World Bamboo Day 2011
16>18 Sept - Korenmarkt, Ghent (B)
World Bamboo Day is organised by Ikebana vzw for Belgium.
BeBamboo used the name 'Bamboosting the future' as a worktitle for this world wide event. For this occasion a bamboo dome village was erected on the Korenmarkt, Ghent.
A 14 m central dome, flanked by two 6 m domes and an 8m dome used as an info point. Oprins Plant nv delivered a beautifull collection of bamboe plants.
Friday evening 16th of September our Mayor Daniel Termont opened the mini bamboo festival by cutting a bamboo pole. OdeGand & Festival Van Vlaanderen programmed bambuso sonoro, a bamboo orgue on saterday the 18th of September. The party that night by the Glimmer-twins was a big succes.
On sunday car-free sunday, the mobility department from the city of Ghent used the central dome as a starting point for the walks in and around Ghent. A concert by Sidi Caravan was the closing act for this mini- festival. The purpose of this event was to generate rumour around the possibilties for the use of bamboo in general and to promote our domes .
Our second purpose, checking out set-up and take-down times was fruitfull, the construction times were well within the designated limits.
World Bamboo Day is organised by Ikebana vzw for Belgium.
BeBamboo used the name 'Bamboosting the future' as a worktitle for this world wide event. For this occasion a bamboo dome village was erected on the Korenmarkt, Ghent.
A 14 m central dome, flanked by two 6 m domes and an 8m dome used as an info point. Oprins Plant nv delivered a beautifull collection of bamboe plants.
Friday evening 16th of September our Mayor Daniel Termont opened the mini bamboo festival by cutting a bamboo pole. OdeGand & Festival Van Vlaanderen programmed bambuso sonoro, a bamboo orgue on saterday the 18th of September. The party that night by the Glimmer-twins was a big succes.
On sunday car-free sunday, the mobility department from the city of Ghent used the central dome as a starting point for the walks in and around Ghent. A concert by Sidi Caravan was the closing act for this mini- festival. The purpose of this event was to generate rumour around the possibilties for the use of bamboo in general and to promote our domes .
Our second purpose, checking out set-up and take-down times was fruitfull, the construction times were well within the designated limits.
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