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Ladies and gentlemen, there are only 5 days to go until THE ELEPHANT EXTRAVAGANZA!!

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to come and learn more about the plight of elephants in the wild, meet others interested in conservation and potentially win one of many, many prizes, including a Namibian safari for two!!  The night is hosted by Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic and The Chaser’s War on Everything’s Chris Taylor, with a special performance by the wonderful Kamahl.  Live music by Mark Gable from the Choirboys and the rocking tunes of Glenn Cardier.

Tickets are still available through the Arthouse Hotel at www.thearthousehotel.com.au or tel. 9284 1200 for just $20.  Please tell your friends, pass this email on, or better still, buy them a ticket!  All proceeds to Animal Works and elephant conservation.

Hi folks

Thanks to everyone who has already picked up a copy of “Elephant Dance”, on shelves now across Australia!  I’ve been waffling on about human-elephant conflict on radio all week, but today I reached new highs by talking about elephant farts on national radio.  If you missed it, you can listen to my chat with Richard Aedy on ABC’s Life Matters by clicking here.

It’s not too late to pick up your ticket to the Elephant Extravaganza – click here to secure your place at the Arthouse Hotel or log onto Animal Works to enter our enormous elephant competition for a chance to win a $7000 Wilderness Safaris adventure in Namibia!

And finally, I’m back at St Ives library on Friday at 10am, this time with artist Nafisa Naomi and film maker Dr Steve Van Mil, talking about elephants and the different ways we’re using art, film and the written word to spread the message about their plight.  Bookings through Penny at St Ives library on 94240 453.  Your $7 entry goes to elephant conservation through Animal Works – and you get morning tea!

Cheers

Tammie

It happens all the time in India…  Elephants get injured by people as they venture into tea gardens and rice paddies, areas that were once elephant habitat, now human territory.  This poor elephant was injured and then got trapped in a tea garden trench.  The horrible thing is this is happening all the time.

http://www.wti.org.in/current-news/090826_elephant_severely_injured_in_conflict_gets_treatment.html

The good news is that there are vets like Pranab Boro and Anjan Talukdar from the Wildlife Trust of India who risk their own lives to save these elephants.  This is why we’re running the Elephant Extravaganza on 19th October.  Some of the funds raised on the night will help support the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation in Assam, India, where Anjan and Pranab work, and where elephant babies orphaned by the escalating human-elephant conflict have a chance at life.  Please come along and lend your support or click here to find out how you can help Animal Works online!

Well, it’s not very often that I can say something like that… but honestly, it’s true!

All you have to do for a chance to win this week long adventure for two to Namibia is enter our elephant competition!  It’s all part of the Elephant Extravaganza, an event I’m helping to run to raise funds and awareness for elephant conservation with artist Nafisa Naomi and film maker Steve van Mil on 19th October at the Arthouse Hotel.   By entering our competition you have a great chance to win yourself a week’s worth of mind-blowing, life-changing African adventure with Wilderness Safaris and Epic Private Journeys and know that your $20 is going to a great cause!  And there’s loads of other great prizes to be won, including crystal from Swarovski, African books from Pan Macmillan Australia and loads more!

If you don’t live in Sydney or can’t make it to the Arthouse Hotel on the night (Monday, 19th October, 6pm), don’t worry – you can still enter the competition on line by clicking here.  While you’re on the Animal Works website, take a look at the incredible elephant art by Nafisa Naomi (click here).  She’s donating half the profits of the sales to elephant conservation and you can buy her prints on line – they make great Christmas presents!

We have set up a registered not-for-proft organisation called Animal Works to allow us to raise awareness and channel funds for wildlife conservation to the places that need it.  Proceeds from the Elephant Extravaganza will help feed the victims of human-elephant conflict, a dozen orphaned elephants at the Wildlife Trust of India’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, assist WWF India to establish chilli-based elephant deterents to reduce human-elephant conflict, and support the making of the documentary “Elephant Wars”.

Tickets to the Elephant Extravaganza are selling fast so secure your place now through the Arthouse Hotel by clicking here!

Cheers & thanks for your support…  Please pass this message onto your friends and colleagues!

