A chosen busy shopping route was proclaimed a free space for picnic-fun in the heart of Southampton 4 'Buy Nothing Day'.
picnic for buynothingday Southampton shopping area
Many people ‘slipped on’ to ‘buy nothing fun mode’ after getting inquisitive at seeing the street party of free fairtrade fun gathering in front of them.
In what became a meeting of minds (older and younger), fun and friendship (old and new) broke out when a picnic (fairtrade-(d) and fun) commenced in the busy shopping-route lanes of Southampton, UK. This picnic (Saturday 26/11/05), marked the necessity to better enable ourselves to meet in 'buynothing areas' at such a time as this.
'Glitter-free' our picnic of free fairtrade coffee, bananas and con(less)versation occurred with older and younger people meeting to chat and put down their ideas on bananas (we also inadvertantly & creatively resisted the 2 large star$ cafe's that oppose small fairtraders 4 monopoly$, in the process).
Later the banana decorated skins were used to make a smiley face, by the collaborating artists who had attended the ‘buy nothing’ picnic’, in further high-quality collaborative fun.
In what became a meeting of minds (older and younger), fun and friendship (old and new) broke out when a picnic (fairtrade-(d) and fun) commenced in the busy shopping-route lanes of Southampton, UK. This picnic (Saturday 26/11/05), marked the necessity to better enable ourselves to meet in 'buynothing areas' at such a time as this.
'Glitter-free' our picnic of free fairtrade coffee, bananas and con(less)versation occurred with older and younger people meeting to chat and put down their ideas on bananas (we also inadvertantly & creatively resisted the 2 large star$ cafe's that oppose small fairtraders 4 monopoly$, in the process).
Later the banana decorated skins were used to make a smiley face, by the collaborating artists who had attended the ‘buy nothing’ picnic’, in further high-quality collaborative fun.
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buying positively nothing
28.11.2005 21:42
Angela