Tuesday, December 30, 2008
RRFM Perth Flyers
Please feel free to copy these flyers for distribution via email/print/postering etc.
How do I get to RRFM?
Hyde Park is about a ½ hour walk from the Perth train station (about 2km) or you can catch Bus #60 from the Esplanade Busport and get off on William Street just past Chatsworth Road (Stop No: 12860).
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What is a Really Really Free Market?
Have you ever picked up something you found on the sidewalk? Or saved your neighbor from throwing away something useful?
A Really Really Free Market is like a potluck for whatever you want to give or take away. Have you ever brought one dish to a group dinner and gone away with a full belly and a balanced meal? Everybody brings something and goes away with more.
We all have skills, ideas, objects, smiles, talents, friendship, excitement, discussions, and many other things to share. If we bring them all together at the Really Really Free Market, we can provide more balanced and full lives for everyone.
As a community we have many more resources than we do as individuals. If we share our resources we won't need to buy as many new ones. This uses fewer of the Earth's resources, and fewer of our working hours, leaving us more time to devote to ourselves and our communities.
Would we all work forty hours a week at one job if we didn't feel we had to? What if instead we worked at improving our individual skills and talents and shared them with each other? We would all spend more time doing things we enjoyed.
The Really Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a non-hierarchical collective of individuals who form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy. The RRFM movement aims to counteract capitalism in a non-reactionary way. It holds as a major goal to build a community based on sharing resources, caring for one another and improving the collective lives of all.How does it work?
It is not necessary to bring something yourself in order to participate however think creatively about whether there is some way that you can contribute.
Bring useful items that you no longer need or want to share freely with other members of your community. Browse through the things others have brought and leave with what your family needs, regardless of whether you brought something or not.
Bring your talent and give something of yourself: music, poetry, storytelling, lessons. Or bring your unique service or expertise to share with others: haircuts, painting, knitting, bicycle repairs etc.
Bring a gift of food and share in a picnic lunch with other friends and families from your community or share surplus produce from your garden.
The only limit is your imagination.
Help us keep Hyde Park clean. If no one takes what you brought, please bring it home with you.
Bring useful items that you no longer need or want to share freely with other members of your community. Browse through the things others have brought and leave with what your family needs, regardless of whether you brought something or not.
Bring your talent and give something of yourself: music, poetry, storytelling, lessons. Or bring your unique service or expertise to share with others: haircuts, painting, knitting, bicycle repairs etc.
Bring a gift of food and share in a picnic lunch with other friends and families from your community or share surplus produce from your garden.
The only limit is your imagination.
Help us keep Hyde Park clean. If no one takes what you brought, please bring it home with you.
Why RRFM?
...because there's enough for everyone.
...because sharing is more fulfilling than owning.
...because corporations would rather the landfills overflow than anyone get anything for free.
...because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at the mercy of the economy.
...because a sunny day outside is better than anything money could buy.
...because no one should have to do without food, shelter, entertainment, and community.
...because life should be a picnic, but it only will be if we make it happen.
...because sharing is more fulfilling than owning.
...because corporations would rather the landfills overflow than anyone get anything for free.
...because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at the mercy of the economy.
...because a sunny day outside is better than anything money could buy.
...because no one should have to do without food, shelter, entertainment, and community.
...because life should be a picnic, but it only will be if we make it happen.
Really Really Free Market Comes to Perth
When: Sunday 11 January 2009, 3-6pm
Where: Hyde Park, Cnr Vincent and William Streets, Highgate
Everyone is invited to arrive between 3:00 and 6:00 pm with goods, services, skills, performances, stories, crafts, food, games, music, clothing, furniture, plants, and resources to give and share with others in the community. There is no buying, selling or exchanging involved—in this market, everything is strictly free. Better than a yard sale, the Really Really Free Market has no price tags!
As at other Really Really Free Markets around the world, we create and participate in an alternative world, a world in which resources are held in common, the community meets the needs of the community, and ‘free’ means just that: really, really free.
The Really Really Free Market is an afternoon when social status can be earned by giving things rather than owning things, and when giving and receiving happens directly rather than being administered through an institution or organisation.
Nothing is required for participation, but if you would like to give something at the event, please think creatively about the skills you have and could teach, the useful or beautiful things you have and don’t need, or the resources you might be able to bring and share with people to create something during the event. This event is not a ‘dumping ground’ for people to get rid of things they don’t want; rather it is a space where people come together to provide for each other, inspire each other, and share together in the abundance of goods, skills, and creativity of our community. People are encouraged to take responsibility for any goods they bring that are not taken by the end of the event.
Where: Hyde Park, Cnr Vincent and William Streets, Highgate
Everyone is invited to arrive between 3:00 and 6:00 pm with goods, services, skills, performances, stories, crafts, food, games, music, clothing, furniture, plants, and resources to give and share with others in the community. There is no buying, selling or exchanging involved—in this market, everything is strictly free. Better than a yard sale, the Really Really Free Market has no price tags!
As at other Really Really Free Markets around the world, we create and participate in an alternative world, a world in which resources are held in common, the community meets the needs of the community, and ‘free’ means just that: really, really free.
The Really Really Free Market is an afternoon when social status can be earned by giving things rather than owning things, and when giving and receiving happens directly rather than being administered through an institution or organisation.
Nothing is required for participation, but if you would like to give something at the event, please think creatively about the skills you have and could teach, the useful or beautiful things you have and don’t need, or the resources you might be able to bring and share with people to create something during the event. This event is not a ‘dumping ground’ for people to get rid of things they don’t want; rather it is a space where people come together to provide for each other, inspire each other, and share together in the abundance of goods, skills, and creativity of our community. People are encouraged to take responsibility for any goods they bring that are not taken by the end of the event.
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