Funeral Rebellion (Auckland)

Kia Ora Rebels!

Our Halloween Rebellion received such great feedback we decided to do it again! Although this time round we’ll take on a more funeral based theme,since Halloween will be over.

Here’s the plan: we’ll still have a few zombies in make up and costumes (white bloody shirt, dark trousers) but most of us will be dressed in all black ready for a funeral. Don’t be afraid to get a bit creative and dramatic with this. We’ll do a silent march up Ponsonby Rd, left at K Rd, down to Upper Queen St and all the way down to Britomart, then back up. Its about 4km and at funeral pace should take an hour or so. We’ll also be holding lanterns and tombstone-shaped placards with “R.I.P. – died in X manner related to climate change”.

Reach out team:
To be more relatable to the crowd, XR members reaching out to public and giving out flyers will be dressed as if going out themselves (“we’re not just a bunch of weirdos, we’re people just like you!”). So no XR t-shirts, just nice shirt/trousers/dress/skirt and your XR badge!

Meet us at 6:30 pm at Western Park (entrance to the park on Ponsonby Rd) and we’ll do our make up together, a short warm up and head out for our Funeral Rebellion! No doubt we’ll go for a meal and a drink after if you’re keen.

We’ll have around 20 shirts to hand out, about 10 lanterns and a few flags and placards.

Please let us know on facebook if you are able to provide:
– Face make up
– Battery candles and/or glass lanterns (not the paper kind)
– Tombstone placards with your epitaph/how you died (tied to a stick so you can have it in one hand and your lantern in the other)
– Black and white XR flags
– Printed themed flyers (available soon)

This is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/548670049296120