NUS PEACE

Hey All!

Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) will be celebrating World Animal Day this year at The Atrium @ Orchard again, and this year our focus will be on the issue of shark fin soup.

Here’s a chance to have fun and speak out in our fight against the shark fin tradition, so don’t miss out on this chance to be part of this exciting event!

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About the Event:

Date: 2 – 4 October (Friday to Sunday)
Venue: Atrium@Orchard (next to Plaza Singapura)
Time: 10am – 10pm

About:

When was the last time you were encouraged to break things? This weekend, ACRES is inviting everyone to come into town to throw a soup bowl against a wall. The broken pieces will be used on the spot to create a work of art — a gigantic, 15m long mosaic of a shark.

As many as 100 million sharks are killed every year, and many of them end up in soup bowls across Asia. The shark fin soup tradition is wasteful and destructive, because when sharks die, the entire marine food chain also collapses. So for this World Animal Day, we are asking you to help reverse this habit, and start putting sharks back together.

You will be asked to donate $2.00 for each soup bowl, and the proceeds will go towards ACRES’ education and animal welfare efforts. So come down to The Atrium@Orchard, near Plaza Singapura, to show that you care about animals, the environment and about leaving our marine legacy for future generations.

And have fun smashing bowls, breaking traditions and creating art— all at once.

An ACRES Event

Kindly Supported By:
Asian Geographic
Body Shop
MCUBE
BBDO Proximity Singapore
A-Pixels
Shark Tattoo
Plaza Singapura

The following artists have kindly volunteered to produce permanent art pieces with the broken bowls and spoons. We welcome more artists who are keen in being part of this. Watch out for the exhibition to follow in early 2010.

1. Rosihan Dahim
2. Andy Yang
3. Lucy Davis

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See you there!

PEACE!

Hey all!

Here’s something to put down on your calendar, for the mid semester break!

This coming monday (September 21) is the United Nations’ International Day of Peace – a global holiday when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to promote peace between all living things!
This year, the Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore) is coming together with several other local NGOs including UNIFEM Singapore, ACRES, WWF Singapore, SPCA, SEC, NSS, Student Care Services, and more to celebrate this special day. Participants can create iconic peace doves out of recycled materials before the event and then fly them around Singapore on the Day of Peace. This celebration seeks to spread messages of harmonious interactions with animals, the environment, and people in a very positive and inspiring way.

Event Details:

Date: Monday, September 21, 2009
Time: Registration at 4:30pm
Venue: Old School (11 Mount Sophia, Singapore 228461) www.oldschool.sg
Cost: Free
Highlights:

• Peace Dove Parade
• Singapore premiere of ”Taking Root,” a documentary that reveals the important link between being green and contributing towards peace.

*click here for more information!

It’s a good day to hang out with friends and spread the peace! :D

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Hey NUS people! :D

Do check out this event that’s happening on thursday (17 Sept) between 1230-1330!

Beyond Borders (Organized by the Office of Student Affairs)

Date: 17 Sept 2009

Time: 1230-1330

Venue: Central Library Theatrette 1 (4th Floor)

Speaker: Mr. Grant Peirera

About the Speaker: Grant Pereira has been an environmentalist and social activist for more than 30 years. He founded “The Green Volunteers” and is actively engaged in its program S.P.R.O.U.T.S. (Singapore Proudly Replanting Our Unique Trees and Shrubs). He sits on the Board of Advisors of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is a representative for The Elephant Nature Foundation and the Orang Utan Foundation (Indonesia). In 2000, he was awarded The Green Leaf Award by the Ministry of Environment for his ongoing efforts in making Singapore a cleaner and greener place.

RSVP by emailing develop@nus.edu.sg with your Full name and Matric number!

Hey!

Sinema (an independent cinema that shows mostly local and independent films) is hosting a film festival (Films For Change) from now (9 September) till 1 October. The focus of the film fest is social action, and you definitely should check out the film schedule if you’re interested! :D I’m not sure about you, but I really think it’s incredibly exciting and awesome that a month long film festival on the theme of social action can be pulled off here in Singapore!

The main themes of the festival are: Children and Youth, Human Rights Inequality, Social Media, and Sustainability (which includes the treatment of animals).

Earthlings will be screened several times during the festival, and the  screening of Earthlings on 20 September will be followed by a forum with speakers from ACRES. There will also be a talk on 29 September about cruelty free living.

Interested in nature (and wildlife) conservation in a more local context? You can also check out Remember Chek Jawa!

PEACE!