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Revision as of 01:55, 8 August 2008

7/8/8 It's happening! 20 hitchers arrived 1 day ahead of time. Just imagine 8/8/8

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Project 888
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Hitchhike to Paris on 888, August 8th, 2008...08/08/2008...888

On the 8th of August over a hundred people (and counting) will join up to hitchhike to Paris from different places around Europe and further. Join this amazing event with fellow hitchhikers. We invite you to join this event and have an amazing adventure and a great weekend in Paris. Please sign up for this event and help organising it.

HITCHHIKE TO PARIS WITH US

Meet-Up

We will gather in front of the Eiffel Tower, at this exact location: from anytime during the day until around 23:00 (or later even maybe). We are still calling for adventurous hosts from Paris to show up and spontaneously host all of us - but you might want to bring your tent!

We welcome the Paris community to host us hitchhikers, coming to Paris on 888. Please come to Champs de Mars [turl.ca/888 here] and join in to welcome us!

Coordinate!

The 888 Project seeks to ask you to hitchhike from all corners of Europe and beyond (whether from Belfast, Istanbul, Helsinki or Lisbon) to arrive at the Eiffel Tower - this world-renowned French lighthouse - in Paris on 888, August 8th, 2008. Participate in the first European Hitchhiking Week and Day and take part in the open space day on Saturday: "How to live a nomad-life", on hitchhiking, sustainable travel and hospitality exchange, with games, workshops, skill-sharing and knowledge exchange.

  • Participate to make the first European Hitchhiking Week a succes!
  • Get hitchhiking recognized as a real means of transportation!
  • Inspire other people to hitchhike!
  • Have drivers pick up hitchhikers!
  • Share your skills with others and inspire!

Things to do:

  • Organise a local Project 888 Meeting in your country or city to team up with hitchhikers. Use an invitation, and adapt it to your local context, organise a location (your home, your host's home, a local bar, etc), invite other people through your favourite hospitality exchange community, etc, and add your meeting.
  • Translate the press-release and spread it.
  • Help organising events in Paris:
    • read this e-mail
    • Find a nice open spot for the Saturday where we can meet and exchange workshops
    • Think of what you would like to learn and share on Saturday during the Open Space day

Check the Project 888/Volunteer pages for coordination and to see how you can help making 888 a success !

The Program

888 Project logo by Laris(s)a, http://www.laris-s-a.com" (with inspiration from Luis Pacheco)

We Need Help To Organise The Actual 888 Weekend

Here's the program so far:

FRIDAY EVENING

  • Meeting under the Eiffel Tower until late (you know how we will look like)
  • We will play some Games
  • We will all move to a camp-ground/ or your host.

SATURDAY

  • We will be having an Open-Space Day starting at 11:00. The theme of this day is "How to live a nomad-life", on hitchhiking, sustainable travel and hospitality exchange, with games, workshops, skill-sharing and knowledge exchange. Place yet to be determined.

SUNDAY

  • Brunch starting at 1pm at Parc des Buttes de Chaumond?

Speeches

These 'speeches'/ workshops will form an integral part of the open space day on Saturday (in progress).

  • The Organizers

Once the European hitchhikers will have arrived, the organizers will address the hitchhikers.

Ludovic Hubler
  • Hitchhiking

This address will be followed by the speech of Ludovic Hubler (a Frenchman who has just come back from a five-year hitchhiking journey around the world. During his trip, Ludovic organized conferences in more than 200 schools, met a large number of NGOs and organized some international events to create a network between them.

  • The Sustainable Side of the Project

A French association called Nature Propre supports the project The association aims at promoting sustainable development through a certain number of programs and the 888 project is one of the key projects of Nature Propre. Guillaume Mouton and Thomas Chretiennot will deliver a speech about the substainable side attached to the project.

The checkpoint cities

Participants are hitching from different locations. To make an overview of who is hitching from where, and to make coordination a bit easier, there is an overview of the Project 888/Cities. The cities are categorized according to distance from Paris. In some of the cities there are also Project 888/Meetings that are held in the week towards the 8th of August.

You are asked to sign up in the cities you are departing from, or crossing. You can use either the event-pages on Couchsurfing, or the Project 888/Cities. Participants are also using this group to discuss different routes.

The Documentary Project

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The 888 project community has decided to get together and unite to make a documentary about hitchhiking. Different cameramen will be joining different hitchhikers across their journey:

  • Pascal Dumont will be filmed by Fabrice Renucci and they will hitch from Yerevan,Armenia to Paris, France.
  • Martin Boserup will be filmed by Misha Fournial and they will hitch from Saint Peterburg, Russia to Paris, France

Documentary Project instructions for cameramen

We are also inviting all the people wishing to meet up with hitchhikers from all over the world on August 8th, to participate in this documentary project through any way they would feel like: You can either:

  • Keep a journal
  • Take photos
  • Record with an audio recorder
  • Draw
  • Film

The film project will be a sort of patchwork using all the material that the hitchhikers will bring with them on August 8th.

How to hitchhike out of Paris?

Check the page about Paris to find spots to leave the city.

Alternative resources:

Sign Up Now

Sign Up Page

Contact Us Now

Please feel free to contact us if you wish to bring your help to the project:

Fabrice Renucci- fabrice.renucci [at] hotmail.fr +(33)612871824

Robino

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