Sep 28 2009
Event: ACRES Roadshow!
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!
