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Hello Grey Lynn 2030ers
Nothing to do this weekend?- there is plenty on in our community starting with Art with Love 2009 – Richmond Road School’s annual public art auction
The Gallery will be open during the weekend from 11am -4pm. Coffee supplied by Coffee Supreme
Auction is being held on Tuesday 10 November at 7pm, viewing from 5pm.
check out the website for more details www.artwithlove.org
Richmond Road School 113 Richmond Road Ponsonby, gallery entrance is on Douglas Street.
Queries email ange@artwithlove.org
Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly community meeting Wednesday 11 November
We have another monthly meeting coming up next Wednesday. Keeping it quite low key this month and thinking about what we can get up to in 2010. If you have a good idea for a local project and want to raise it and get some other like minded folk to get involved here is your chance to speak up and present to the group.
Positive Vision, Practical Action evening
Grey Lynn 2030 has a vision of a self –reliant, positive, resilient, vibrant, connected and sustainable community. This month the focus groups are updating on making this vision a reality through practical steps. The Grey Lynn Farmers Market is a great example of what amazing results come out of our monthly meetings and community engagement.
Please come a long to get involved and share your ideas with the current focus groups (Waste Away, Traffic calming, Edgars Stream Restoration, Community gardens, Green Screen, Local Government Relations) or to get new focus groups up and running. All welcome at 7.30pm at the Grey Lynn Community Centre
Wilton St Community Garden
We had a fantastic day on Nov 4th with the BNZ CLOSED FOR GOOD crew at the garden.
We managed to clear all the rest of the jasmine and load all the pile of garden waste off the site, filling the 10 cm bin (almost all jasmine root) and paint the fence. Lesson learnt here for home gardeners, jasmine is very invasive.
The day was fine, BNZ team were lovely, we had no accidents and we even finished early. Everything ran like clockwork thanks to our incredibly fantastic team of Wilton Street gardeners who worked so hard to make the day a success – especially Jacqui for juggling childcare and taking care of the fantastic catering, Margo who took the day off work, Sarah for getting the paint donated from Ponsonby Resenes and overseeing the painting.
Thanks also to all those who contributed lovely baking and the people who dropped by during the day to see how it was all going and have a cuppa. Thanks to GL2030 for the bin.
If you are up at the Farmers Market this Sunday, do come over and see us. We are just behind the Gypsy Tea Room and we will be there on Sunday morning.
Mandy
Waste Away Group
Auckland Freecycle
Do you know about Freecycle? In Auckland there are now 1120 members and we are wishing to grow further.
Can you get involved to keep good things out of landfills and helping out our community in keeping New Zealand clean and green. So when you have something that is too much hassle to sell, you don’t want to see destroyed by the scrap metalers in the inorganic and you have nobody to give it to. Freecyle is the thing.
Once you join, please tell your friends, boss, co-workers, family, neighbours about this way of parting with usable items so that somebody else can use them.
If you got only one person to join it would make a huge difference in expanding our purpose and making our community a cleaner place to live.
http://groups.freecycle.org/aucklandfreecycle
Grey Lynn Farmers Market
Nothing much to eat in the house? Never fear, the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market is here to entertain you this Sunday morning, plus provide you with all the fresh produce you will need for a delic\ous Sunday lunch and see you through the week to come.
Every Sunday but the last of the month the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market stallholders are serving you with a smile and story of their local produce. From meat and fish, to nuts and honey, to the freshest vegetables of all varieties, it’s all there. And to mark the beginning of summer, fresh strawberries will be available at the market this weekend.
If you have a surplus of fresh produce or seedling, remember you can bring it along to sell or barter at the Ooooby stall. It’s a real help if you can bag it up in saleable units before you arrive and pop your name and a price on the bags.
Save the date: the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market is hosting a Twilight Market on the last Saturday before Christmas, 19th December from 6pm to 9pm, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn.
We look forward to seeing you all at the market tomorrow.
From the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market Committee
Grey Lynn Festival
Do you love living in Grey Lynn?… Grey Lynn Park Festival needs local volunteers for the information tent and other areas of the festival
The festival is on Saturday 28 November at Grey Lynn Park..The festival has changed over recent years. It got very big and now the aim is to bring it back to our community. If you have been scared off by the crowds in the past it is quite different now. Note the lack of big name bands and big publicity. For those of you who have been in the neighbourhood a while it is a great chance to catch up with old friends.
