Saturday, April 3, 2010

International Pillow Fight Day
ALL AROUND THE WORLD!


Today, Saturday April 3rd 2010, there will be massive pillow fights in cities around the world! Use this site to locate the nearest one to you. If you would like to learn how to organize a pillow fight, read the howto guide. Check out the list of cities that participated in 2008 and 2009.
About The Urban Playground Movement
All over the world, groups like us organize free, fun, all ages, non-commercial public events. From a massive Mobile Clubbing event in a London train station to a giant pillow fight near the Eiffel Tower in Paris to a subway party beneath the streets of Toronto, it is clear that the urban playground is growing around the world, leaving more public and more social cities in its wake. This is the urban playground movement, a playful part of the larger public space movement.

One of our goals is to make these unique happenings in public space become a significant part of popular culture, partially replacing passive, non-social, branded consumption experiences like watching television, and consciously rejecting the blight on our cities caused by the endless creep of advertising into public space. The result, we hope, will be a global community of participants, not consumers, in a world where people are constantly organizing and attending these happenings in every major city in the world.

This project, Pillow Fight Day 2010, is a collaboration of many people who comprise a loose, decentralized network of urban playground event organizers all over the world.
Here's some YouTube video from years past in my neighborhood:





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