How shall we celebrate?
It strikes me that this blog post is a cry for help. Professional help.
Over the years, I have done some very silly things...in the name of toilet advocacy with mixed success. Most of my efforts have involved attention seeking behaviour.
The ad went on display at an amateur rowing crew at a corporate rowing regatta. On this occasion I got to meet the Lord Mayor and the lovely Lord Mayoress. I am trying to recall why I was dressed as a Red Moose. Something to do with the name of the rowing crew.
The 2008 toilet team organised a 100 toilet art exhibition featuring Bob McMullen. The original idea was to decorate the old, high flush volume toilets being torn out all over the city, during an unprecedented 7 year drought.
Somehow, along the way Caroma gave us 100 brand new toilets. We recruited various artisans and designers from around Brisbane to decorated the toilets. Councilor David Hinchliffe painted a lovely willow pattern on his toilet. I remember vaguely collecting a lot of toilets on my bicycle and spending $2.5k on freight. One of us (who shall remain nameless) completely failed to organise an online auction and the toilets sat for a few months in Sof's garage.
In 2009, I celebrated World Toilet Day in solitude, fasting, praying in King George Square, whilst contemplating the climate negotiations that were happening at COP15 in Copenhagen.
In 2010, we organised a "Where would you hide?" for World Toilet Day. Followed by a QnA forum on "sanitation", with mixed success.
More recently, I accepted @GirlClumsy's offer to pay my flood levee for me.
For the few people who may not know, GirlClumsy is a professional Journalist. Writer. Traveller. Improviser. Actor. Reviewer. Incredible klutz.
Perhaps she can provide some professionalism or some pole dancing talent.
Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteIdeally what you want is something that doesn't cost a lot to do, but it reasonably effective.
I was thinking about having empty blow-up kiddie pools, but unless you can source a few of those from people, it could end up being expensive, potentially ruining the point of the exercise.
Maybe getting people to come along with empty plastic water bottles- eg, the Mt Franklin kind that people carry with them. Maybe form a little mountain of them or something, to indicate the water that an average third-world village needs, or something.
I'll turn my mind to it, see if I can generate some other ideas.