Tammie

Sorry folks, I was having a pregnancy moment and got the day wrong!  Tony and I are talking at St Ives Library this Friday 4th September, not Tuesday.

And while I’m at it, if you haven’t picked up your own copy of Sally Henderson’s latest book, Ivory Moon, get down to your local bookstore and get yourself one!  Sally and I have been great mates for a long time (well before we ever dreamed we’d get to be published writing about Africa) and she writes about Africa with an insider’s knowledge and a truly deep and beautiful appreciation of its mysteries and wonders.  If you loved her first book “Silent Footsteps” you don’t want to miss this one…

Sally’s long love affair with Africa and its elephants was brought to life in the bestselling Silent Footsteps. Her new book Ivory Moon continues that affair in one of the most inhospitable landscapes on the planet…

Vivid and immediate, Sally’s depiction of the wildlife that rules Africa is unparalleled. Ivory Moon takes us into the heart of a strange desert world where nothing is as it seems.

If you fancy a yarn about Africa this Friday 4th September and you live in Sydney, pop into the St. Ives library (St. Ives Shopping Centre) at 10.30am where fellow Pan Macmillan author and Africa addict Tony Park and I will be there talking about Africa and our new books.  Most of you will know Tony’s African novels (he’s Australia’s Wilbur Smith and his latest one “Ivory” is out now), but now he’s trying his hand at non-fiction with what is bound to be a ripping yarn about South Africa’s lion whisperer, Kevin Richardson.  It’s called “Part of the Pride” and it’s out in September.  I’ll be talking about my soon to be released book about human-elephant conflict in Africa and India, “Elephant Dance”, and showing a few of my favourite photos and stories.  Hope to see you there!

Kevin Richardson has been dubbed “The Lion Whisperer”. It’s a title he doesn’t like, but how else can you label his extraordinary relationship with these beautiful yet deadly animals? As a zoologist and animal behaviourist, he works at a lion park in South Africa. Here he has formed incredible relationships with the big cats – playing with them, lying down with them, being included in every part of their lives as “one of the pride”. Those who work with lions in the traditional way – using sticks, chains and coercion – call him crazy. But Kevin’s ability to get inside the head of a lion, using love, patience and a unique empathy, have kept him safe in situations that would result in certain death to anyone else. This is Kevin’s incredible story. How a man could become part of a lion pride, and a fascinating insight into the lives of one of the world’s most beautiful and powerful animals.

Hi folks!

I’ve finally joined the modern age, got myself a proper website (www.tammiematson.com) and have a new book coming out in a couple of months called “Elephant Dance”.  To coincide with its launch in October, I’m getting together with some great friends of mine, artist Nafisa Naomi and film producer Steve van Mil, for an evening of elephantine fun and merriment at the Arthouse Hotel, Pitt Street, Sydney, and this is your official invitation! 

The Elephant Extravaganza is on 19th October and it’s all about raising funds and awareness for elephant conservation.  Nafisa Naomi is generously donating most of the proceeds from the incredible elephant artworks she’s created to this great cause.  You can see some of her work at www.animalworks.com.au – there is something for every budget and every home needs an elephant in it, right?  It’s good luck!  Plus on the night there will be a special preview of Animal Media Australia’s human-elephant conflict documentary, “Elephant Wars” and also plenty of signed copies of my books up for grabs.

$20 gets you in the door, including a couple of drinks from the bar and nibbles.  Tickets are available through the Arthouse Hotel or at the door on the night.  Once you’re there you stand to win a whole load of prizes in our giant elephant competition ($20/ticket).  Top prize in the competition is a Namibian safari for two people with Wilderness Safaris and Epic Private Journeys worth over $7000!!  There are loads of other prizes too and all proceeds go towards elephant conservation… 

So put the night in your diary – 19th October, 6pm!  More details will be coming soon…  but in the meantime, log onto the Animal Works website for more information – www.animalworks.com.au .  Please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested in coming along and put it in your diary!  If you can’t see the flyers below, you might need to view in html or drop me a line and I’ll send you them in jpeg.

Cheers, Tammie

travel diary coming soon…