Crafting a train of bunting to campaign for Fair Fares!

Papergirl Leeds are collaborating with the wonderful Climate Rush campaigning group and Craftivist Collective to fight for fair transport fares and we need craftivists to help please.

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We need you to join us at Leeds Train Station at 2pm to sit on a picnic blanket, drink tea and eat our jam sandwiches whilst crafting petitions in the shape of train carriages. We will have all resources needed but it would be great if you could bring scissors, thread, fabric and even completed carriages with you if possible.

On the day before the stitch-in (9th April) we will be making start on the train carriage bunting at the Papergirl Leeds Exhibition space at Unit 2, Melbourne Street, Leeds, LS2 7PS.


This is a drop-in session between 12-6.

Here's a map (it's only 5 minutes from Primark)

Please could you leave note on the facebook event page if you're coming (so we know how many biscuits to bring!)

Feel free to bring goodies too :)

Across the UK other craftivists will be doing the same in their area on the same day at the same time. Join us in this non-threatening, kitch but thought provoking craftivism project.

Over the next four years the UK Government will hike rail fares by 31%, the highest raise in fares in a ...generation. We were promised 'fair fares' but instead prices are up and our trains are overcrowded. A complicated ticketing system makes it even more difficult for us to choose the train.

As the Craftivist Collective we are passionate about showing our love for our local and global neighbours. These unfair fares will stop people using trains when we need them to help us keep our carbon footprint down. They will hit the people living in poverty the most and stop them getting to their jobs and alienate them even more from society. They will be a great excuse for people to continue to go on shorthaul flights across the UK because it's cheaper and more convenient...the list goes on

This campaign is part of a big issue of inequality and global warming that we need to raise awareness of.

We want people to craft 4inch deep x 7inches wide fabric train coaches (patches like our Mini Protest Banners) with stats, facts, quotes, views on the devastating effects these train fare hikes will have on the world. Please help us make this petition. Cross stitch, hand embroider, write in fabric pens, whatever you can to get the issues out

ALSO:
Join us on the 16th April on our Train Adventure with Climate Rush. Join the 16th Event here