City Strolls - events - meetings
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing Day
This is a call for actors, performers, musicians, costume makers, visual artists and all other imaginative people in or around Glasgow to participate in a Buy Nothing Day Spectacle on Saturday the 26th of November 2005. Although the idea is still in it's making, it will involve colorful (or
colorless) shoppers being over whelmed with their shopping, a giant trash
bag monster, using empty boxes to build walls in front of shops, doctors in
white lab suits diagnosing people with consumerism diseases, a boom box
disguised as a rubbish bin, and much more.
The idea is to raise awareness in a creative way about over consumption and
the potential alternative to this. The other objective is to use performance
and theatre to distract people from shopping therefore making this also a
form of direct action.
If you wish to help plan this event please get in touch with me and/or meet
at the Landsdow church on Great Western Road, right across from the
Kelvinbridge underground stop on Thursday the 17th of November at 18:00.
For more information on BuyNothingDay please visit
International : http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/
UK : http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
Just to let everyone know that there will also be a critical mass bike ride
on the 25th of November which will include reclaiming our rights to cycle
freely and safely in the Glasgow, followed by some screenings and free food
down at the G42 Social Center.
For more information about critical mass just do a google search ... It's an
international movement.
Bob, 22:50
