FRIDAY 6TH

Move in slow motion for three minutes in a public space, starting suddenly and ending without comment *
Check your hair in a window as if it were a mirror, even better if there is someone on the other side
Saunter uncomfortably for a while then stop, remove your shoe and empty out all of the raisins inside
Travel in a line with at least three other persons, gently massaging each other’s shoulders as you go
Do a handstand in an unusual place, like the foyer of a theatre, a library, a museum or public toilet
Stop while walking as if you remembered something and exclaim “The boogie!” six times within a minute
Think of a chess piece – for six minutes, move or stand where you are as if you were that chess piece
Follow a stranger for approximately 6 minutes and 66 seconds, and imitate their posture and movements
For between 6 and 666 seconds, stand in the middle of a busy place pretending you are having a shower
Get a stranger to dance with you for more than six seconds – it is likely that you hum a popular song
Whenever somebody asks you ‘how are you?’ or a similar question, simply respond in interpretive dance

* Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere

SATURDAY 7TH

Late one night film yourself dressed as a cat-burglar stealing a possession from your own living room *
Give a makeover to something that normally wouldn’t receive one; like a bin, tree, phone-box or chair
Pretend that one of your hands is permanently stuck to your face – either your forehead or your cheek
Carefully kick a piece of fruit down a street, never too hard. You may want to draw a face on it?
Attempt to access extraterrestrial consciousness by exploring permutations of things, ephemera et al. **
Imaginatively vandalise an advertisement in a public area and feel absolutely zero guilt for doing so
Write a poem or letter to a stranger and slip it between the pages of a newspaper for someone to find
Dress up as a mime and then shout out actions (‘Tug A Rope’, ‘Stuck In A Box’ etc.) in a public space
Take a piece of bread, go to a pedestrian crossing and help it cross to the other side with your nose
Order wine in a restaurant. When the waiter pours you a taster, hold it to your ear and listen to it
In sunlight he’s shimmering and pulling away at the edges, tattered, smiling, tumbling from the wall. ***

* Adam de la Cour, composer
** Neil Luck, composer
*** Jon Clay, poet

SUNDAY 8TH

If you can only think within familiar words create a new language and devise the meaning of each sign *
Introduce pages of crumpled or folded newspaper into all of your pockets, t-shirt, trousers and socks
Carry around a large frame structure, in such a manner that you are enclosed – like a living portrait
Fill a bowl with water and strike the sides as you slosh it about, maybe recording the sound of it
Create a dance track by going to a noisy environment and pushing both your tragi in and out in rhythm **
Pronounce the word ‘irony’ as ‘iron-ny’ / ‘I Ronnie’ for a whole day and see if anyone gets the irony
Express your passionate and unconditional love to a tree, lamp-post, or pavement slab for six minutes
Invent an exclamation, then use it casually in conversation. If asked, it was in a strange phrasebook
Place a coin on your palm and hold it out. Only when someone takes it, are you free to move again
Speak like Stephen Fry. Pretend to be Stephen Fry. Move like Stephen Fry. Behave like Stephen Fry.
Make a list of nouns as they occur to you. Make a list of verbs as they occur to you. Make a list of ***

* Catalina Niculescu, artist
** Louis d’Heudieres, composer
*** Catherine Bennett, artist

MONDAY 9TH

Two friends share a cheeseburger meal whilst talking about an oak tree. All the trash goes in the cup *
Ask someone for the date, then after they tell you, say with tired desperation, “yes, but what year?”
Out of breath, give someone a CD or memory-stick, telling them it’s very important, then absconding
Stand at the top of an escalator smiling, your palm up and out. How many high fives can you get?!
Speak like a Shakespearean character. If asked why, reply: we know what we are but not what we may be
Choose a favourite song and use a sentence from the lyrics in normal spoken voice during conversation
Put your phone next to your ear, and for some time pretend you reply “No way. No way!” into the phone
Ask 66 people directions to a monument, attraction or museum which is located in another city/country
Approach a stranger and pretend you recognise an old friend. You met at Christine’s party 2 years ago
Stand still at the beginning of a pedestrian crossing and when a car stops simply stare at the driver
Approach a stranger on the street, get their attention, say: “I thought I would never see you again.”

* Andy Ingamells, freelance contributor of thought

TUESDAY 10TH

ONE IS THREE IS FIVE IS FOUR IS FOUR
TWO IS THREE IS FIVE IS FOUR IS FOUR
THREE IS FIVE IS FOUR IS FOUR *
Buy something inexpensive in a small shop, then immediately hand it back saying “I bought it for you”
Standing in view of a security camera, slowly turn just your head to face it, as creepily as possible
Sign or mark every sheet of a roll of toilet paper and sell it on the internet, in a presentation box
Close eyes anywhere, recording—left hand if right-handed/right hand if left-handed—all you experience **
Draw faces onto the tips of your fingers and amuse people as you like, perhaps creating a little play
Shout ‘EUREKA’ as excitedly as you can and then follow it a few seconds later with a drawn out ‘CRAP’
Play ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ out loud, on a bus, doing your best to not blink whilst moving minimally
Hold an ice-cream or ice-lolly in a warm place but don’t eat it, let it melt and drip all down you
66 times within 6 minutes pretend you are looking for your mother, you’re convinced she’s around here
Moving to the floor, away from furniture/moving to gathering in away from sound moving in between ***

* Giorgio Sadotti, artist
** Billie Maciunas, poet
*** David Toop, author/musician

WEDNESDAY 11TH

A summery day, convince a stranger to draw a tree on a piece of paper without spoken or written words *
Six times within sixty seconds approach the window of a parked car and shout “hello” before moving on
Stand still at a public space (or public transport) – count all the people that pass by you, up to 66
Facing a score, you mustn’t ask what you have to do, but what you can do with it. There is no author **
Invent a religious or political movement that is intolerant of intolerance and pull in your own flock
TOGETHER Sobriquet fold_out. Pay me seashells to recite ongoing _____________________________________ ***
Remove a page from any book and cook it within a larger meal. Whilst eating it, consider its message
Decide upon your most abominable characteristic and transform this into a superhero name for yourself
Make a simple origami with a bit of arty twist, including the word ‘6666 Events’. Give it to somebody ****
Get someone to lick something tasty from a part of your body, excluding the feet. Okay, feet allowed
if u had to pick would u pick quick easy slow hard life death left right tuesday wednesday 10 or 20?x *****

* ASA, director of Silly Missions
** Markus Wenninger, composer
*** Five Years, artist collective
**** Haruka Shibuya, pianist
***** Mica Levi, composer/Micachu and the Shapes