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- Get ready to re-interpret Christmas
- Bring along Bring one thing with you. Something you love, something you hate, something you want to get rid of. Something you’ve made, something you found, something you think someone else could use. Something beautiful, something naff, something you can hold in your hand, something tuneful. Something stolen, something delicious, something intoxicating. The only restriction is, you can’t buy it for the purpose. (Think micro-scale Burning Man inside the M25)
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At the stroke of 8pm, we will transform a bare empty space into the crowd-sourced Christmas of our dreams.
For two and a half hours we will enjoy the festive pot-luck of our combined contributions, and have fun with whatever our alternative Christmas party looks like.
There’ll be food, drink and copies of the December-January issue of the zine, Re:Interpret. The rest is up to you. Prepare for something between Stig of the Dump and a Royale Family Christmas Special.
Now that Christmas has firmly shed its once popular religious connotations and is located in the realm of secular collective consumption, we feel it is not too blasphemous to ask: How would we reinvent Christmas? Keeping the heart warming, toe-tingling bits – like having all your friends and family around, novelty, festive childlike expectation – and getting rid of the crappy, bloated, earth destroying bits – namely buying lots of things and then throwing most of them in the bin. We warmly invite you to join us on the 12th December as get together to imagine a new type of Christmas: think of it as a magazine launch, a party, an experiment. Suspend your disbelief, and hang paper chains in its place.
Bring one thing with you. Something you love, something you hate, something you want to get rid of. Something you’ve made, something you found, something you think someone else could use. Something beautiful, something naff, something you can hold in your hand, something tuneful. Something stolen, something delicious, something intoxicating. The only restriction is, you can’t buy it for the purpose. (Think micro-scale Burning Man inside the M25)
Then, at the stroke of 8pm, we will transform a bare empty space into the crowd-sourced Christmas of our dreams.
Finally, just as we all will create our Christmassy commons, we will all take a piece of it with us, leaving nothing for landfill nor the cleaners the next morning. As you pirouette back out into the dark streets, having discovered that there is such thing as a free lunch, you’ll have gained something new, perhaps shiny, perhaps filling. Not through the market but through exchange. So, in summary, to play Alternative Christmas Party the rules are simple: bring one thing and take one thing away with you. Who knows what you’ll leave with? Join us as we show that another world is possible, at least for one night. All are welcome.