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the banana rag started as the voice of

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the town fool since it was hard to get

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the idea about what I was up to and

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initially I was in Bastion square and I

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thought this would be a way of

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communicating it getting more time

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happening with people who are coming by

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the by my tables and chat get their

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stories because that’s what I always had

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started out with the stories and then

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when the September rolled around and

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started to get cool and I was realizing

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let’s tourists are going to last much

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longer where where else is my audience

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no I decided that I would try their

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schools and I approached a number of the

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schools during lunch hour or recess with

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my banana rags and just handed them out

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to the students of course I was dressed

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in costume wasn’t the most elaborate

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costume at that point but the kids were

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all keen to get anything free and knew

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they didn’t know what it was and through

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that distribution I found a few schools

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that were actually opened having me come

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in and do things with the students which

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was basically teaching art during the

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lunch hour or after school with

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different projects that they are

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supplementing their their idea of art

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and the Victoria Day parade entry was

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the first sort of substantial thing that

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came out of those and I think it was the

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students at SJ Willis junior high school

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the elementary kids I have one

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photograph of being on set upstairs

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might have been in South Park school

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with all the kids with bananas so there

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was various events but it was really

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the Victoria Day Parade I think came

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after the other event that I did during

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that period was an April Fool’s Day

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event at the hillside shopping mall and

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at which I had materials for people to

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decorate a banana or because some of the

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merchant said well but it’s the easter

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weekend you’re not going to just do but

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then the stuff so I said okay well we

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can decorate Easter eggs as well which

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whatever and the mall supplied the

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materials at the tables and the chairs

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and stuffin and I was there for the

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quite a long call actually and I was

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offering some of my fools hat some goofy

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things as prizes or you know whatever

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and it was a busy day because the

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shopping mall you know and there’s

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something to do besides shop whoa what

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an idea I’m surprised they went for it

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actually but anyway so that was

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basically what the banana rag was

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documenting what I’d done or setting up

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sort of an invitation to some other

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events

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