There are the usual smorgasboard of stalls and activities going on through the day, there will be a surprise around every corner! Grey Lynn 2030 will be there in the community space with the community gardens, the Farmers Market and other local groups.
Visit the KidZone on the top field
If your child would like to have a children’s stall, we will have a free marketplace area especially set up from 10 -12 for traders under 13 please register beforehand!
And also we have a scarecrow competition, create a scarecrow, bring it to the Childrens Area Coordinator, Monique who will be in the ASB tent and then they will be judged and announced on the Whanau stage at 1pm
Just like the Farmers Market, it is good if you can bring cash and leave your car at home.
Please come on down and celebrate the 25th gathering of our Festival
For any queries please either email Angela at greylynnparkfestival@gmail.com or call me on 027 202 9609
Auckland Energy Consumer Trust election campaign
Unfortunately Pippa didn’t make it to be on the AECT. The Citizens and Ratepayers group were the winners. Well done to Pippa for giving it a go.
What a lot we have learned! Thanks to those who voted and helped. Here is Pippa’s update.
www.pippacoom.co.nz
Other Local Events and Groups
New Zealand Youth Delegation
The New Zealand Youth Delegation are 12 passionate young Kiwis, working to ensure our climate policies look after the planet and people for generations to come. We’re heading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference this December, in Copenhagen, Denmark. . .
Join NZYD for an evening of fun!
Charity auction.. Fun and celebrations.. Drinks & nibbles.. Live entertainment!..
All funds raised.. Helping us get to Copenhagen.
Thursday 19 November. 6pm.
Freemans Bay Community Hall, Auckland.
Please R.S.V.P. to nzyd2009@gmail.com
NZYD is a charities registered organisation, under the umbrella of 350 Aotearoa.
Suggested koha is $5 – $10 per person. For auction items we will gladly accept cash, cheque, and direct credit.
Fly My Pretties Competition
I work for Ecostore and couldn’t resist sharing this with you as unless you are on the ecostore mailing list you wouldn’t know about the Fly My Pretties tickets competition. (If you say Who? this is not for you) Ecostore are sponsoring the Wellington based Fly My Pretties musicians in their upcoming “Encore” shows in Auckland (Dec 4th) and Wellington (Dec 5th). The Encore Show features work from their beautiful new album ‘A Story’. There are 2 tickets for each show to give away. If you want to enter the competition, please click to enter.
City Vision Special General Meeting
When: Wednesday, 11 November, 7.30pm
Where: Auckland Horticultural Society Hall, 990 Gt North Rd, Western Springs (opp Motion Rd)
City Vision (the Green Party, Labour, Alliance and like-minded community independents) is the campaigning organisation for the broad left in the local body elections in the (existing) Auckland City. For information on our principles and policy see cityvision.org.nz.
You are warmly invited to this Special General Meeting. There will be reports on current issues, including the all-important regional re-organisation, and our progress in developing an organisation to fight the supercity elections in October 2010.
To facilitate the development of a campaigning organisation for the new Auckland Council in 2010, the City Vision Steering Committee recommends we establish a Campaign Committee to structure ways of working with other like-minded political and community groups across the region. We hereby call for nominations for the City Vision Campaign Committee for 2010. If you are interested or for more information, please contact Gwen Shaw, Deputy Chair, on gwenshaw@xnet.co.nz, 378 2188.
Grey Lynn Community Centre
The GLCC are looking for a new board member. Our Grey Lynn community Centre is a beautiful local asset. We have a small management committee who meet once a month. If you are interested in this please contact me suzanne.kendrick@gmail.com We would particularly like a younger person. Young to us means somebody in their twenties! We would like to see the centre used more on Friday and Saturday nights so if somebody has a good idea for a regular event please get involved.
Will need to get in touch this week so you will be ready for AGM on Thursday 19th November. All welcome to the AGM.
Pt Chev School Fundraiser – 6th November
Pt Chev Primary would love to see you and your friends at this fun night out in support of our school.
This is the major fundraiser for the year and is to raise funds for a new junior playground.
You need to get a ticket which includes:
A free Indulge embossed wine glass and carrier.
