B o r n e oRhythms of Rimba

Wildlife Festival 2015

MEDIA KIT 2015

Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd AUGUST 2015

Rainforest discovery Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan, Sabah

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www.futurealamborneo.org

Future Alam Borneo (FAB) is a not-for-profit, Malaysian society registered with the Registrar of Soci-eties.

It seeks to create opportunities, connections and platforms for Borneo’s ecological potential to be showcased to a broad audience, via channels of music, art, design, architecture, sport and other media.

We want the experiences to be fun, unforgettable and ultimately educational. FAB currently focuses on educational festivals, children’s books and public art installations.

The Borneo Rhythms of Rimba (or affectionately known as ROR) Wildlife Festival is a 2 day, outdoor festival that brings conservation and environmental awareness to the public in an accessible manner. We bring the Sabah-wide conservationists and scientists under one roof, and mix it up with artists, musicians, designers and creative people to create a weekend of colour, ideas and conservation content that will inspire the public to participate and take a lead in their own lives.

ROR2015 will come to life this August with the added partnership of PAWSE (Protective Action for Wildlife In Sabah through Education). PAWSE is a conservation vehicle set up by Sabah Wildlife Department and Danau Girang Field Centre, and headed by Jocelyn Stokes; to bring environ-mental education to the interior communities of Sabah and beyond.

With their involvement, comes ties to conservation bodies in Portland, Oregon such as the World Forestry Centre, Oregon zoo, and connections to various IUCN SSN experts. PAWSE has been instrumental in bringing exciting concepts such as the Human Nest experience by the Moab Monkeys to the RDC site, as well as various US musicians and creative talents.

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P.A.W.S.E

Protective Action forWildlife in Sabah

through Education

organising partner

Future Alam Borneo & PAWSE

The Borneo Rhythms of Rimba (ROR) Wildlife Festival is an annual gathering of wildlife and environmental content focusing on the biodiversity here in Sabah Borneo, and creating a support network and audience which spans many countries. Over 2 days, a whole host of wildlife experts, organisations and conservation-ists based in Sabah and from abroad, will come and set up camp at the Rainforest Discovery Centre, at the 4000 hectare Sepilok rainforest to create the most exciting and colourful wildlife, experiential education festival ever.

Delivering interesting conservation presentations and creating interactive exhibits, the festival also intermin-gles live music, art, design, sport and more inspiring stuff to draw the public to the core wildlife & environ-mental issues.

The first ROR was held last 2014, with an audience of almost 1200, and over 100 conservationists, scientists, artists and numerous creative people participating. The first festival was a predominantly local affair.

1. Future Alam Borneo aims to make the Borneo Rhythms of Rimba (ROR) Wildlife Festival the definitive wildlife conservation festival in South East Asian.

2. To create a platform for conservation to be promoted through different formats of experiential education.

3. To draw global attention to the biodiversity here on Borneo island; to celebrate it as well as recognise the urgency of its protection,

4. To inspire future generations to take up conservation efforts in their daily lives or as life-long professions.

BORNEO RHYTHMS OF RIMBA (ROR) WILDLIFE FESTIVAL Background

Objectives

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Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) site of ROR

Canopy walk and towers

RDC stage

RDC/ Sepilok forest satellite view

The ObservatoryNu EarthJason LoAzmyl YunorKien LimHezekiah AsimChase Emerson @ DJ Orang

Roger Wang & Gee MojinaFroyaAshes & Oak TreesRozella Manners Maketh ManCris AbanJamirus

Music

The festival is separated into 4 distinct zones -

• Conservation & Environment • Creative• Music• Adventure

1. Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD)2. Sabah Forestry Department (SFD)3. Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP)4. WWF Sabah5. Malaysia Nature Society (MNS)6. Orang Utan Appeal UK7. Bornean Sunbear ConservationCentre (BSBCC)

8. Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC)9. MSN Sabah10. HUTAN11. Reef Guardian (RG +SIMCA)12. Protective Action for Wilflife in Sabah through Education (PAWSE)

13. Malaysian Environmental NGOS (MENGO)

14. SMK Muhibbah15. SK Bandar Sandakan16. Yu Yuan School

17. IUCN Otter Specialist Group - Dr. Katrina Fernandez18. World Forestry Centre - US19. Jane Goodall Institute - SG20. IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group - Louise Fletcher 21. Greenschool - Indonesia

Conservation + Environment organisations

ROR2015

ROR2015 will bring together over 15 conservation and scientific organisations from Sabah and Malaysia, and several well respected organisations and personalities from around the world.

