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LAREN AUCTION MARKS 10 YEARS OF ELEPHANT PARADE
Over 250 guests attended the Elephant Parade Laren auction. TV personality, Myrna Goossen, hosted the evening, opening the event with a film from Elephant Family, the parade beneficiary and Elephant Parade’s charity partner. The other auction beneficiaries were the Singer Laren museum and Papageno Huis, a local charity committed to helping children with autism.
Mike Spits, Founder of Elephant Parade, then took to the stage to talk about recent conservation experiences with elephants in Kenya and provided a background to Elephant Parade and its operations in Thailand.
The event auctioneer Junior Zegger and the notary, Mr M.F. le Coultre then began the bidding. Before each lot, many of the artists talked about the concept behind their works of art - such as Marcel Wolterinck, Gitte Spee, Marja Boot, Jean Marc des Bouvrie and Jackie Sleper.
Jackie Sleper’s elephant, “Gentle”, was sold for the highest bid of 25,000 Euros. Other lots included an exclusive trip to London, which sold for 1,800 Euros of which the full 100% goes to Elephant Family’s project to overcome human-elephant conflict through building 101 elephant corridors in India.
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Elephant Parade is the world’s largest open air art exhibition of decorated elephant statues that seeks to attract public awareness and support for Asian elephant conservation. Created by local and international artists, each elephant is a unique piece of art. Parades have been run in the following cities:
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Rotterdam 2007
Antwerp 2008
Amsterdam 2009
Emmen Zoo 2010
London 2010
Bergen 2010
Heerlen 2011
Copenhagen 2011
Milan 2011
Singapore 2011
Hasselt 2012
Trier-Luxembourg 2013
Dana Point, California 2013
The UK national tour 2013-14 - a 14-month non stop tour, visiting:
London, Manchester, Gateshead, Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham, Norwich, Newcastle, Uxbridge, Lakeside, Stoke, Watford and Bromley.
Calais 2015
Bangkok 2015
Florianopolis 2015
Taiwan 2016
Chiang Mai 2016
Sao Paolo, Brazil 2017
The Netherlands 2017
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