Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Day 6 - Kulturhus, National Radio and Pedersgata.




Last minute permission was received from the Kulturhus to place 'Jim' in the foyer in a space between the cinema, a sweet shop, the childrens museum and the library. This was great because Torunn had just received a call from Norwegian National radio to do a piece on PEDALPOWER for BYBRUA.
After we arrived at the Kulturhus interaction was slow as we struggled to work out a strategy for approaching people in this busy situation. However, as soon as we had our first participant a healthy queue formed for the best part of 2hrs. Nationalities ranged from Norwegian, British, German and French. Apparently the radio programme (which was recorded today but goes out tomorrow) will reach 1 Million people! Listen in between 9-11am.
In the afernoon we moved into Pedersgata, one of the streets that connects Rogalandkunstsenter to the bridge site. It was pretty busy by 4pm and for two hours we had a steady stream of volunteers. The image you can see here is of the generator in a sheltered shopfront space. I was standing with my back to the 'love shop'. The weather was awful today but we still got loads of energy and met some great people. Thanks to everyone who made the effort today!

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