When looking at the 25 instruction to performance in cities from teaching performance studies we decided to create a situation for a mass audience of spectators by leaving messages of enchantment and friendliness on trees throughout the city. We felt this task would brighten peoples days if they stopped to look at our trees, and would create a senses of happiness within the city even if only for a few people. We left a variety of messages on different trees throughout Lincoln, we decided to change the task slightly by leaving a few messages on synthetic trees inside the bar and restaurant Walkabout on the high street in Lincoln. By doing so we got a mix of reactions from the public, in Walkabout people kept looking over at us placing the messages but did not venture over to the tree to look at the messages whilst we were still in the area. On the waterfront people stopped to look at the messages but did not ask what they were for or about whereas in the centre of town due to the time of day we left the messages we had a lot of children stopping, staring and asking what we were doing, so we explained. By leaving the messages in a variety of places we got mixed reactions from the public which is what we desired. I have enclosed photos of the messages on different trees.

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