CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! BLANK NOISE CITY MEET UP


SMS YOURSELF. WRITE IT ON YOUR HAND. TELL YOUR NEIGHBOURS TO REMIND YOU. TATOO YOUR FORE HEAD.

 If you miss it, you’ve messed it. Your presence will matter.


Meet up in your city over a beer, chai or chewing gum, or marie biscuits, by the 15th of April.




Bangalore :

Sunday: 14th May. We are meeting at the Blank Noise studio. time 4 pm.
Pls contact Blank Noise at 98868 40612

Friday the 5th of May :Blank Noise Bangalore meets on Friday the 5th of May at 6 pm to plan a street intervention scheduled for the following Sunday. This event will also work with texts from the blogathon.

You are invited to attend and participate in this event. Your participation will strengthen the impact of what we want to say, and how we can say it.

Another part of the meeting will discuss and distribute campaign material for clothes project DID YOU ASK FOR IT .

Email: blurtblanknoise@gmail.com or phone me at 98868 4061


Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: Malleswaram


Mumbai :

-Tuesday - April 25 - Mumbai Meet

We will meet next on Tuesday, April 25, at 7 pm at Prithvi Cafe in Juhu. For details, please email chininath@rediffmail.com

Venue: Carter Road - Opposite Cafe Coffee Day
Time: 6.30 pm

It's the first intervention in Mumbai. So please be there to participate, to observe, to get informed and to spread the word.

Any details needed? Mail me - chininath@rediffmail.com

-Mumbai Intervention - Saturday, April 22

Venue: Carter Road - Opposite Cafe Coffee Day
Time: 6.30 pm

It's the first intervention in Mumbai. So please be there to participate, to observe, to get informed and to spread the word.

Any details needed? Mail me - chininath@rediffmail.com


-Sunday the 9th of April.
Time: 5 pm
Venue: Bandra, 'Just Around the Corner'.




Delhi:

Saturday May 13th

Time: 5 30 pm

Venue: Connaught Place, Regal Cinema

please email blurtblanknoise@gmail.com, subject titled delhi meet to confirm your attendance.


Sunday 9th April
Time :5 pm
Venue: India Habitat Centre Amphitheatre




Chennai: Friday April 14th
Time: 7 pm
Venue: at the Woodland Cafe at Narda
Gana Sabha



Hyderabad: Tuesday 11 April

Time : 8:00 PM
Venue : Barista, Jubilee Hills



IN YOUR CITY:

Individuals from various cities such as Chandigarh, Lucknow, Guwhati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Tokyo, Chicago, San Francisco , New York etc have written in and expressed that they would like to initiate it in their cities.

Cheers to Chennai and Hyderabad for the largest response! Looks like we already have an offline group! Likewise volunteers from different cities will be announcing the meet up on this post.

If you would like to initiate the project in your city and feel as though you don’t really have the ‘group’ to call for a meeting, all you need is yourself and 3 more people you think might want to work this out, a date, time and location, we will announce it for you! We would like the first meet up to happen by the 15th of April.





Some FAQS for the meet up:




Why are we meeting?



Because various individuals have mailed in saying that they would like to initiate the project and address eve teasing in their cities.,




Who are we meeting?



We are meeting other bloggers, individuals who have written to the Blank Noise Project and proposed to address eve teasing through their various skill sets.




What is the aim of the meeting?



  • For the individuals to meet.
  • To initiate dialogue about the issue in their context.
  • To brainstorm and propose locales for performance interventions.
  • To brainstorm and propose locales for the opinion polls.
  • To take responsibility of the clothes project, ‘did you ask for it’ in your city and collect clothes.
  • To come up with new ideas and strategies.


The meetings will be documented with photographs and sound or video. The meet ups will be reported on the Blank Noise Blog regularly. For any further questions email us with your subject as your city's name and we will get back to you shortly.

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