Rhino Africa has always marched to the beat of our own drum, a wonderfully rhythmic African drum. So when it came to celebrating World Rhino Day this year we thought we’d do something a little bit different, that would involve everyone at Rhino Africa and was fun while also creating awareness about the day itself.
We decided to pool our creative talent and paint a team mural, a 9 metre x 6 metre work of art of a rhino with her baby. With each rhino responsible for their own square, we gathered after work over the course of a week, poured some wine, pumped some music and let the magic flow, or not. Some of them an 8-year-old would have scorned, but generally they came out surprisingly well.
The next step was to bring it all together. We snuck out over lunch one day, the entire office marching en masse to the nearby Company’s Garden to assemble what we were now calling, ‘The Biggest Rhino Painting in All the World’. The pieces all looked fairly similar to one another so for the important process of assembling we called on a select group of Rhinos to lead the way. They dressed as rhinos. A rhino in a rhino. Rhinoception. I think it came together better than we could ever have imagined. I’ll leave it up to the video to show you exactly how it all played out…
As David says in the video, ‘Every piece of our puzzle is important to build something truly great. This little project is a perfect example that when we work together we can do amazing things and that not even the sky is the limit.’
And check out our exciting first 360 degree video here. Drag your mouse to move around the camera!
Happy World Rhino Day 2016! 