Friday 6th November 2009
Kenya Wildlife Service Headquarters Nairobi
7pm to Midnight - Tickets KShs 5,000
Above - One of the 50 Lions to be auctioned on Friday 6th November
- Celebrity guests and speakers 50 Pride of Kenya lions
- Buffet Dinner (a blend of Kenyan and Indian)
- Entry to Pride of Kenya Gala Auction Silent Auction and Fun fundraising
- Dancing …and much more!
Virginia McKenna OBE, star of the film “Born Free” and founder of
international wildlife charity Born Free, together with Dr Julius
Kipng’etich, Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service, proudly invite
you to celebrate the Born Free Foundation’s 25th Anniversary at the
spectacular Pride of Kenya Gala Dinner and Auction in the presence of
Hon Dr. Noah Wekesa, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife.
2009 is a very special year. Not only is it the year that saw 50 stunning Pride
of Kenya lions fire the imagination of Nairobi’s citizens in the biggest public
wildlife art event the city has ever seen, but it also marks the Born Free
Foundation’s Silver Anniversary. It is 25 years since Virginia McKenna and
Bill Travers established the Foundation, following their starring roles in the
classic film ‘Born Free’. Today, led by their son Will, Born Free is a dynamic
international wildlife charity, devoted to conservation and animal welfare.
The Pride of Kenya Gala Dinner and Auction will be a unique celebration
of Kenya’s wildlife heritage and 25 years of the Born Free Foundation. It will
also, importantly, be an evening to raise funds to help conserve and protect
Kenya’s lions in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Commemorating the Born Free
Foundation’s 25th Anniversary
Join Virginia McKenna OBE and other special guests for a unique evening
Funds raised on the night will support Born Free Foundation
and KWS work with lions in Kenya!
For more information, please visit www.prideofkenya.co.ke
To buy tickets (at KShs 5,000), e-mail Born Free: prideofkenya@bornfree.or.ke
No entry without ticket.
This project is dubbed Pride of Kenya has been running since April this year and we are almost getting to the grand finale . The project was specifically meant to coincide with our 25th anniversary and it was only appropriate that it focuses on lions. We have 50 fibre glass lion sculptures made , 50 corporate sponsors for them at Kes 200,000 each. Each blank lion was then spruced up by an artist from a pool of artist who had applied to be part of the project. We had a street launch on the 2nd of September at the KWS and embarked on a 8 week street exhibition where the sculptures were displayed at various malls and the CBD in Nairobi.
The street exhibition ended on Sunday the 25th October and the lions are now in storage being touched up before the Gala Auction and Dinner on the 6th November which is also Born Free’s 25th Anniversary celebration. Bidding is already going on and you can bid on the night or send your silent bid to pridofkenya@bornfree.or.ke or alice@bornfree.or.ke. Bidding starts at Kes 250,000 per lion and the whole gallery can be viewed on our website www.prideofkenya.co.ke
Some of our sponsors are Kenya Association of Manufactures with 19 of their members and KAM itself sponsoring a lion each, Kenya Date networks who sponsored 2 lions and also hosted and updated our website free of charge, Nation Media Group, Radio Africa, Standard Chartered and KCB banks, Bamburi cement, Rift Valley Railways, Serena Hotels, Brookhouse and International Schools of Kenya, Sarit centre, CMC-Landrover and lots of others who were very enthusiastic and really felt attached to “their” lions. Infact some of them want to buy them back.
We are in the process of selling tickets which each ticket going for KES5000/= per head. You can also buy a whole table. We have tables of 8 and 10 but i believe the tables of 10 are sold out. We expect over 500 people. We have currently sold almost 350 tickets and we hope to sell more by mid next week. The ticket covers entry, dinner and dance and an opportunity to network and meet other conservation minded people and of course support and join the BF family on our 25th anniversary. All the lions will be in attendance. We also have a Souvenir Brochure guide with pictures of all the 50lions and profiles on all their sponsors and artists and this is going for Kes500. It is however free with every ticket purchased.
We have tickets desk at Sarit Centre, Prestige Plaza, Yaya Centre, Village Market and at our office in Karen- Dagoretti Road hse no. 256. You can also call us and we will give you more information. Our telephone numbers are Alice 0735 200 200, Phoebe 0720 460 369, Wanja 0722 524 837 or landlines +254 020 884972/ 884973/ 883974.
For more information on the auction please visit our website www.prideofkenya.co.ke
We look forward to seeing you there.
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