Access to the food market for free sampling and drinking.
Entry to the auditorium to watch four professional culinary and wine demonstrations.
The opportunity to buy some of the best food and wine NZ has to offer at reasonable prices.
Live music.
A fun night out with others from our community.
The chance to win a series of food spot prizes
Please go to www.indulgefoodfestival.co.nz or email indulgeptchev@xtra.co.nz
Pt Chev Transition Town Meeting
Next meeting is Tuesday, November 9 – Resource Room, Pt Chevalier Primary School, Te Ra Rd.
Don’t forget to bring something along to swap or give for market place if you can – not to worry if you can’t!
PT. CHEV TREASURE HUNT
A fun, free event for the whole family and neighbourhood
Sunday, November 8th , 1 – 4 pm, All over Pt. Chevalier
1 pm start at Pt. Chevalier Library – Finish at Coyle Park
Bring your family, friends and lively spirits and travel around Pt. Chevalier collecting clues that piece together an understanding of the suburbs amazing history and natural beauty.
You can choose a leisurely walk to find clues and surprises, go hard out on your bicycle or scooter to cover the distance, or just sit back amongst the hustle and bustle. There will be something for everyone to participate in and enjoy!
Bicycles (singles and tandems) can be rented on the day from Adventure Cycles in Pt. Chevalier. For more info contact them directly or adventurecycles@woosh.co.nz
New Farmers Market – Royal Oak Market – opens 22 November(14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak). As a Transition Town group we support local initiatives. We are very pleased to see a new market has sprung up. We hope the locals will get behind this market and be able to walk or cycle there.. The market is being hosted by CCS Disability Action, a not for profit organisation that supports people with disabilities. Over 40 stall holders will be selling a variety of artisan foods and products – french pastries, olive oil, cheese, honey, fresh fish, fruit and veges, artwork, jewellery, ceramics, kids clothing and gifts.
Do we have any Food Co-ops in Grey Lynn?
If anybody knows of any Grey Lynn food co-ops could they contact Joel Hildebrandtjoel@earthsong.org.nz at Earthsong, so we can share information and cooperate between cooperatives.
Calendar of Upcoming Local Events
November
6 – 10th Richmond Rd School – Art with Love Public Art Auction
Sun 8th Grey Lynn Farmers Market
Sun 8th- Pt Chevalier Treasure Hun
Tue 10th – Pt Chev Transition Town Meeting
Wed 11th Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly Meeting
Sat 28th – Grey Lynn Festival 10 – 6
December
Not at all local but would looks good…
16th December Climate Camp – http://www.climatecamp.org.nz/
19th Grey Lynn Farmers Market Twilight Market
Have a great weekend. Also am trying out some new email software www.mailchimp.com
Can you let me know if the formatting is OK at your end?Thanks
Suzanne Kendrick
Grey Lynn 2030 Steering Committee
www.greylynn2030.co.nz
www.Twitter.com/greylynn2030
www.facebook.com/GreyLynn2030
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
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Moa’s Ark Revisited – Hear David Bellamy
Moa’s Ark Revisited: What we can do to switch the world back into more biodiverse and hence more sustainable working order?
David Bellamy has done heaps to promote the taonga (treasure) of our homeland Aotearoa NZ, so it is with great aroha and our deepest respect that we welcome this tall totara back on his “Moa’s Ark Revisited” tour during September 2009.
If anyone does not know what we mean by this, then get your friends and family together, turn off the TV station and instead view the four 50 minute episodes of his “Moa’s Ark” downloadable video.
Thanks to DOC and Air New Zealand for getting David back for the Whirinaki 25 celebrations. David was a key influencer in the revolt against state milling of the spectacular Whirinaki Rainforest. It remains today as one of his favourite places on our planet.
Read what he says in Seven Decades of Destruction – the value of old growth forest: balancing the cycles of our Living World.
We expect this will be a “report card” on how well we are treasuring and safeguarding our place, culture, and values.
David is always challenging. He loves working with young people (see Some Things Must Change video), making nature fun, helping us face the issues and take positive action.
8 September 2009
7pm – 9pm
Venue: Room OGGB4, Owen G. Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road
Contact: RSVP to contact@nexusnz.org
A Public Forum featuring David Bellamy and youth panel
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Major Global Warming-Related Events Planned for October 24, 2009
http://www.350.org/invitation
Dear World,
This is an invitation to help build a movement–to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis.
