Recent Events
Bristol Festival of Nature
12th/13th June 2010
At this year’s Bristol Festival of Nature, GAFI and the Ape Alliance seized a great opportunity to raise awareness of ape conservation and the profile our work.
Sharing a stand, we were very busy running an ape colouring/drawing competition for children, whilst volunteers, dressed as gorillas and orangutans, rode electric scooters loaned for the event from our sponsor http://www.i-scoot.co.uk/. We were also able to raise funds through bucket collections for the GAFI Ugandan Pedal Power Cinema Project.
Everyone at the festival and many more in South West England would have struggled to miss us as we were interviewed live on the Big Screen in Millenium Square at the festival and featured on BBC Points West. Many thanks to everyone who helped out with the festival.
Stroud Festival of Nature
5th June 2010
At the Stoud Festival of Nature GAFI, in association with the Ape Alliance, used a 14ft Yurt to house a pedal-powered cinema, with members of the public volunteering to provide power!
We showed films from the GAFI library such as “Green” www.greenthefilm.com/, as well as GAFI reports from the field and animated short conservation films. There was also face-painting for children.
We were raising funds for the GAFI Ugandan Pedal Power Cinema Project through bucket collections.
Quite a stir was created by our volunteers, dressed in gorilla and orangutan suits, riding electric scooters loaned for the event from our sponsor www.i-scoot.co.uk.
The day provided an opportunity for good exposure and awareness-raising, particularly when we were interviewed live on Faye Hatcher’s Saturday Show for BBC Radio Gloucestershire. Thank you to the tireless efforts of our volunteers.
Previous Events
Pedalling for Primates, Oxford Brookes
On Wednesday 10th March 2010, Oxford Brookes University kindly came to our rescue and provided an excellent venue at short notice for our screening, in association with the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS), of Patrick Rouxel’s ‘Losing Tomorrow’, a poetical film on the habitat of orangutans and an insight into the logging industry in Indonesia.
Screened using a newly developed Pedal Power Cinema, a large audience also had the chance to see ‘Dear Mr President’, a short film created at the request of local communities in Sumatra, and to listen to world-renowned conservationist, Ian Redmond.
All money raised at this event will go towards a Pedal Power Cinema for conservation education projects with communities living near the last remaining forests in Sumatra.
Read an article about the event on the Amelia’s Magazine website:
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Port Lympne
Port Lympe Wild Animal Park kindly hosted a GAFI pedal powered screening event to highlight the Year of the Gorilla on Saturday, 16th May 2009.
All money raised will go toward a pilot Pedal Powered screening project in Uganda.
More dates to be announced shortly so please keep checking the site!
