Regis in Time Square!! Regis sur Time Square!!

Regis has been appearing on a Time Square bill board as part of a NEAVS press release

The time stamp on this one reads: Sept 9 at 16:21:40; it ran several other times too.

How cool is that!!

Regis a été vu sur le panneau publicitaire du Time Square lors d'un communiqué de presse de NEAVS.

L'heure indique : le 9 septembre à 16:21:40. Il y a eu plusieurs parutions.

Cool hein?

World Animal Day - 1st Time in Quebec

Sunday, October 4, 2009 – In Front of Parliament

World Animal Day – For the 1st Time in Quebec

12:30pm Assembly in front of Parliament, Quebec City

1:00pm-1:45pm Distribution of white balloons. Important: See note below

1:45pm A word from the organizer before the commencement of the march.

2:00pm Departure to rue Grande Allée and rue Cartier and return by rue St-Jean

4:30pm End of event

Following the march there will be a release of white doves on a background of acoustic music to commemorate all the animals killed with cruelty. A petition will be distributed for signature until 4:30pm.

Amongst other prominent people, the Honorable Marlene Jennings, Member of Parliament for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Lachine will walk with us on this important day.

The purpose of this march is to ask our government to make radical changes to the legislation on cruelty to animals, which dates back to 1892. The current law still considers animals as property and objects. It makes it very difficult to get justice and allows animal abusers to continue their practice of killing innocent beings by brutal and barbaric methods. The present law allows healthy, innocent animals to be put into shelters and pounds. When placed in kill-pounds, they will suffer severely and be exposed to horrendous torture, including a slow death in the gas chambers.

The animals feel pain just like we do. They are our companions and help us go through life with dignity. We owe them so much. Let us be the voice for the voiceless. Thank you for your presence.

**Animals are welcome and please do not forget water and waste bags. **

Important Notes:

The doves will be released and returned home after the march.

To protect our environment, please do not release the balloons. You can take them home or they will be picked up by someone at the end of the march.

http://www.lesevenementsarsenik.com/jmdaqc.html or www.lesevenementsarsenik.com

Dimanche le 4 OCTOBRE 2009 - Devant le Parlement.

World Animal Day - La première fois à Québec

Rassemblement de 12h30 à 13h45 avec distribution de ballons blancs. Suivra une marche pacifique se terminant par une envolée de colombes sur une musique acoustique de Martin Carré à la mémoire des animaux morts dans la cruauté. NB: Les colombes reviennent à leur demeure.

Des personnalitées réputées dont Mme Marlene Jennings marcheront avec nous en cette importante journée.

Le but de cette marche est pour demander au gouvernement de renforcir la législation sur la cruauté envers les animaux. Datant de 1892, la loi actuelle considère les animaux comme des biens. La loi existante permet le placement des animaux sains et innocents dans les abris et des fourrières. Quand placé aux fourrières, ils souffriront sévèrement et seront exposés à la torture affreuse, y compris une mort lente dans les chambres à gaz.

Apportez vos pancartes pour protester contre des chambres à gaz, les usines à chiots, animaux de ferme, plumes ou pour demander que des modifications radicales soient apportées aux lois animales existantes.

Venez avec votre animal de compagnie si vous le désirez. (N'oubliez pas l'eau et les sacs pour leur besoins.)

Les animaux ressentent la souffrance comme nous tous. Ils sont nos compagnons, ils nous aident à traverser les épreuves. Nous leur devons beaucoup.

Soyez la voix qu’ils n’ont pas. Merci d'être présent.

http://www.lesevenementsarsenik.com/jmdaqc.html ou http://www.lesevenementsarsenik.com/

Volunteers

As you all know Fauna has yearly volunteers that come and spend time to help out where ever it may be needed...This past month we had the opportunity of welcoming Jim Sibley and Amanda Bradley back to the sanctuary as well as Taylor from Animal Alliance...They were all amazing and managed to get many task completed, from putting up shelving for our office, helping Richard move and plant trees, as well as, spend time helping out in the chimp house with night time packages, smoothies, tea, trolleys and much more.



Taylor and Kathleen making enrichment

It is always a pleasure to have them around and we are already looking forward to next year!!!

Thanks a bunch guys!!
Sincerely the Fauna Team

Toby enjoying the view!! Toby observe le paysage!

Toby watching over all the Fauna workers!! he was quite happy to see how excited I was to see him all the way up there...more photos to come....sorry, the others are on a real camera with film!!

Toby qui surveille tous les employés de Fauna!! Il était heureux de me voir si excitée lorsque je l'ai aperçu tout en haut. D'autres photos bientôt! Désolée! Elles sont toutes sur un appareil avec une pellicule!

Frank Noelker's photographs of the Fauna Chimpanzees

Beautiful and often unsettling, Frank Noelker's photographs of animals have enthralled viewers for over 20 years. Presented in this exhibition is a retrospective of images from his Captive Beauty and Portraits series. For Captive Beauty, Noelker traveled to zoos in many parts of the world to capture images of the animals that are housed there. His Portraits series frames the noble faces of chimpanzees that are retired from biomedical research, the entertainment industry and the pet trade. They now live out their lives at the Fauna Foundation sanctuary in Montreal, Canada and the Center for Great Apes, Wauchula, Florida, where these photographs were made. Noelker's large scale, closely framed, formal portraits of these creatures show us their humanity and the independent spirit still within them.


Beauty, captivity clash in zoo photographs

By David Bonetti

POST-DISPATCH VISUAL ARTS CRITIC


In Doug Aitken's video projection "migration (empire) — linear version" at the St. Louis Art Museum, we see animals in motel rooms. In Frank Noelker's "Of Animals" at the Sheldon, we see animals in cages. In both cases, the habitation is uneasy.

