Mock road signs, covered in stickers of ironical drawings made by Egle and her friends for that occasion, enticed the passers-by to some stalls set up along the avenue. The stalls had been set up as tents and were covered with posters and bulletin boards explaining the course followed by consumer products, step by step along the way. Egle, three other “Hemispheres” activists, Daiva, Aurelija, and Lina, as well as some other friends, invited visitors to the stalls. They were wearing black tee-shirts with the words “I am concerned”.

The first stall dealt with the extraction of raw materials and its impact on the environment. The next two stalls dealt with the manufacturing and distribution of consumer products. Visitors could express their opinions on their working conditions and get information on the notion of decent work. The last stall was about consumption and its ugly consequences; empty metal drums represented wastefulness.

Egle planned the event as part of her work with “Hemispheres”. She selected the period of the Kaunas International Textile Art Biennial, which draws contemporary designers, artists and lots of visitors from several countries. Egle also chose to hold the entire show on the street, which was “the best way to communicate and pass information around.” Egle’s event was given extensive coverage by the Biennial’s organizers and by quite a few Internet information websites, such as Ikrauk Ziniu.

In the end, it is not true that “nobody cares” about what Egle has to say! Indeed, on that Friday, on that large avenue, a great many passers-by stopped by, asked questions, wrote down their reactions on the bulletin boards. Egle said, “I was stunned to see how interested young people were in the issues of consumption and decent work; I hadn’t thought they would be so concerned!”

Hemispheres is partly funded by the European Union.