Pirates amass in Edinburgh to Ceilidh dance and tackle climate change - Yarr!
A gale strong enough to blow ye' ship to Davy Jones's locker were a-blowin' across the Scottish main...luckily all the nearby pirates were safely moored that night in Edinburgh. With the decks swabbed for Ceilidh dancing and armed only with their green credentials, they raised £1,000 in golden ducets for People & Planet
Jamie, Mark and Raphaiella in full pirate regalia
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With a focus on fun as well as raising serious amounts of cash for People & Planet’s climate change campaign, the group teamed up with the uni’s Folk, Chillout and Fencing societies for music, massages (for stressed out pirates) and swordfighting!
The event featured a “Pirates are cool - meet the real criminals!” display, exposing Royal Bank of Scotland’s continued funding for oil and gas extraction projects.
A huge thank you to everyone in the Edinburgh group for organising such a great fundraiser, and to the Camelot Foundation who have offered to match-fund money raised for climate-themed events in and around Go Green Week.
Fairtrade booty to be won in the raffle
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Emily Freeman survived to tell the tale:
People & Planet Edinburgh discovered evidence on the internetshowing the correspondence between the decreasing pirate population and an increase in global warming. The evidence is clear that the fewer pirates there are, the worse climate change gets, and this seems to have led to a new, socially aware breed of Pirate. Based on the numbers who turned out to celebrate, dance and be merry (whilst contributing substantial sums of their well-discovered treasure to People and Planet), this new breed of pirate is growing fast! All manner of swashbucklers attended the ceilidh, from those by who had opted to adopt a penguin instead of parrot as a statement about the melting icecaps, to recycling pirates whose hats were cleverly fashioned from old newspapers (and who won a bottle of rum for their very innovative environmental idea!). The dancing was wild and happy, with beautiful music from the university’s folk society and energy fuelled by delicious rum.
Captain Bluebeard, when interviewed between dances, commented on the government’s current policies on curbing climate change:
“Arrhrrr! There be too many emissions an’ not enough sailin’, say I! We’d do better replacin’ the Prime-minister wi’ my monkey Timmy.”
When asked what he thought of the dancing he remarked “Avast! Ya-Harr!” . Which was nice.
The night was clearly a success all round, with many a pirate’s hard work well paid off. People & Planet plundered over £1,000 in loot in the one night!*
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Yarrr!
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Fencing society stage a swashbuckling sword fight
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