Elephant Parade 2011

The Elephant Parade is the 'IN' thing now. Our crew head on the streets to give you the latest happenings and some scoops on what the RMT students are up to!:D

There may be tonnes of exhibitions that you feel not worth attending; but you cannot afford to miss the Elephant Parade. The Elephant Parade is held for the sole purpose of raising funds to help the Asian Elephants.

It started with a visit to Chiang Mai’s elephant hospital where Marc and Mike Spits saw Mosha. Mosha, the baby elephant, lost her limb after accidentally stepping on a landmine. It was a very miserable sight. This sparked the father and son team to start the project to create the awareness of the pain that the elephants are going through.

In 2007, the first ever Elephant Parade was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Over the years, the parade toured 10 cities and this year it’s Singapore’s turn. To date, a herd of 162 baby elephants marched the shores of Singapore and they are placed at various venues. These life size fiberglass sculptures are decorated and hand-painted by local artists like Tina Tan Leo, owner of alldressedup and Dick Lee. Renowned artisans around the world including Paul Smith and Marc Quinn also paint these elephants.

To prove that we also have a flair for painting, our RMT students joined the painting workshop conducted by Tangs held on 5 December 2011.

The elephant replicas are available at the 1^st Avenue kiosk and they come with signatures of the artists. You can also paint your own personalized elephant by purchasing the art box set. If you’ve got the talent and finesse, submit your entries to enter the best-decorated elephant contest! If your elephant is chosen, it will be mass-produced and you too, can get instantly famous! (Who knows you may emerge victorious out of the hundreds of hopefuls?)

All the 162 elephants will be displayed in The Singapore Botanical Gardens from 8-11 January 2012. Entrance would be free of charge, so hop on and join the herd!