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Reverand Billy, Performance and Book Signing

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Date:
Monday, April 18, 2016
Time:
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
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Location Details:
Art Department Courtyard, UC Santa Cruz's Baskin Art Studios

Refreshments, conversation and a book signing will follow at the E.A.R.T.H. Lab, DARC 229.

In celebration of the release of his new book, The Earth Wants YOU!, Reverend Billy will perform a special Sermon on the Sea at UC Santa Cruz's Baskin Art Studios in the Art Department Courtyard at 12 pm, April 18. Refreshments, conversation and a book signing will follow at the E.A.R.T.H. Lab, DARC 229.

Bill Talen (Reverend Billy) is founder and creator of Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are self-professed wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on four continents defending community, life and imagination. For over 15 years, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir have preached against consumerism and militarism as the devils of contemporary society.

The Earth Wants YOU is a motivational handbook for earth activists, filled with inspired visions of a wild, creative, Earth-led cultural revolution.

"You must check out the newest from my favorite transcendent and down to Earth preacher." —Laurie Anderson

Presented by E.A.R.T.H. Lab and the IAS, with additional support from the Porter College, UCSC's Art Department, the Sesnon Gallery and the Education for Sustainable Living Program.


https://earthlab.ucsc.edu/
Added to the calendar on Fri, Apr 1, 2016 9:51PM
§The Earth Wants You! Sermon for the Sea by Artist Reverend Billy
by via Annie Sprinkle
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SERMON FOR THE SEA-- Renowned activsit/artist Reverend Billy will do a "Sermon for the Sea" from 12-1PM in the UCSC Art Department Courtyard. He will presenting his new book, THE EARTH WANTS YOU! from City Lights Books.

POST SERMON-- E.A.R.T.H. Lab (Environmental Art, Research, Theory, & Happenings) will host an intimate gathering and book signing with snacks and drinks from the Institute for Arts and Sciences from 1-2PM.

E.A.R.T.H. LAB is at:
Digital Arts New Media Building (DARC) Santa Cruz, CA
Room 229, Santa Cruz, CA
(Just down the hill from the Art Dept Courtyard performance)

PLUS! At 5:00 PM, Rev Billy will do a lecture presentation about his life and work at Media Theater (M110), Theater Arts Center, UCSC. This event is part of professor TJ Damo's lecture series. All are invited to attend.

NOTE: Public radio station KQED will be video taping a piece about E.A.R.T.H. Lab and the ecosex art movement. So if you are willing to be on camera and/or be interviewed, that would be great.

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