The theme of “Biodiversity and our future’ has been given them to prepare absorbing and thought-provoking presen-tations. Exhibits of work and other research materials will also be open to public display in the compound of RDC.

Local schools with alam sekitar programmes will also be in attendance.

Music has always brought people together and what more when the musicians take inspiration from our motherland and forests.

ROR2015 invites artists from very distinct and diverses backgrounds, a showcase of our own musical ‘biodiversity’. Encouraging youth to bring an environmental edge to universal passions such as music.

Adventure

Moab Monkeys US, a group of world record-holding, highliners, base jumpers and extreme adventurers will be rigging a giant web, to represent the kind of nests animals such as orang utans, sunbears, birds and insects build in forest habitats. By creating the Human Nest experience that interacts with Nature, we may better understand how important our trees are as habitat to such complex ecosystems.

The public will be offered, a professionally rigged, opportunity to access a 20’ x 20’ nest, rigged from 4 forest points, and accessible via zipline. This nest will be create over the RDC lake, and rise up among the forest canopy.

ROR2015 Highlights

©brian mosbaugh / slackline media

©brian mosbaugh / slackline media

Moab desert

Moab desert

Creative - Architecture / Design

ROR2015 Highlights

Salad Dressing Singapore, a landscape architecture group of international creatives, based in Singapore will be creating their ‘Sandokan back in Sandakan’ installation at the RDC forest. This treetop cinema project will create a canopy level screening platform, a stage on top of the highest habitats in the forest.

Taking the expression ‘getting close to Nature’ literally; the open air experience will feature the fictional pirate tale of Sandokan, a well known European story which has its roots in Borneo. This aims to brings 2 different worlds together - one of a heroic pirate and the other of the fast disappearing rainforests of Borneo - in an unlikely artistic marriage that will get audiences reminiscing/dreaming of foreign lands as well as wonder at our amazing forest habitats.

The public will only be able to see the installation from the canopy walkways of the RDC. The cinema will be set up to run under star-lit skies and feature ‘Sandokan’ and documentaries from the Borneo Eco Film Festival SUARA Komu-niti programme.

Creative - Art & DesignJonathan Yun JewelryCarolyn Lau - Seksan DesignMagic Borneo Beads

Pangrok SulapCracko Art Group (CAG)

Salad Dressing LandscapeArkitrekEvi Shelvia illustration

Wintercroft masks, a UK based mask design company, create animal masks for a variety of special events, including concerts for Base-ment Jaxx and other bands.

They have designed a series of Bornean animals for us, which we will feature at ROR2015. All ticketholders will receive a mask for them to DIY and bring to the festival.

Other creative highlights include jewelry designer Jonathan Yun from Penang who will share his craft of creating nature-inspired silver jewelry.

Carolyn Lau, a partner of Seksan Design, will be running a craft work-shop recycling daily materials.

Evi Shelvia, the illustrator who created the children’s book The Wild Treehouse of Borneo will be launching the book at ROR, and she has created the collage for ROR2015.

Sabahan art groups such as Pangrok Sulap and Cracko Art Group will engage the public in

The list of highly creative people sharing their craft and flair with the public, will further strengthen the repu-tation of ROR for bringing creativity to the conservation goal.

Photography by: http://www.kfearlessphotography.com/Masks built by and il lustrated by: http://www.shannonfaber.com/

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Adventure

Media Production Team

Balloon over Borneo RDC nightwalksBornean SunBear Conservation Centre tourSEPILOK jungle hikeTree climbing - Sabah Forestry DepartmentKayaking / Stand-Up Paddle boarding

ROR 2015 will offer more outdoor and challenging experiences for both adults and children. From tethered hot air balloon rides, to tree climbing and ziplining, and more.

By active engagement, we hope people to will get to know the forest habitat better and appreciate its value not just to wildlife, but to humanity too.

N.B. All presenters & performers listed in the proposal are expected to attend but circumstances may dictate changes. FAB will update all programme info as regularly as possible.

For further information on ROR2015 or Future Alam Borneo please contact -

Anton Nguiinfo@futurealamborneo.org

+6 0122071044

www.futurealamborneo.org

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WILD & STOKED productions US

LA Studio MalaysiaSTORY MOMENT Photography Malaysia

ROR2015 will be covered and documented by an international media team of videographers, photographers and production people this year. The festival content will be recorded for partner organisations to keep as well as use for their own promotional purposes.