the Exchange Wunderkammer appeared at the Wunderbar Festival, Nov 09 in Newcastle, at Northern Stage.
Exchanges listed below.

Theatre at Northern Stage quills

John Quinn places porcupine quills in exchange for a sheep's skull

Ellie Langley adds a hand-written quote about the first photograph of Earth.

Tiny bouncy ball hidden in the scallop shells.

Baby's rattle offered.

Porcupine needles exchanged for a sheep's skull

Humidity caught by the hydroscopic action of a lump of lime. Resulting water exchanged for a glass pebble.

Hand-written quote about the first photograph of Earth from space, exchanged for a glass of wine.

Dry seaweed and six pennies exchanged for the skull of a vixen.

Conversation around a prehistoric hot dog revealed a neighbour who found the fossil of a fairy, proving that fairies existed in prehistoric times.

A tomato seedling given in exchange for a good joke, now flourishing and producing tasty toms.

Freshly-dug carrots in exchange for the loan of an awning.

Boiler-service in exchange for a drawing.

Tree canker from a passing traveller in exchange for a pint of beer.

Small change given to a busker who couldn't be bothered to spend it.

Hazelnuts offering.

Used Tyneside Metro tickets for a small piece of peat.

Pieces of Orcadian peat abandoned by a sculptor who went to live in New York.

86 items Freecycled/ Freegled (i.e. given away for free to prevent them going to landfill)


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