Impresii ZDAY

Un interviu din Croatia din 13 martie intr-un post de televiziune privat:

Dupa ce renumitul  The Huffington Post a scris un admirabil articol despre ZDay, respectiv TZM& TVP:

disoinfo.com le-a urmat imediat exemplul:

Daily Herald Tribune :

Un interviu la televiziunea din Latvia:

Perth, Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsK4fkQQBy4&feature=related

Frankfurt, Germania:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV_lD9LEqvQ&NR=1

Henderson, USA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIvyb1ixlt8&feature=related

Slovenia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_RU92KH6E&feature=related

1.  In Finland there was 6 events attracting more than 250 people combined.  I'm still unaware what happened in Oulu, trying to get information from  there as well (some lone hero arranging a meeting there).

I was  arranging Turku event with good team of fellow activists, and we managed  to get more people intrested than venue could hold: 40 seats before  some arranging -> 60 people around when we started showing Addendum,  plus some people were left outside or turning back at door. We had about  100+ DVDs and flyers to hand out people left outside. One person was  sitting at floor watching the movie. After that we had 2 short  presentations and discussion (event duration 5 hours).

 

pics: http://jussivalonen.posterous.com/ilkan-kuvia-turun-z-paivasta-2010  (you might also want to look at first pic from http://jussivalonen.posterous.com/z-paiva-turusa-2010-jalkipuinti-kuvia  )

 

Tampere also had more participant than seats. Helsinki was  again the biggest attractor with more than 100 heads. Lahti, Joensuu and  Lappeenranta also managed to attract dozens of people.  

But  enough about Finland: I have a suggestion for everyone of something i'm  already doing.

 

I've suggested to Finland event organisers about  collecting and reporting some information for (future) reference in  finnish movement wiki. I'll be translating that info to international  wiki later, but here it is in finnish: http://www.zeitgeist.fi/wiki/Z-p%C3%A4iv%C3%A4_2010  . 

 

Upper chart has following columns (in order) : city,  capasity of the venue (persons), attendance, total amount of time,  documentaries shown, lecture/presentation, discussion/Q&A (duration  etc.), slot for additional information page

 

Lower chart has  advertising/ promotion information (in order): city, flyers, posters,  adds in print media, adds in tv/radio, presence in stored media sites  (youtube etc.), presence in social media (facebook etc.) , media  releases (sent/mentions/ got a contact from media), marked in zday2010.org .

 

What  i suggest is that every chapter makes their own list of meaningful data  (feel free to improve the list presented here) and collecting it before  it's too late and putting it to wiki (chapters own or international) so  we can measure our growth, success etc. later.

 

Anyway, Zday  2010 is over, let's make a better one in 2011 :) 

2. Our Experience in Buenos Aires - Argentina:

We made it on a Park on and important residence neighborhood of the

Capital. We made 4 stands with members talking about:

Hydroponics, What is TZM, communications without Internet, and how to

start consuming in a more responsible way. At 14 in the afternoon we

had about 30 people passing trough the different stands....as it was a

park lot of people gathered over there talking and searching for

members to chat . Bytheway we were like 50 members organizing, helping

ourselves, giving away flyers and inviting people...one of the most

remarkable points of the Zday was that there were lots of member that

we only knew virtually who came from very different places of the city

(BA is very big) and helped out a lot...we got time to socialize and

get to know us a little bit more...which its very important for us to

grow as a movement....i always get this felling among Zs, that we

truly are one besides our environment or educational differences...

We also did 3 lectures. One was to consume responsible, another of how

humanity acts and behaves in a monetary system and how we would act of

behave in a RBE. When the dawn came, we had a lecture comparing the

Monetary System -how it works made "for dummies" so ANYONE could

understand whats wrong with it and why its now irrelevant for us- with

a RBE....this lecture was GREAT! It was the peak of the event with

about 150 persons just listening to our member who did a great job. It

was powerful for all of us...

After that we made a short debate, passes a few short videos and then

addendum....meanwhile some members made another debate about the

topics with a group of people who already watched the movie.

In the end we estimate we had from 500 to 800 persons passing trough

the event in the whole day...maybe a little bit more...its hard to

tell cuz we didn't have a way to measure all the time...anyways...it

was a great day for all of us!!!!

I been last year in the Zday, and we had 250 persons watching the

movie...and we were like 10 members organizing and acting...we have

grown...not exponentially yet, but i think its a matter of time, at

least here in Argentina...

a big abraZo for all of you brothers!

3. In Pelotas, Brazil, the event was also a great success! =D

We  chose a small location, hoping that 20 people or so would show up, but  we had about 40 attendees, completely filling up the place. 

It  was a short event, a screening of Addendum followed by a nice Q&A  session. Since the place was crowded, there were people standing the  whole 3 hours, which really amazed me.

