Feeling a little shit after a month of relentless bad news? Fancy a bit of cheering up? Like cake? Well this is the perfect event for you.. Cake Riot was born out of the wish to spread a little bit of happiness in what has been a pretty grim year for many of us. Events are happening across various international cities this Sunday 5th December from 2.30pm. Some will be big, some will be small (apparently there will be a Cake Riot at the ATP music festival in England involving just one woman distributing baked goods at a Godspeed You Black Emperor gig). But all events will involve people gathering together and sharing cake.
What Cake Riot is:
- Free
- Positive
- Non-political
- Unofficial
- Entirely up to yourself
What Cake Riot is not:
- A baking contest. If you can’t bake or don’t have time to, shop-bought biscuits, buns or Mr Kipling will suffice (he does make exceedingly good cakes after all)
I’m helping to organise the Dublin Cake Riot. This will involve turning up at Meeting House Square, Rice Krispie cakes in-hand, hoping other people come along too. It will be a casual affair. If you’d like to have a Cake Riot in your city, town or front room, you totally should. You’ll find some guidelines about how to carry it off here.
In conclusion, fuck the misery. Let us eat cake!