The fate of wild animals in captivity is a concern in art as well as society at large.

In the exhibition at the Sheldon, Frank Noelker, an art professor at the University of Connecticut who grew up in St. Louis, shows a powerful series of photographs of animals in zoos. He took the photographs in the late '90s, visiting more than 300 zoos.

In the work, he makes it clear that although contemporary zoos strive to create comfortable environments for their charges, the animals are, for the most part, alienated and bored, if not depressed in captivity.


That doesn't mean that they are not beautiful. The disconnect between their natural beauty and their cramped quarters adds to the images' poignancy.

In an essay in "Captive Beauty," a book of Noelker's zoo photography, Nigel Rothfels writes that the importance of Noelker's images rests in the fact that they highlight the human environment within which animals in zoos live. Rothfels, a zoo historian, points out that most zoo photography tries to hide the man-made environment and make the animals look as if they are living in the wild.

The inadequacy of cosmetic attempts to mask the fact that the animals inhabit concrete pens is shown repeatedly in Noelker's images. The painting of the blue sky and the sere African plain in a pen at a Washington, D.C., zoo might fool a visitor, but it's unlikely that it fools the giraffe that awkwardly occupies it.

Even more absurd is the painted backdrop of a big sky and ocean in a Texas zoo for a bird that in nature would be flying through it. If it tried it here, it would batter itself against a concrete wall.

Noelker considers himself a concerned photographer, which means he wants to make the viewer see and think the way he does about his subject. His work raises questions about freedom and autonomy and interspecies politics.

In his essay, Rothfels points out that humans have kept exotic animals since ancient times and that modern zoos are historically perhaps the most sensitive to animals' needs. Still, it is clear that zoos exist to satisfy a human desire at odds with that of the inmates.


The fact that many of the animals kept in them would not survive in the wild today, that their natural habitat has been destroyed or fatally compromised, only complicates matters.

The Sheldon is also showing a series of portraits of chimpanzees rescued or retired from laboratories or "roadside" zoos and now living in refuges. These images, which Noelker made during the first half of this decade, are even more harrowing than the zoo photographs. We can't help but relate to chimpanzees, which seem human to us.

Noelker accentuates the connection by photographing at large scale the faces of his subjects, emphasizing their individual personalities. These are true portraits, not wildlife photographs.

The stories of the subjects' lives are attached to each image. These creatures, which might remind you of an elderly relative, spent years in research laboratories, where they repeatedly underwent horrific tests.

The story of Rachel is typical. Raised as a pet, she was deposited at a lab when she was 3 years old. For the next 11 years, she lived in isolation and was anesthetized 235 times. She was given 39 punch liver biopsies and underwent surgery in a test for Nutrasweet.

"She fell into an extended period of depression and was treated repeatedly for rashes and sores on her neck and wrists inflicted on herself during anxiety attacks," the text reads. "She also bites all of her nails to the quick, rubbing them until there is nothing left."

Today, Rachel is a retiree at the Fauna Foundation in Montreal. In her portrait, she looks totally withdrawn into herself.

Of course, reading the feelings of animals from their "portraits" is not a science. If we have a hard time reading the feelings of human beings in their representations, how can we even begin to determine animals' psychological states? Still, these portraits of chimpanzees suggest that their subjects have a long way yet to go to achieve healing.

BERLIN'S BUILDINGS

In its gallery devoted to architecture, the Sheldon is showing a photographic portrait of Berlin through its buildings. They were taken in 2006-2007 by Amy Metzger while she was on a fellowship there. Metzger is in medical school at Washington University.

Berlin has been ideologically one of the most contested sites in Europe, if not the world, during the past 100 years. Metzger intentionally photographs buildings that represent ideological moments. From the Berlin Cathedral, built on commission of the Kaiser, to Sony headquarters in a rebuilt Potsdamer Platz, all the eras from empire to global capitalism are represented here.

The postwar modernism of West Berlin faces off the socialist classicism of East Berlin. The functional modernism of the Third Reich — the Tempelhof Airport and the Olympic Stadium — is not overlooked.

Metzger has a particularly telling series of images of memorials and monuments, from the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the West and the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park in the East to the recent Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

Aesthetically, Metzger's black and white images are classic examples of modernism. They purport to be objective, without editorializing on the part of the photographer, but Metzger does not deny her eye for structure and composition. The blank overcast skies are reminiscent of the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, which has influenced Metzger's work as it has influenced an entire generation of contemporary photographers.

All prints found on our order form are all portraits taken by Frank Noelker.....Special thanks goes out to Frank for allowing us to use and distribute his photographs of the Chimpanzees here at Fauna!!

More great gifts for the Fauna Chimpanzees

Diane Denis & Samuel Bernier!!

Karen, Bruce, Warren & Tracey Pratte

Sonia Boulet & Roger Roy

Julia DrawBell !

Denielle Duncan, Patty Duncan, Caroline Hanman & Terri Daniels !!!

Denielle has been a long time monthly donor, and along with all the amazing gifts she came and spent a weekend to volunteer with her Daughter Patty. They helped out in the chimp house and were a pleasure to have around....

Caroline Mathieu one of fauna's newest volunteers !

James Brooks does it again!! Un autre de James Brooks!

Please, check out the following video of James Brooks doing a presentation about great apes. Enjoy!!
Allez voir le vidéo de James Brooks qui fait une présentation à propos des grands singes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Below you will also find the like to his site 1000 class rooms... Sur le site ci-dessous vous trouverez d'autres présentations semblables sur son site 1000 class rooms.

http://1000classrooms.org/News.html