Exciting times! The Wave, the UK’s biggest Climate Change demonstration ever, is just 8 days away!
Next Saturday tens of thousands of like-minded, life-saving folk will take part in The Wave and if you are reading this, liklihood is you are too! (If not quick march to the booking pages!)
It’s not to late though to amplify and add to the value of the Wave. There’s lots you can still do:
1) Find your glad rags: the theme for The Wave is blue- so now is your opportunity to hop along to one of our fabulous Oxfam Shops and go wild buying fun, glamourous and blue clothing! We want to see blue ball gowns, blue aprons, blue fairy outfits, blue hats, blue jackets, blue cravattes- anything that’s eye catchingly and explodes with blue frivolity.
2) Get decorating: of course there will be dozens of NGOs handing out their placards, offering you the chance to get their specific climate problem/ solution into the crowd and onto the front pages. But we are a jolly coalition of millions of people and while the unity that our mission to achieve a fair, safe and honest deal is our core strength we also celebrate our diversity. So why not make your own banner? Tell the world why you are there- and do it with a sheet, some paint and whatever other decoration you can find! To make a banner:
- Go to an Oxfam Shop and buy an old bed sheet- choose a fun colour or get white. (It’s best by far to get a non elasticated sheet.)
- Get some paint- I’ve used odds and ends from DIY stores, left over paint from painting my bedroom, and proper crafty acrylic paints which you can get in most good stationary shops for a couple of quid.
- Get other materials and glitter - lace, velvet, glitter, tinsel and baubbles are all ideal!
- Get a couple of light poles or bamboo sticks. (Check the shed if you have one- sheds always seem to have bamboo sticks.)
- Get cracking - lay out your sheet (put newspaper below it!) and with a pencil draw on the message that you want to get across. ‘Get a Climate Deal’, ‘Climate Change Kills’, that sort of thing. Check the spelling!
- Then paint the letters in fill them up with paint and decoration and glee.
- Wait for the banner to dry (i’d usually give it overnight) and then all you have to do is attach the corners to the bamboo sticks with some gaffa tape/ string. Ace.
Don’t forget as well as making yourselves look pretty and fun for the Wave there is still time to arrange transport to The Wave. Once the Oxfam/Coop coaches are booked there will still be public trains, buses and some crazy folk are cycling! (cite our Student Activism Intern Charli)
Tags: climate change, Craft, thewave
