Clandestine Clockwork
Setting up a secret lounge and workshop area in the Parisian Panthéon, members of the underground "cultural guerrilla" movement Untergunther set out to repair its rusted clock in September of 2005. The clock had not worked since the 1960's.
For almost two decades the group has restored crypts, staged readings and plays in monuments at night and organized cinemas and rock concerts in the underground quarries and tunnels of Paris.
"The Latin Quarter is where the concept of human rights came from, it's the centre of everything. The Panthéon clock is in the middle of it. So it's a bit like the clock at the centre of the world."
Other top secret Untergunther restoration plans are in the works.
Story Suggested by Philip Heying
Photo by .Fabio used via Creative Commons licenses
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We spend so much time talking about terrorists, violent revolutionaries, and guerrilla warfare that we needed to hear about something like this. Culture is more important than any cause one can imagine because we are all of culture, we are born of it and are products of it. If one can revitalize a positive culture than one can do anything and save anything. A refreshing and uplifting story. Thanks,
-Martin Palgrave