"May the sun always shine down on your shoes"

What is the point in Candy Land?

Remember when you were little and everything was magical? Well it still is. No matter how many bills you pay, you are still in essence a human, who wants to believe that there is good in the world, that change can be good and that not everything is mundane.

We here at Candy Land want to brighten the day of people, even if only for a second. We all know that there's power in money, politics & corruption, what we forget is that there's more power in hope. We leave messages trying to remind individuals that life is not all grey, there is so much more in your smile than happiness, there's unity, truth and power. Sometimes we leave our messages on signs, sometimes in books, sometimes we hand them to people directly. We aren't expecting a rainbow revolution, but if our efforts here at Candy Land make one person smile and recapture that feeling that everything is mystical, then job done.

The modern age in which we live bombards us all, trying to instill the lie that we are all consuming, passive drones into our hearts. Well what used to be in your heart before the Daily Mail scared you so much you decided to worry about snow, immigration or cancer? Love? Hope? Anger? There's so little time left for us all to start believing in human kindness and connection again. But we can. It starts with you. You could do anything from smiling at a stranger on the train to giving old clothes to the homeless. Any change is powerful. 

The majority if us will never reclaim the freedom and mischief that we experienced as children, but the chance is there, waiting. You can take it. You don't have to do it alone. 

Email us 

• your pictures of this internal revolution whether it be an act of kindness, or the sunshine
• you queries and questions
• your mantra's motto's or poems
• with your problems.

We are change, together, today, forever. 

How Did Candy Land Come To Be?

On the sunny northern morning  of January 29th 2011, two students donned their protest gear (thick woolly jumpers and hastily applied eyeliner) and hopped on the coach from Liverpool to Manchester. On the coach they were trying to think up what to write on their sign, many possible slogans were thought up until they settled on "Educate yourself in Candy Land, it's free!" 

 During that protest the two students walked the good walk and chanted until their throats ran off with their elbows to go and live in Greece. Through out the protest one of the student began shouting "Come to Candy Land" to which the surrounding protesters cheered. After the speeches the students were walking with a large group of people when several police vans were rushing past and then two stopped The police in said vans jumped out and to the crowd's disgust pinned a man, who had been taking some photos of the passing vans, to the ground. The police did this with such force that his camera smashed upon the pavement. Then the police, at one point five of them, proceeded to restrain this man, for a lot longer than seemed necessary and one police man held down the man's face by using his shoe. 

 Everyone around including the two student were shaken and sickened by this violent nature of this man's arrest and the lack of evidence of any crime. One woman near the two students was almost in tears asking a police man who was holding back that part of the crowd why he had been arrested. The two students were upset and confused, the whole street was. The man's cries could be heard, his smashed camera lay on the despondently grey pavement. Everything seemed really bleak. 

As the man dragged into the police van one of the students asked "Can you tell us why you've been arrested?" to which the man replied "I took a picture". The crowd were left looking at each other in confusion and shock, searching for some reason, none could be found. Then one of the students said

 "That shit would not of gone down in Candy Land".

For a moment at least people smiled and light relief was provided. And that my friends, is the essence of candy Land, providing colour, joy and love in places or situations that would other wise be serious. Keep the message, up the fun. 

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