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Keep your eyes (and bananas) peeled, because the Mankey Monkeys are on the loose! Over 100 unique, crazy, funny Monkeys are taking up residence in venues across the city for the next few months. Their mission? To put a smile on your face, and show everyone what Liverpool can do when businesses work together!
So what can we expect to see on the “Monkey Map”? SuperMonkeyBanana? Check. Blinging Chimphuahua? Check. Shankly Monkey? Check. Monkey made of bricks? Check. ChipMonkey? Check. Washed-up-stuntman Monkey? Check. Half-fish, half-Billy Butler Monkey with a comb over? Of course. There'll even be a Monkey we can only see on TV! He'll be the latest star of a proper national TV show, we'll tell you about that in the next issue.
Mankey Monkey is a HUGE, city-wide, charity art project headed by the creative magicians at Hallangen Art, along with web marketing genii It's About Websites and friendly media moguls Your Business eZine.
They receive no public funding whatsoever, and everyone involved is giving their time and services for free. Financially, they are supported solely by businesses and organisations of Liverpool and Merseyside, who are fostering the Mankey Monkeys while they're on show.
As well as being fun and entertaining, and keeping up Liverpool's amazing positivity since 2008's Capital of Culture year, the project is a testament to the strength of the city's business community. In a testing time for everyone, from major corporations to one-man-bands, so many are seeing the benefit of working together, supporting the city as a whole, with one of the wackiest ideas the city has ever seen.
Eirin Hallangen-Lake at Hallangen Art hints at the future, “Since 2008, people have seen what art can do for the city. Not only does it entertain, brighten things up, and even support charities - but brings a direct financial boost. Businesses are starting to see public art as an exciting, original way of raising their own profile, and that of their city. Liverpool's image is now a cultured, vibrant, cosmopolitan place and we aim to keep it that way. I'd say 'watch this space', but then I'd have to slap myself.”
The Monkeys will be on display for the next few months, then they will go into a GRAND CHARITY AUCTION to raise money for Alder Hey Imagine Appeal. Monkey Maps will be available soon in Tourist Information Centres and locations throughout Liverpool.
Stay up to date with all Mankey Monkey news and events at www.mankeymonkey.com and www.facebook.com/mankeymonkey.
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