Look out for people dancing in giant pants and find out how Camerados founder, Maff Potts, thinks we should all be getting through ‘pants’ times.
Life has been pants lately, so what got you through it? The Camerados movement believes we can get through tough times better by looking out for each other in a particular and more human way.
Camerados will be out and about in Greater Manchester this week in two ways…
Pants on The Streets
Folk who are part of the Camerados movement will be coming together in their local areas across several of the boroughs of Greater Manchester on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th November. They will be walking and dancing around the streets wearing giant pants and asking: “When life is pants, what gets you through?”.
Marple Public Living Room, 10am Thurs 11th Nov: Pants On the Streets, Marple Methodist Church
Wythenshawe, 2pm Thurs 11th Nov: Pants On the Streets, Wythenshawe Forum
East Manchester, 9.30am Fri 12th Nov: Pants On the Streets, Lakeside Cafe, Boggart Hole, Clough
Ali is a camerado living in Wythenshawe who will be coming along to wear giant pants on Thursday, “Just before the pandemic, we were all set to do our first Public Living Room in Wythenshawe but we had Lockdown and that was that. It’s time to kick things off again and what better way than Camerados on the Streets in Greater Manchester. I can’t wait to see what the people of Wythenshawe make of it, especially the big pants!”
The ‘When Life Is Pants’ tour, a conversation with Maff Potts
On the evening of Thursday 11th, Camerados founder, Maff Potts, will be in Rochdale for the “When Life Is Pants” tour, everyone is welcome, so come along and have a chat to find out more about the Camerados Movement. You may be surprised how easy it is and how little you have to do to make a big difference for yourself and your neighbourhood. (And you can keep your pants on!)
Maff Potts is a custard cream fan and founded the global Camerados movement in his bedroom 6 years ago after 20 years running charities for people with very tough lives, advising the Government and even turning the Millenium Dome into a homeless shelter.
This is a conversation about all the mistakes and hilarious things that happened when creating Camerados’ public living rooms from Baltimore to Blackpool, from NHS hospitals to the Brooklyn Bridge and some massive light bulb ideas that you can use too.
Come along to the ‘When Life Is Pants’ tour in Rochdale at the Better Together building, 7pm on 11th November for a natter with Maff Potts, founder of the Camerados movement.
Some folk in Greater Manchester have set up Public Living rooms: agenda-free spaces, open to everyone to go for a chat and a cuppa with no judgement and no fixing, like Marple Public Living Room, which is open every Thursday! While some folk just take the 6 Camerados principles into their daily lives. Anyone can be a camerado, it’s a behaviour thing and it changes and saves lives.
There are local camerados from many boroughs across Greater Manchester and the country! So, if you’re in Greater Manchester on Thursday evening, come along to the ‘When Life Is Pants’ tour and find out more about the movement of people who give a damn.
For more about Camerados click here.
