For our second challenge the Hungarian advocates wanted to create 1010 postcards relating to climate change, and exhibit them as part of the 10:10 Action Day.

The postcards were made by a representative group of 1010 people with the youngest artist being just 2 years old! Students and adults of all ages took up the challenge of creating postcards along with some famous Hungarian artists namely Tibor Kiss, the front man of popular band Quimby, and Gyöngyvér Fábián, a well known Hungarian contemporary painter. Many teachers and students from the University Of Fine Arts Of Budapest were also pleased to take part. Advocates personally visited every participant in the project, giving talks about climate change to nurseries, schools and other interested venues.

After collecting all the 1010 pieces postcards the Advocates got them ready for displaying just one day before the launch event on Sunday 10.10.2010 at the Gödör Club, situated in the heart of Budapest. Thankfully the advocates managed to do this in time and made a great job of the art work with many people admiring and commenting on the installation during the launch event.

During the event advocates took the opportunity to measuring attendee’s carbon-footprints and continued to encourage people to sign up to the 10:10 Hungary campaign. During the evening session of this all day event, we were honoured by the attendance of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom who took part in a discussion about the importance decreasing Hungary’s carbon emissions. The evening was ended with a climate football match. The result was a surprising but rather fitting 5:5 score. Add them and you get the magic number of the day-10!

The exhibition remains open to the public in Gödör until the 15th of October, but this won’t mean the end of this particular challenge. Advocates next plan to organise a travelling version of the show which will move around Hungary and to create a website to display the postcards to an even wider audience. Another idea was to choose 365 of the cards, and make a desk calendar of them. This would be marketable product, and the income from this could be used to help the victims of the red sludge spill.

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