New West woman bring kindness out of riot chaos
When Ingrid Tamboline watched the Stanley Cup riot break out last Wednesday from her home in New Westminster, she felt fear, shock, disgust and confusion.
“I couldn’t understand why anyone would do that,” she said. “I was angry, I was really angry.”
In the aftermath, Tamboline wanted to help, but most of the cleaning had been done already, so she came up with a different idea - one that strung together the cathartic expressions of people recovering from a riot.
Inspired by a Museum of Anthropology initiative from the Dalai Lama’s 2004 Vancouver visit, Tamboline gathered brushes, paints and scraps of fabric, and headed downtown the day after.
She set up what’s now called the Kindness Flag Project, where people are encouraged to paint their post-riot sentiments on scraps of fabric, which then get strung up through all the areas trashed in the riots.
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