# Poo Themed actions!

#### **Poo Pouring** <img src="https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-05/scaled-1680-/PcHh2o-dip-icon-txt.png" width=100 alt="toe dip" style="float:right">

<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/t5oxEXsYriQ?feature=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A short video of a poo-pouring action from Wave 1</a>.

##### Rogers Poo Recipe!<br>
- Make some porridge, as you would for breakfast but thinner and more watery. 
- Then thickened it up by adding white flour (in cold water) and boiling again till the right consistency achieved. Needs to run slowly down a vertical surface.
- Then add torn bits of kitchen paper and stir in some water-based brown paint.
- There is plenty of scope for variations!!



This action idea could also be a centerpiece for a larger event.

**Recce and rehearsal** 

Practice your pouring ceremony beforehand to be sure it goes right. Most targets will be vertical so practice pouring onto a vertical surface. Use a receptacle such as a squishy plastic bottle to pour from.

Survey the Pouring target beforehand to plan your theatrics, and also to be sure it will cause no lasting damage.

Important Warning - be aware that Poo Pouring on a permeable surface, such as stone, could cause long lasting stains, impossible to clean off on the day. Avoid permeable surfaces due to the possibility of inadvertently causing ‘criminal damage’!


**Clean up!** 

It is vital to clean up after your point has been made if you want to avoid any charge of criminal damage!<br>
Bring water and cloths to clean up, and place a piece of carpet beneath the target to catch drippage.

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#### **Poo Party**
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ve0mu0uZ1E" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><h6>River Creatures Party by Taunton's River Tone but Raw Sewage in the Water turns it into a Poo Party</h6></a>(Youtube 3 mins)

##### **Brief Action Plan for Sharing**

**Location** - busy park, Saturday morning, polluted River Tone in background. 

**Props and Costumes** - long table so we can all sit behind, in shot. Tablecloth smeared in sewage with banner "Stop the Poo-lution" and "crockery" which is bits of old plastic taken from the river plus "Crisis, What Crisis?" tea-pot. 

Guests are wearing animal heads and human colourful clothing to match their creature.

Also at the party are citizen scientists in hazmat suits (under a fiver at builders merchants) with clip boards, testing the river water in jugs on table, which animals are drinking.

##### **Soundtrack**
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnzlhctOiY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><h6>Swimming In It by Beans on Toast</h6></a> (Youtube 5 mins) - perfect length and really added something.<br>
Whilst it's playing - creatures dance around table, drink lots of river water, eat turd and poo cakes and gradually all die. Citizen scientists express angst and grief. Final scene is a tableau of dead creatures, debris and banners.