On Saturday October 24, we will stand together as one planet and call for a fair global climate treaty. United by a common call to action, we’ll make it clear: the world needs an international plan that meets the latest science and gets us back to safety.
This movement has just begun, and it needs your help.
Here’s the plan: we’re asking you, and people in every country on earth, to organize an action in their community on October 24. There are no limits here–imagine bike rides, rallies, concerts, hikes, festivals, tree-plantings, protests, and more. Imagine your action linking up with thousands of others around the globe. Imagine the world waking up.
If we can pull it off, we’ll send a powerful message on October 24: the world needs the climate solutions that science and justice demand.
It’s often said that the only thing preventing us from tackling the climate crisis quickly and equitably is a lack of political will. Well, the only thing that can create that political will is a unified global movement–and no one is going to build that movement for us. It’s up to regular people all over the world. That’s you.
So register an event in your community for October 24, and then enlist the help of your friends. Get together with your co-workers or your local environmental group or human rights campaign, your church or synagogue or mosque or temple; enlist bike riders and local farmers and young people. All over the planet we’ll start to organize ourselves.
With your help, there will be an event at every iconic place on the planet on October 24-from America’s Great Lakes to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef–and also in all the places that matter to you in your daily lives: a beach or park or village green or town hall.
If there was ever a time for you to get involved, it’s right now. There are two reasons this year is so crucial.
The first reason is that the science of climate change is getting darker by the day. The Arctic is melting away with astonishing speed, decades ahead of schedule. Everything on the planet seems to be melting or burning, rising or parched.
And we now have a number to express our peril: 350.
NASA’s James Hansen and a team of other scientists recently published a series of papers showing that we need to cut the amount of carbon in the atmosphere from its current 387 parts per million to 350 or less if we wish to “maintain a planet similar to that on which civilization developed.”
No one knew that number a year ago-but now it’s clear that 350 might well be the most important number for the future of the planet, a north star to guide our efforts as we remake the world. If we can swiftly get the planet on track to get to 350, we can still avert the worst effects of climate change.
The second reason 2009 is so important is that the political opportunity to influence our governments has never been greater. The world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen this December to craft a new global treaty on cutting carbon emissions.
If that meeting were held now, it would produce a treaty that would be woefully inadequate. In fact, it would lock us into a future where we’d never get back to 350 parts per million-where the rise of the sea would accelerate, where rainfall patterns would start to shift and deserts to grow. A future where first the poorest people, and then all of us, and then all the people that come after us, would find the only planet we have damaged and degraded.
October 24 comes six weeks before those crucial UN meetings in Copenhagen. If we all do our job, every nation will know the question they’ll be asked when they put forth a plan: will this get the planet back on the path to 350?
This will only work with the help of a global movement-and it’s starting to bubble up everywhere. Farmers in Cameroon, students in China, even World Cup skiers have already helped spread the word about 350. Churches have rung their bells 350 times; Buddhist monks have formed a huge 350 with their bodies against the backdrop of Himalayas. 350 translates across every boundary of language and culture. It’s clear and direct, cutting through the static and it lays down a firm scientific line.
On October 24, we’ll all stand behind 350–a universal symbol of climate safety and of the world we need to create. And at the end of the day, we’ll all upload photos from our events to the www.350.org website and send these pictures around the world. This cascade of images will drive climate change into the public debate–and hold our leaders accountable to a unified global citizenry.
We need your help-the world is a big place and our team is small. Our crew at 350.org will do everything we can to support you, providing templates for banners and press releases, resources to spread the word, and tools to help you build a strong local climate action group. And our core team is always just a phone call or e-mail away if you need some support.
This is like a final exam for human beings. Can we muster the courage, the commitment, and the creativity to set this earth on a steady course before it’s too late? October 24 will be the joyful, powerful day when we prove it’s possible.
Please join us and register your local event today. Click to both –
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/602/t/4180/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=50242
[Please forward this message to your friends and co-workers.]
