Monday, 2 February 2009

TCK Day

So it's been the subject of much discussion on the tckid forum lately. I myself have been thinking about it endless times.

The idea of a TCK Day would be...amazing.

I know that it's nothing compared to say world poverty. Or Zimbabwe. But it's still an important topic. The TCK stands up for racism, sexism, diversity, even our ever increasing globalisation.

My idea was to have some kind of TCK Week, rather than a day, in which we could fit everything we wanted to do, all across the world. It HAS to be all across the world, otherwise it wouldn't work. The idea of a TCK is to be international, and that's what I want to do.
During the first dew days, groups of TCKs could try to raise awareness by hosting talks at international schools, private schools, public schools, workplaces, offices. Talk to some TCK celebrities, do some interviews, gain media attention if necessary.
During that week, invites would be distributed to a TCK Fest where the week's efforts would culminate in a TCK video viewing, art jams, little stalls selling artworks and TCK books, maybe a few TCK celebrities coming, language demonstrations, and so on and so forth.
T-shirts would be specially made for the event, as well as little buttons.

I know I'm completely drawing from the Con-fest experience, but I reckon that when they started this Con-fest stuff, they had a good idea of what was going on.

The t-shirts were a huge point of concern, especially about whether the slogans would segregate 'us' from 'them', which was not what we wanted to do at all.
So as a way of inclusion, I guess, what would and wouldn't be appropriate for those who don't see themselves as Third Culture Kids?

1. "The Future is Upon Us: TCK!!!"
2. The phrase 'third culture kid' in as many languages as possible.
3. "I dare you to ask me where I'm from."
4. "You know you're a TCK when... ."


If you have any suggestions or opinions regarding the slogans, please help and give them. =) Any help is appreciated, and we want everyone to be involved in this. =)

Mishy <3

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