Post #234617 by caerthe on Mon, May 29, 2006 8:57 PM

Wow.

A lot happens when you're gone for the holiday. Some very good discussion.

Now back to promot.....er seems a few of you don't like that word. Ok "Tiki Awareness".

(ahem)

Now back to encouraging tiki awareness. There's a certain festival occurring in our fair city (The Dragon Boat Festival) in which it seems doing something to encourage tiki awareness, might be a good idea. The festival often features Polynesian dancers and some forms of perceived island entertainment, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has done something to increase tiki awareness in such a venue?

The following is just brainstorming. Respectfully, I mentioned that some of my ideas were just "brainstorms" earlier and I think that was forgotten.

Now back to our regularly scheduled post...

-Another organization I'm associated with often conducts "demos" in which we attempt to offer a small sample of what the organization is about. Generally, there's an art, entertainment and sport element to these and I'm thinking that something similar might work. Possibly some music (either recorded or live) and examples or demonstrations of art (tiki carving, general tiki art, presentation of a tiki mug collection, etc) might be something. I really don't know if there's anything that could be considered a sport for tiki.

-Sponsor or build a Dragon Boat. This might be something better suited for our local kinetics race.

Thoughts?