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World Pillow Fight Day


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Urban Playgrounds in 30 Cities - World Pillow Fight Day (VIDEO)
World Pillow Fight Day
Published: Mar 24, 08
Comments: 1
Views: 2,146

World Pillow Fight Day took place in cities around the world Saturday 22 March, 2008.  The picture and video show thousands of people battling it out in New York’s Union Square.

The idea started with Lori Kufner and Kevin Bracken, who have organized pillow fights and subway parties in Toronto and New York. But now it has gone global as the ‘urban playground movement.’ This year massive pillow fights were organized in 30 cities around the world, from Atlanta to Zurich.

Here are some more public pillow fights…

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Pillow Fight Clubs - Now in Buenos Aires (VIDEO)

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The goal of the Urban Playground Movement: "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. (pillowfightday)

References:  pillowfightday, treehugger

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FOUR WAYS TO REACT: vote, favorite, add more examples of Urban Playgrounds in 30 Cities or comment about World Pillow Fight Day.

lourdes sanchez bayas on Mar 25, 08  1,225 Trends   337 Comments
Union Square...That looks like lots of fun.
lourdes sanchez bayas on Mar 25, 08  1,225 Trends   337 Comments 0
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