Ruby (of OrangePolitics fame) asked earlier today
I have only one question: when are we holding the first dance-in on the lawn?
Oh, and when are the owners and/or board or WSM going to take some leadership on this issue?
Looks like soon, very soon.
A call for unlicensed performance via Steve Sheman’s comment on OrangePolitics :
email that’s been flying around (Ruby, maybe you want to post this seperately?)
Subject: We Can Dance If We Want
To: Please forward widely
It’s a Carrboro scandal…and Carrboro residents are dancing back…Wednesday, August 23, 5:30 pm… Last week Carr Mill Mall manager Nathan Milian told Bruce Thomas, dancer extraordinaire, that he could no longer dance on the “private property†of Weaver Street Market’s lawn. Read www.newsobserver.com/102/story/476463.html for a more complete story.
Today, Weaver Street Market and Carr Mill Mall put out a press release with their “solution†to this PR fiasco: a new program called “Live on the Lawn.†These scheduled events will feature performers who apply at Weaver Street Market and are “approved†by Carr Mill. The press release says there “will be a limit of one performance per week per artist or group.â€
Personally, I don’t dance once a week. I dance when I want to. I want Bruce to dance when and where he wants to. Please come help us make this point: TOMORROW, Wednesday, August 23, 5:30 pm.
Bring instruments. Bring your dancing shoes! Bring your friends.
Mary
Civil dance disobedience in Carrboro? Makes sense to me! ( via youtube)
I am a student at Chapel Hill High School, and I am writing an article for our newspaper, The Proconian, about Bruce being banned from the WSM lawn. I was wondering if you or anyone you know that is knowledgable on the situation could drop me an e-mail about related events and action being planned for the future. My e-mail is mirandacy457@yahoo.com. Thanks so much!
–Miranda