We join in tulipomania
on March 31, 2008
in gv
Far from being hypocritical, we’ve always been reluctant to follow any aggressive marketing strategies in order to churn out an immediate success. What particularly concerned us a few years ago was that market-borne tulipomania, whose promoters claimed the right to outline and guard standards in teaching English. Now that they no longer seem to raise these standards any higher and routinely make specials offers to buy them cheaply, we’re eager to help the tulip, their image, restore its tarnished reputation.
Late last summer Global Village planted at a secret location hundreds of tulip bulbs, hoping to put the flowers on display when they are in bloom. Several varieties have just begun to bloom. Tomorrow then we are showing them to the public. The exhibition opens at noon in front of Akcent bookshop in the square. Be there to admire the sheer beauty of the tulip. All exhibits will go for sale to support a good cause.
