Hi Renee, Thanks - it's great when things turn out well. I think the sun played a part in bringing people along as well...
Actually, we had a visit from one of your De Geuzen crew, Femke Snelting... marc > Hi Marc, > > Congrats on the successful opening! I wish I could have been there. > > xx Renee > On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:06 PM, marc garrett wrote: > >> RE: Feral Trade Café Opening. >> >> A warm thank you from the Furtherfield/HTTP Gallery crew and Kate >> Rich, >> to all those who managed to make it to the Feral Trade Café Opening >> this >> Saturday. The official time was for 4 - 7pm, but it got so busy with a >> constant influx of people that it went on until 8pm. We had over 80 >> visitors through the afternoon till early evening, the setting was >> convivial and the sun was shining. >> >> For those who are still interested in visiting it will be open until >> 2nd >> Aug - Fri, Sat & Sun, 12 - 5pm. >> >> -----------------------------> >> >> An art exhibition that is also a working café, Feral Trade Café >> opens at >> HTTP Gallery for 8 weeks during Summer 2009. Serving food and drink >> traded over social networks, Feral Trade Café by artist Kate Rich (AU) >> provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes >> to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for >> food >> delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up. >> >> The term 'feral' denotes the project's wilful wildness (as in pigeons) >> as opposed to romantic or nature-wildness (wolves): it offers >> street-wise survival tactics for urban environments. Since the first >> registered Feral Trade import of 30kg of coffee direct from the >> growers >> in El Salvador to the Cube Microplex in Bristol in 2003, Kate Rich has >> used social networks to traffic edible produce from around the world. >> Feral Trade participants become mules, carrying food items with them >> on >> trips they would have taken anyway and delivering them to depots >> (usually friends’ and colleagues’ flats or workplaces) in the growing >> network. >> >> more info about the show & how to get there: >> http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
