project’s Rainforest SOS campaign this autumn.
For further information about the Elephant education programme contact Charlie Langhorne on 01273 833146.
Editor's Notes:
About Elephant Family
Elephant Family is a young but hugely ambitious charity, working to save the endangered Asian elephant from extinction and abuse. Registered in 2003, it has developed into a lean and focused force for the endangered Asian elephant raising more than £3 million for projects in the field. Aware of the overcrowding in the charity sector, it exists out of urgent necessity due to a lack of investment and attention going into the Asian elephant’s conservation. Elephant Family is also the UK’s biggest investor in Asian elephants; they make the most noise about their plight and are the UK’s only charity solely dedicated to this aim.
www.elephantfamily.org
About Wild in Art
Wild in Art specialises in the creation, development and management of mass public appeal art events and related education activities. Its two signature events in 2008 were Go Superlambananas, commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company for its European Capital of Culture celebrations and Go Elephants which it ran in conjunction with the Forum Trust in Norwich. Go Superlambananas was rated the most popular event of Liverpool 2008 and in total Wild in Art events raised over £730,000 for charity.
Other events for 09/ 10 include putting 50 lion sculptures on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya for Pride of Kenya and Go Penguins, an initiative for Culture Liverpool (creating a winterscape of creatively designed penguins). Lions will also be used by Pride of Northampton in 2010 - and of course The Prince's Rainforests Project's giant frogs will be used this autumn - check out www.rainforestSOS.org.
www.wildinart.co.uk
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