 

Another nice moment was  at the Q&A, when this 60 year old man said that he almost didn't  came to the event, because of what he had seen in the first Zeitgeist.  But after watching Addendum and seeing us speak of the movement, he told  us that his opinion had changed and he was really glad to have come. =)

 

Our brazilian official chapter went online at ZDay, so it's hard to  tell how much of these statistics are a consequence of the events. But  we already have over 50 people signed at the website, and almost 400  visits with 1300 pageviews.

 

A great ZDay indeed.

All the  best,

Konrad Sauer

Porto Alegre, Brazil

4. Well, I can report the event is Scotland was a resounding success!  Our  event was divided into two parts for the day - in the afternoon we were  spreading the word in the park and in the evening we had two screenings -  Addendum at 6pm and the PJ lecture at 9pm.

 

We put up our  marquee at 10 am in Kelvingrove Park near city centre of Glasgow and by  11 am we had about 10 to 25 people from the public talking to us at any  one time and that continued till we took the displays and tent down at  4pm.  In fact it was so busy, I lost track of time and it was 3 pm  before I took a break from talking!  We had about 15 zg members there  all the time and about 5 of them took flyers and DVDs and walked through  the park handing them out.  In total we gave out around 500 flyers and  200+ DVDs.  There was only one person that was not receptive to our  message (he thought we were some kind of religious cult) but his wife  was talking to me and just told him that she is entitled to her own  opinion.   I had to take a taxi 2x that evening and both drivers were  very interested in z-day when I told them why I was in Glasgow and took  the DVDs and flyers. We gave away balloons to the kids (which had  z-day2010 and our website on them), had face painting and other fun  stuff but we found that most people just wanted to hear our message and  take the DVDs.

 

During the 6 weeks of preparation, we advertised  the screenings on the posters and through the website but by yesterday  morning we only had about 15 seats for each screening reserved. However,  by the time 6pm rolled around, all the 74 seats were taken by people  who had been by the marquee in the afternoon.  The 9 pm showing was less  subscribed but I think that was because it was such a late sitting and  was only going to be finished by 11pm.  That meant that some people who  took the train would have missed that last train.  Anyway - I think it  was a great success. The weather was nice despite the very cold wind and  the two times our marquee tried to fly away but the pegs held it down  in the end.  The day flew by without any real problems and a lot of fun.

 

It was also excellent to meet face to face the many people we had  spoken to over TS or on the forum and emails.  It also has encouraged us  to continue with our stall idea throughout the year.  We did the  flyering in city centre at the end of last year and found that people  don't want to be 'sold' anything but if you have a stall set up with the  information available, esp with the street signs to allow people to  read what its about for themselves, they then like to come up and find  out more.  It is a non-aggressive approach and very effective.

 

We  had two people taking videos and another person took professional  photos so we await them to be editted and will put them up on our  website.  We would also like to submit some of this material to anyone  who is producing a video for all of z-day so please let us know where to  send the footage to be included in any such project!

 

It was  also very inspirational on the day to know that we were not the only  ones spreading the message on the day.  I felt a connection to the rest  of the zg community world wide and look forward to hearing more reports  from the other chapters.

 

Myra

Scotland - UK Chapter

5. In Belgium we also did some flyering a few hours prior to the  event.. people were very receptive (95% took a flyer), some even asked  what it was about (about 30%).

Then we walked all the way to the  event (right at the time it would begin), handing out flyers to invite  people.

 We did need to ask for money (at the doors) because  it was a paid location (a pretty pricey one too), about 7euros.

In  all I think (I don't have the exact numbers) we had about 80 people at  the ZDay event, with only 15-20 people from the movement.

 

So  that was kind of a success, there have also been 8 newly registered  members on the website up until now (counting from ZDay), so we're happy  :)

We already have ideas to make a better ZDay  2011 ;)

 

,Gilles aka 0blivious

TZM  Belgium 

Excellent, Buenos Aires!

6. In Thessaloniki, (Greece) for the second year, we made ZDAY, in hall
Panagiotopoulos, witch is inside the Aristotle campus, the largest campus in
country.

We have started with a presentation of the ZM, history and goals. After
that, we presented the Activist Orientation Guide, and, (after the brake) we
was having the open discussion.


After the first open discussion, we show P.J.'s lecture Where are we going,
and (after a brake also) the second open discussion who close and the
event.

In about 16:30 (local time GMT+2) It was the live link via Skype with video
and sound with the ZEITGEIST UPPSALA (Sweden) with the camera sows audience
and place!

It was very inspiring for the audience, to see live, another ZDAY, in
another Country.

It was about 140 people present at the ZDAY, and at list 15 of them, join us
when they see one day before, 5 minutes in a (serious) morning news show in
TV ! After a complex contact, finally, this tv show present the ZM and our
ZDAY. (we will upload the video this week and I will send the link).

For second year, it was magical !

Hope everybody to be ok, waiting for feedbacks.

Be well.

Fotis Grontas, Thessaloniki