Safe Love Tour

Work was not over and project not completed with us parking our bikes in Umeå once again after the fantastic skellefteå tour, No, we had a mission, and it was called Love Fest!  Filled with positive energy we formed groups to get this event together in order to bring Umeå what it has brought to us... Love!
therese is excited during preparation and can not hide it !

With meetings at the venue, photo printing, promotion on stage at Studentfestivalen, bike painting, dance rehersals, soundchecks in our backs and with a little help from our friends...or rather, with a great deal of help, the first Love Fest was held on June 12 2008!


Our condom shaped photo exhibition brought in some well needed money

We all had such a great evening at "Hamnmagasinet",Café Stormen with our lovely Cecilia in charge brought a great tasting and cheap lentill soup with hummus to the people, "Sex Expert" Amanda Kernell answered questions and killed myths about sex, STÖLD performed fantastic Klezmer music that made our litle dancing feet get the dance-fever and our hearts bleed! Cambodian and Zambian participants put a dance workshop together that filled the room up with enthusiastic people ready for some culture, our bicykle auction was not only so much fun, but it also generated 5000 skr that will be put in to prevention projects on HIV/AIDS in Zambia and Cambodia (Congratualtions and thank you everyone who got to bike home on a love bike, may it be Lennart, (Un)greased lightening, FishEagle or any of the other rainbow fighters).


STÖLD doing what they do best (or at least fantastically well) in front of the
safelovetour banner


Auctioneer Maria with a happy Victoria... Hanna does not seem so happy to
part from the bike though...


Love people teaching the audience how it is done in Cambodia and Zambia


Happy owner of the Flying Horse!

When the two piece band "Dance with me" entered the stage we understood that it could not have ended in a better fashion, Victoria and Julia are two girls we will remember and listen to for a long time to come!


Dance with me bringing the evening to an end

Now a big thank you to everyone who helped us, we have been lucky to be able to work here in Umeå, we have absolutely loved it... and with a support we don't think we could have found anywhere else!

Thanks for the help at the event:
Jenny, Gerda, Marie and others at hamnmagasinet!
Christoffer Aronsson,so much work and we love you for it (and for other things...)!
Cecilia and Cafe Stormen
Öppen Gemenskap and Viva resurs for the bikes!
Caparol for the paint!
Folksam for helmets!
STÖLD
Dance with me
Amanda Kernell
Nisse at studentfestivalen
Kärleksakuten

...other parts of the project:
KFUM for being our host organisation!
Robertsfors Youth Center
Eva and Ånäset Youth Center 
Coralie for dinner in Ånäset 
OK Carlslid
Sävar Church
Ica Ånäset
Claes for accomodation in Hjoggböle
couple in Bullbäcken for fika
Host grandparents for picknick
Björn KFUM
Pasi in the kitchen at KFUM
Lina and Conny for the cabin

Without all of you, it would have been good, but not anywhere close to how it turned out! we will always remeber you for this...and so will Kharma ;)

We also want to thank each and everyone that we have met, this is our final week in Umeå and the project has come to an end! We are returning to Cambodia, Zambia, stockholm, Uppsala and Malmö, but we will surely meet again!

Take care of eachother and play safely :D