Project 888

Hitchhike to Paris on 888

We need you to organize and take part in this European Hitchhiking Event: We need you to succeed and get hitchhiking to be recognized as a genuine means of transportation. We need you to create together the official European Hitchiking Day. Hitchhike to Paris for free.

The History of the 888 Project

There was the "TOKYO" hitchhiking sign that that two hitchhikers drew to go back from Rotterdam to Lille... There were the free plane tickets to "Tokyo" that Erik Van Loon offered to the two hitchhikers. But they called him back too late... But N-O-W: the "Tokyo" project got bigger...and bigger... We need you all to organize a hitchhiking race to the "Palais de Tokyo" (located in Paris) from every single country in Europe. Let's organize the official "European Hitchhiking Day" together! Why organizing a hitchhiking race to Tokyo (the Palais de Tokyo in Paris)? We need you to show to the world that hitchhiking is a safe and fun social means of transportation... Are you sick of spending a lot of money on gas? Let’s do something positive to save and protect our beautiful planet… The train is fast but chances are you may not meet anyone So hop on a car and share a nice conversation with a friendly driver.

The checkpoint cities

Hitchhikers who wish to participate in our race and who live further away than the checkpoint cities, can start from those on 080808. All the checkpoint city organization can go through this subgroup -BARCELONA -BILBAO -GENOVA -HAMBURG -LEEDS -LIVERPOOL -MILANO -PRAGUE -SALZBURG

This subgroup seeks to get together all the assistance we need in order to host all the Europeans who are coming to Paris.

This subgroup was designed to find 2 teams who can work on D-Day- 888- to answer hitchhikers' phonecalls. What these two teams will need to do to help the 8 8 8 project:

-Have a landline phone number -Be at home on the 8.8.8 throughout the whole day and evening -Know the hitchhiking spots on a circumference of 200 ks around Paris -Know the Paris transportation system so that the hitchhikers who are lost can easily reach the Palais de Tokyo -Have a list of people who can host (they do not necessarily need to be on C.S. on H.C. - we will establish this list and send it to the two teams)

Inspired by the hitchhiking spirit? The 8 8 8 project primarily seeks to get hitchhiking recognized as an authentic means of transportation. In order to reach this goal we also need artists to give way to their inspiration... You can NOW submit your painting, patchwork, sculpture or photo-- in relation to hitchhiking--to the Palais de Tokyo! The exhibition will be launched on the arrival of the hitchhikers...on 8 8 8...

The Concept -Each hitchhiker can feel free to take photos of each of their drivers... -Once they arrive to the Palais de Tokyo, we will upload them unto a computer... -We will then print them out on a given format... The Goal -Create an artwork that fits on the first piece of lawn located south of the Eiffel Tower.

[[How to hitchhike out of Paris ]] This subgroup was designed to help hitchhikers to leave Paris with their thumb up! We need your help to post all the spots available to get out of Paris.