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Warren Ellis: Ellis Park

Published: April 28, 2022, 3:23 a.m.

\u201cIt's funny because with art, with literature, with music, we are all connected. It's emotion. You know, like if I say, \u201chave you read this or that,\u201d or\u2026 \u201cdo you know Alice Coltrane? Do you know John Coltrane?\u201d Whatever it is you've got a language and there's a connection going on. And, we should have that with the world. We should have that feeling of like an artistic sensibility to the world. We do have that with other things. People can talk about movies and they feel connected in a way. Religions connect people\u2026 we should be all connected by the Earth.\u201d \u2013 Warren Ellis

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Musician and composer, Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds had an extremely productive pandemic. Not only did he release two albums, two film scores and a book, but he also opened a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia.

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Last spring, Warren co-founded Ellis Park, a forever home for disabled wildlife in South Sumatra. It\u2019s a haven for animals who have been rescued from wildlife trafficking who are either too traumatized or too handicapped to be returned to the wild.

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Ellis Park will also be used as a hub to educate the public, locals and visitors to the park about the negative impacts on wildlife used in the tourism industry and those saved from the illegal pet trade and wildlife smuggling.

Last fall, Warren published his first book, Nina Simone's Gum. It\u2019s about a piece of gum that Nina Simone was chewing during her final concert in London. As she left the stage, she placed the chewed gum on her piano. Warren noticed and quickly snatched the gum. He kept it for over two decades\u2026 until a few years ago, when the gum took on a life of its own. The book is about meaning and connection and trusting intuition when it calls on you to follow a thread, and it\u2019s about the love and the magic that we humans are capable of. In many ways Ellis Park has a very similar story.

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Ellis Park:\xa0 https://www.ellispark.org/

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Ellis Park Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ellisparksumatra/

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Ellis Park facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EllisParkWildlifeSanctuary/

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Ellis Park Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EllisPark2021

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Warren Ellis Twitter: https://twitter.com/warrenellis13?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Warren Ellis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarrenellis/