On the green vendors & charity booths end, we have Just Life, Tiny Tapir, Forest Voices, The Light Show, Animal Care, Parents Without Partners Jumble Station and The Recyclists.
On the fashion front, we have an extremely chic line up of Threadszoo Comes To Aid, Lah Lah Land, Oh Popsicles!, Ladies In The House, Bag2Bag, Cerita De Beca, JP Beads, Deoldies, Vavavoom, Afternoon Tea, Teenstations & more!
For green celebrities, we have Amber Chia's Stella McCartney Adidas jacket (see picture) now available for bidding, starting from RM 100, interested bidders please email your contacts and bidding price to recyclicts.malaysia@gmail.com
Also in the line-up is Xandria Ooi, Miss Ooi will be participating in our Celebrity Booth and selling her chic pre-loved fashion items. Watch this space for updates on her auction items! We have Hannah Lo working on a special painting (yes, she is also a painter besides all the other fabulous things) for this event! So watch this space for updates on the painting, it will be up for public bidding soon!
Other celebrities donating to the fashion-on-auction are Joyce Kirsten Wong & Deborah Henry.
For entertainment, we have the vivacious duo of Nell Ng and TP Lim as emcees for the day. They will be presenting the Live-Juke-Box with our impressive cast of fabulous singing personalities: Chelsia Ng, Ida Mariana, Ash Nair, Edwin Sumun, Junji Delfino, Zalina Lee, Peter Ong, Elvira Arul, Sharizan Borhan, Tony Loe and Poesy Liang.
So? Bring your boyfriends, girlfriends, families & colleagues down to Noble Banquet this national day, mark your Aug 31st!
**Special announcement**
Who is Forest Voices? An organisation that provides tools and training for sensitive forest and agriculture communities to document knowledge and management using photography, video, and participatory methods. This gives communities a voice to create a future that reconciles differences and maintains hope and health that keeps forests, farms and communities thriving.
The camera Donations...
The donated cameras from the public will go to the forest communities to document changes of the forest, land use, and issues of direct concern to them. In the world of conservation, documenting this kind of local knowledge is key to sustaining healthy forests for generations and establishing dialogue. What is more exciting is when people’s ideas can lead to direct projects based on people’s own thoughts and questions. In addition to using these images to create books and a more nuanced understanding of forest communities, Forest Voices also use these images to apply for grants that directly benefit local people. Within the next year, some potential projects include a tree nursery training, forest tree seed sharing networks and mediation training and learning exercises.
Camera Donations for Forest Voices
Camera donations can help forest communities to document changes of the forest, land use, and issues of direct concern to them. In the world of conservation, documenting this kind of local knowledge is key to sustaining healthy forests for generations and establishing dialogue. What is more exciting is when people’s ideas can lead to direct projects based on people’s own thoughts and questions. In addition to using these images to create books and a more nuanced understanding of forest communities, I use these images to apply for grants that directly benefit local people. Within the next year, some potential projects include a tree nursery training, forest tree seed sharing networks and mediation training and learning exercises.
What kind of equipment is useful? Forest Voices is accepting digital point and shoot and DSLR cameras for donation. Cameras need to be in good working order. Aside from that, standard compact flash card or SD cards also make a wonderful donation. Cameras that accept regular AA or 3 volt batteries are preferred.
How to donate? You can drop off your old but still good cameras at the No Plastic Bazaar on 31 August and upon receipt of the camera, you’ll receive a tax deductible donation receipt.
You will be helping out a good cause to document Malaysia’s fast disappearing forest knowledge!
Compiled by Janet
