Pillow fight at Phillips Square in 2009
Saturday, April 2 is International Pillow Fight Day, an event coordinated by the Urban Playground Movement, which includes Toronto-based Newmindspace.
Among the more than 100 locations around the world participating is Montreal. Its pillow fight is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Phillips Square, where a similar activity was held (in the rain) in 2009 and again in 2010.
The Facebook event for the Montreal pillow fight has an astonishing 800 planning to attend, plus 400 maybes. Even applying the usual 10:1 ratio of those who say they’ll come to a Facebook event and those who actually show up, it’s still quite a large number of people.
Other Canadian locations are Calgary, Kingston, London, Quebec City, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver and Waterloo, with varying levels of planned attendance.
cool I remember the turnout sucked in 2009 because of the rain
Glad you finally woke up to pillow-fight violence! As a medium of expression, pillows make widows! Okay, maybe not. Maybe internet pillow fights are the ultimate in bandwidth – I dunno – sleepligathy?