Food Not Bombs

When I arrived in Salt Lake, I took the first exit to "downtown" area (well actually I missed it, and had to drive back, ahh crazy city driving). Anywho, as I continued down main street I came across a huge festival in the park, I Had to Go!! There was NOWHERE to park, but it must have been fate, cuz I took my next right and the spot was waiting just for me.

The festival is Salt Lakes Annual Cultural Festival, with arts, crafts, dancing, music, and food from countries all around the world. Better yet, it was free!!


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After an Amazing day listening to Indian music, watching Brazilian Dancers, and learning to make paper flowers, I finally decided that I had to find a place to stay. Camping is always a cheap option, but Couch Surfing would be pretty damn sweet too. I hoped over to the library just across the street (coincidence ?), where they let me bypass the library card rule for the Internet, and sent a shout out to as many interesting people as I could find. It wasn't an hour later that I got a call, and was hooked up at a place called the BOING house. Just down the street : )

This place was amazing. Initially I thought it was just a sweet hang out, where A LOT of people 'lived'. But the place is actually quite famous, and well involved in the community. Some time ago they got together and joined a group called Food not Bombs. This organization is basically a group who collects donated food from the grocery store and redistributes it to the community. Four times a week they receive donations where volunteers will bring a car full of food boxes to the house, which then go to the local parks where people can have free food. Fruits, veggies, chicken salad... practically anything.



There was this sweet old lady who would come to the door in her wheel chair and the BOING house group would load her up with food. How cool is that? I came down one morning after a charity concert, and there was yet another woman from the community helping them clean up the house afterwards. Sweet? Heck yeah!

I was highly impressed with the crazy lifestyle of the vegan musicians of that house.
So if you ever need a place to stay in Salt Lake they have an open door policy :)