Newcastle Leap Year Flash Mob Event Event Cache
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Newcastle Leap Year Flash Mob Event
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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A Flash Mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, and then quickly disperse.
Acknowledgement: the text for this event is largely based on a 2007 event arranged by GForce.
DATE : Wednesday, 29th February 2012
TIME: 19:45 (7.45pm) to 20:00 (8pm) - only 15 minutes!
WHERE: The Blue Carpet outside of Laing Art Gallery
The Newcastle Leap Year Flash Mob Event for Geocachers will be only 15 minutes long. You MUST be present and place a log sheet into the nominated DURING this time to claim this event. After 15 minutes…we're gone and you were too late! This event will last exactly 15 minutes, not one second longer!
At exactly 19:45 (7.45pm) (as determined by your GPS clock) a bag for log sheets will be placed near the coordinates. As you arrive, you’ll be handed a "log sheet." Participants will sign the log sheets (which will later become the log book). To qualify for attendance, drop them in the designated bag. Bring your own pen – in fact, why not bring your own slip of paper with only your trail name written on it, legibly enough for others to decipher. Names will be drawn from the bag of log sheets for the FTF.
At exactly 20:00 (8pm), the log sheets will be packed up and sealed away. The event area will be evacuated without a trace. Only those participants whose names appear on the log sheets in the bag may log THIS event.
ITINERARY:
19:30 to 19:45 (7.30pm to 7.45pm) Participants should wait patiently near the area or have a stroll around admiring the work of art. STAY AWAY from ground zero until the signal is given. As much as you can, act like a muggle, pretend not to know each other or give any indication that something is about to happen.
At 19:45 (7.45pm) - I will reach ground zero with the log bag, announce the time. This is the signal for the Newcastle Leap Year Flash Mob Event to begin. Everyone now makes their way to GZ.
At 19:46 (7.46pm) - Log sheets will be handed out for those who did not bring their own. Bring your own writing instrument. Sign individual log sheets and drop them in the collection bag. Mingle. Trade any travel bugs and coins. Swap geocaching stories and tales. Brag and take photos. Make arrangements to meet elsewhere, or to find the various caches in the nearby area. There are plenty of places to meet up nearby with plenty of caches to be found in the cache rich area of Newcastle
19:53 (7.53pm) - The event “banquet” will be served! (Don’t too get excited or come too hungry, it’s just chocolates.)
19:55 (7.55pm) – Draw for the honour of claiming the FTF
19:56 (7.56pm) - Assemble for a group photo, and assemble FAST. Listen to the photographer for directions. Group photo is taken.
19:59 (7.59pm) – I will call the one minute warning "It is now 19:59!" Prepare to leave and CITO the area of wrappers.
20:00 (8pm) EXACTLY - Wait for it ... then LEAVE the area (right at 20:00)! Meet elsewhere if desired. The log sheet bag will be packed up. If you don't get to it in time you can't log the event.
The Blue Carpet is a piece of Public Art in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Although classified as a piece of public art, it is closer to an urban design feature. The piece occupies an open public space in front of the Laing Art Gallery, close to the main shopping and nightclub areas. The square has been covered in a skin of blue paving slabs. At the points where this skin reaches a building the slabs curve upwards to create the sensation that the tiles are a fabric laid over the area. There are a number of benches that appear to fold up from the carpet surface, and beneath the benches are sunk glass topped boxes which hold coloured lights. At the eastern end an established staircase leading to an elevated walkway is encased in a curving skin of wood ribbons. Completed in 2001, the piece took six years to realise.
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