Bubble blowing event to get kindness festival under way

A bubble-blowing ceremony tomorrow night will kick-start the country’s first kindness festival — an event that could spread nationwide.

Organisers of the Random Acts of Kindness Festival in Clonakilty, West Cork, hope the event, which has as its motto ‘cut the misery — spread the positivity’ will lift the town’s spirits just weeks after the massive flood, and snowball.

They said the ‘pay-it-forward’ style event, which encourages people to perform simple, selfless and random acts of kindness for friends or strangers, has the potential to spread nationwide, if people embrace it.