CALL OUT for set up and take down crew for the Hori-zone eco-village convergence space.

Hello to all you handy people.

We are in need of people that will help with SET UP and TAKE DOWN of the HoriZone campsite. We are looking for 50+ people for each case.

SET UP: 25th June - 1st July

We are calling for all those who are able to come to the Stirling area to help with setting up the infrastructure for the site. We would be asking you to join existing site collectives, which are focused on specific areas of work.

If you think you might be able to help please get in touch on site_set_up_crew@yahoo.co.uk

Let us know when you will be arriving and any skills you have, if you have no particular skills we still need you. If you're already coming to set up a space etc but can still be around to help with other stuff please contact this email. If you can bring any tools etc that might be useful let us know.

TAKE DOWN: 9th - 15th July

If you can't make it up early but can stay around after the summit we also need people to take down all the structures and infrastructure and ensuring the site is spotless.

If you think you may be able to help with this please email take_down_crew@yahoo.co.uk Again, let us know when you will be arriving and how long you can stay and any skills you have. Also let us know if you can drive or have access to a vehicle, as we will need to be shipping loads of tat away.

Look forward to seeing you!

Hori-zone A zone of self-organisation, horizontal decision-making, ecology and autonomy in action. Call out for art in resistance to the G8

We are calling for art collectives, groups and individuals to bring imagination, creativity and materials to help make our camp an inspiring and beautiful place for us all to be.

From gardens to murals, from sculpture to theatre, from pennants to graff, bring anything that you feel would add to the positive celebration this site will be.

Email address: art_installations@yahoo.co.uk

TAT LIST

This isn't a wish list. It's mostly a list of ESSENTIALS, without which there isn't going to be a convergence space. Much of this stuff can be tatted off skips etc. in YOUR AREA, and it needs YOU to get out there skipping or blagging it NOW. Next week will be too late.

Other stuff needs to be BORROWED from you lovely people. We promise you an elaborate bureaucracy to ensure every borrowed item in the last category below is encoded with your DNA, iris scan and sex of grandfather to ensure it gets back to YOU.

SO PLEASE, PLEASE GET SKIPPING NOW & START SORTING OUT ANY TAT YOU COULD LEND.

All this stuff needs to be on site 25th June . Items showing up a couple of days before the site opens on 1st July will be TOO LATE to be useful. So we've got a big truck touring the country picking up tat from 22nd(?) June. Please get all this tat together in one place a big truck can get to and ring 07910 975003 or e-mail tat_list@yahoo.co.uk to arrange collection. Borrowed items will be labelled when collected and returned to you at a convenient time later, so we'll need a contact number to arrange this.

STUFF TO BE SKIPPED

SINKS: mimimum 6, preferably 10

OIL DRUMS: 40

SCRAP TIMBER: Shitloads needed. Around 180'(55m). 64'(20m) of it should be 4"x2" (100x50mm). The rest can be 3"x2"(75x50mm) or 2"x2"(50x50mm) or similar.

BOARDING: Again, absolutely loads. Can't have too much. ¾" (20mm) shuttering ply is the ideal, but sheets of chipboard, blockboard, MDF also v.useful.

PALLETS: Again, loads needed, but (unlike the items above) we can probably get tat what's needed in Scotland. So people in Scotland please get skipping.

TATTY TARPS : The sort which are no good for leping the rain off any more, but will be OK for screening etc. Also any other materials (such as dense mesh)which could serve this purpose.

DONGY THINGS: Old gas bottles or anything else you can bash to make a noise (for fire points) 20 needed.

NAILS, SCREWS & CABLE TIES If you've got any stashes of these or can acquire loads from somewhere, it'll save having to buy ‘em.

POLYPROP: Ditto. Can't have too much.

GAFF TAPE: Same again.

COREX: That's the corrugated plastic stuff estate agents' signs are made of. Numerous uses, so any you can get hold of. We are informed it sometimes comes attached to 2"x2" timber.

CARPET: the ground on the site is pretty rutted so we need plenty of carpet for inside the marquees

PLASTIC SHEETING

OLD DOORS

PLASTIC BUCKETS

STRING

CHAIRS

CUSHIONS

SEALABLE BARRELS

BLACKBOARD PAINT

BASIC WOODWORKING & PLUMBING TOOLS : (Ones you're happy not to see again. Borrowable ones to be returned are in the last section.

STRAW BALES: We need 32, so if you've got or can blag any it'll save buying. Must be dry.

STUFF WE NEED TO BORROW & WILL DO OUR BEST TO RETURN BUT IT MIGHT GO WALKIES

(Because people other than the crew setting up will have access to it, unlike the category below)

HURRICANE LAMPS: As many as possible

METAL BUCKETS : 60

STUFF WE NEED TO BORROW & WILL DEFINITELY RETURN

WHEELBARROWS: At least 10 -the more the merrier.

SPADES: At least 10 SHOVELS:

MATTOCKS : At least 4

PICKAXES: at least 6

PINCHBARS : should be 5'(1.5m) or 6'(1.8m). 4 if we can get them

SLEDGEHAMMERS 10 or more

TARPS: Good ones you need back. The more & the bigger the better.

WATER BUTTS: 6, preferably with taps, for use before the plumbing is in.

DRIVEALL: 2 would be handy.

BASIC WOODWORKING & PLUMBING TOOLS

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