Concerned about dependence on oil? Traffic driving you nuts? Craving grass between your toes?
Join a flash mob of barefoot performers and pedestrians on Saturday, August 22nd at 1 pm in Seattle’s Seward Park for Barefoot in the Park, part of the aLIVe celebration. This is a performance and participatory walk, open to all ages, devised by choreographer Alex Martin. Kick off your shoes and experience first-hand the joy of barefoot walking and help us promote the bare foot, our most radical low impact vehicle!
Barefoot in the Park begins with a manifesto: The ultimate low impact vehicle is the human foot, perfected through a million-year design process to carry the human body across the surface of the earth at slow speeds perfectly calibrated for work, play, conversation, and the enjoyment of life.
Barefoot in the Park goes one step further, to explore a radical and happily ridiculous proposal: the surfaces of our city should be re-designed to provide, along every major thoroughfare, a Barefoot Walking Lane of soft native ground covers adjacent to the traditional impervious sidewalks, curbs, and bicycle lanes of the future.
How to participate:
1. Email Alex Martin to tell her you are coming to the Saturday, August 22, 2009 – 1:00 p.m. performance. Also, consider attending a rehersal at the event location on Friday, August 21, 2009 from 3 pm to 3:30 pm. Rehearsal will be FUN. Alex will bring snacks.
2. On August 22nd meet up at the flash mob location . . . arrive before 1 pm so you don’t miss out! You’ll be finished by 1:15 pm. Start walking when you hear the bell.
Kick off your shoes and join in!