Onwards,
Bill McKibben – Author and Activist- USA
Vandana Shiva – Physicist, Activist, Author – India
David Suzuki - Scientist, Author, Activist – Canada
Bianca Jagger – Chair of the World Future Council – UK
Tim Flannery – Scientist, Author, Explorer -Australia
Bittu Sahgal - Editor of Sanctuary magazine - India
Andrew Simmons – Environmental Advocate, St. Vincent & The Grenadines
Bill McKibben – Author and Activist- USA
Vandana Shiva – Physicist, Activist, Author – India
David Suzuki - Scientist, Author, Activist – Canada
Bianca Jagger – Chair of the World Future Council – UK
Tim Flannery – Scientist, Author, Explorer -Australia
Bittu Sahgal - Editor of Sanctuary magazine - India
Andrew Simmons – Environmental Advocate, St. Vincent & The Grenadines
Christine Loh – Environmental Advocate and Legislator – Hong Kong
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Climate Change Public Meetings organised at very short notice
From 6 to 17 July, the government will consult the public and businesses on an appropriate 2020 target on greenhouse gas emissions.
The govt is clearly trying to push something through without the public being given time to arrange appropriate representation at meetings.
Aucklanders, we are required on Tues July 7th at the Princes Ballroom, Hotel Hyatt Regency, at 7.30 – 9pm
Registration is required; see below.
For other centres please see the chart below.
What ever your views on climate change are, I am sure you will see that it is totally inappropriate for the govt to be trying to sneak these meetings through, yet again pushing the boundaries of democracy.
Blessings
Lisa Er
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Dear Lisa
Here is today’s press release from NZ Climate Action Partnership (NZCAP) newly formed on 5th June following a Hui organised by the Hikurangi Trust in Wellington.
The main message is that the government has left an extremely short (5 working days) time between announcing and starting the public consultations on what NZ’s interim target should be in preparation for Copenhagen. The public should smell a rat. We need to get organised very fast.
It is extremely important that well informed and articulate citizens turn up in large numbers at the public meetings with the most recent science (March Copenhagen meeting of scientists and their summary report) and economic analysis (such as the Stern Report, Sinclair Knight & Mertz report for the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development etc) ready to make a strong community voice heard.
ALSO : It is most important that people realize the need to register as stakeholders to avoid government gate keeping on this issue.
Registered stakeholders will receive an email containing further information related to the roadshow, as well as instructions to RSVP online.
The person to contact regarding registration is Anna Carter [Anna.Carter@mfe.govt.nz] Ph 04 439 7487
The Government press release is at : http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/public+consultation+2020+target+announced
The public meetings, which will feature presentations by the Government, will be held in nine centres between 6 July and 17 July: Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Napier and Nelson. Dr Smith will also hold meetings with business groups in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Hui are being organised in association with the Climate Change Iwi Leadership Group.
For Press Release please visit here
Age of Stupid movie is getting closer
I have been following with interest, the self distribution of what looks to be an amazing film. It looks like it is not too far now from arriving in New Zealand.
Here is a review of it.
‘The Age of Stupid’ featuring Hollywood star Pete Postlethwaite.The movie set a new world record for the largest simultaneous première when it was shown in 65 different locations across Britain in March.
Environmental campaigner Mr Hampton was one of a number of sponsors for the flick which delivers a stark warning about the planet’s future.
He believes the message of the film is crucial and will enlighten people as to how close the planet is to a climate catastrophe.
A eco-conference for world leaders will be held later this year in Copenhagen.
Mr Hampton said: “If leaders don’t come away from Copenhagen with a strict agreement then we have pretty much signed a death warrant for our kids.
“The current consensus is that governments our way behind something which will lead to our survival.”
Prince Charles recently told business leaders in a keynote speech in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that there is “less than 100 months” to save the planet.
The heir to the throne warned that if nations fail to tackle deforestation and other problems over the next eight years then irreversible harm will be done to the environment.
Mr Hampton said: “If we don’t achieve substantial carbon reduction in thattime it will set up a chain reaction.”
Here’s a note from the director. Franny Armstrong
Remember the UK People’s Premiere, which took us four months to set up and had more than 1000 people working on it?
Well, now we’re doing the same thing for
the Global Premiere on Sep 21/22,
but in all these countries at the same time, oh lordy: America, Antarctica, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece (unlikely), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxemburg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania (TBC), Serbia (TBC), Slovakia (TBC), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Costa Rica (TBC), ElSalvador (TBC), Guatamala (TBC), Mexico, Panama (TBC), Argentina, Brazil, Chile (TBC), Columbia (TBC), Ecuador (TBC), Peru (TBC), Venezuela (TBC), China (TBC), Hong Kong (TBC), India (probably), Indonesia (TBC), Japan (probably not cos of conflicting distribution deal), Russia, S Korea (TBC), Turkey (TBC), Israel and South Africa.
And all the countries which don’t have satellite cinemas – all the poor ones, basically – will be able to watch the film + live event for free on the internet just for that one day.
All of which means that, if we pull it off, it will be the biggest simultaneous (ish) film event in movie history, beating some little flick called Star Wars.
This is extremely frightening.
But not as frightening as the latest predictions for the humanitarian catastrophe we’re going to trigger if we continue to not get our collective act together…. so may as well give it a go, what’s the worst that can happen? Complete flop, total embarrassment and lose a tonne of cash? Ah well.
Nevette our indefatigable New York event coordinator has managed to book a corner of Central Park for our solar cinema tent, though we haven’t quite raised the cash to pay for it yet – I’m sure you’re all looking forward to the fundraising request you can feel is coming your way….
There’s been a lot of laughing going on here at Stupid Towers as we write emails starting ”Dear Brad”, ”Dear Barack”, “Dear Oprah” and “Dear Kofi”. We kid you not. Best not to think too hard about any of it, or you realise how ludicrous the whole thing is.
Australia & New Zealand are not on the Global Premiere list, not because we’re ignoring them, but because they are having their very own special premiere in Cate Blanchett’s eco theatre in Sydney on the 18th or 19th of Australia, depending on which day works best for the Australian eco-celebs. The good news is that Pete Postlethwaite is almost definitely able to make it, and as he is a big cheese in – and I’ve also sat on a few primetime Aussie chatshow sofas, thanks to McLibel being a big hit out there – we should be able to make a huge impact. Hence the decision to burn the fuel to fly there. (Please send any “you’re destroying all your own hard work” emails to abuse@ageofstupid.net). The Sydney premiere will be linked to our zero-waste tent in Auckland, New Zealand, which is being jointly organised by Oxfam and Greenpeace.
Australia’s biggest cinema chain, Hoyts, have just signed up and are now busy attempting to get 70 cinemas across Australia and 10 across New Zealand to take the show.
If you are an NGO in Australia or NZ who would like to get involved, please contact josh.wyndham.kidd@youthclimatecoalition.org and press/journalists please contact Annette Smith: nedco@bigpond.net.au
Well, now we’re doing the same thing for the Global Premiere on Sep 21/22, but in all these countries at the same time, oh lordy: America, Antarctica, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece (unlikely), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxemburg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania (TBC), Serbia (TBC), Slovakia (TBC), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Costa Rica (TBC), El Salvador (TBC), Guatamala (TBC), Mexico, Panama (TBC), Argentina, Brazil, Chile (TBC), Columbia (TBC), Ecuador (TBC), Peru (TBC), Venezuela (TBC), China (TBC), Hong Kong (TBC), India (probably), Indonesia (TBC), Japan (probably not cos of conflicting distribution deal), Russia, S Korea (TBC), Turkey (TBC), Israel and South Africa.
And all the countries which don’t have satellite cinemas – all the poor ones, basically – will be able to watch the film + live event for free on the internet just for that one day.
All of which means that, if we pull it off, it will be the biggest simultaneous (ish) film event in movie history, beating some little flick called Star Wars.
This is extremely frightening.
But not as frightening as the latest predictions for the humanitarian catastrophe we’re going to trigger if we continue to not get our collective act together…. so may as well give it a go, what’s the worst that can happen? Complete flop, total embarrassment and lose a tonne of cash? Ah well.
Nevette our indefatigable New York event coordinator has managed to book a corner of Central Park for our solar cinema tent, though we haven’t quite raised the cash to pay for it yet – I’m sure you’re all looking forward to the fundraising request you can feel is coming your way….
There’s been a lot of laughing going on here at Stupid Towers as we write emails starting ”Dear Brad”, ”Dear Barack”, “Dear Oprah” and “Dear Kofi”. We kid you not. Best not to think too hard about any of it, or you realise how ludicrous the whole thing is.
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