Reverend Billy & The Church of Earthalujah | NY, NY | 2011
Reverend Billy and The Church of Earthalujah
THE CHURCH OF EARTHALUJAH featuring Reverend Billy and the 35-voice Stop Shopping Gospel Choir is part theater piece, part church service, part performance art and wholly inspirational. Family friendly but big bank deadly, The Church of Earthalujah condemns the corporate exploiters and polluters of the world to the Lake of Hellfire - especially the ones that spew CO-2 through mountaintop removal, hydro-fracking, super malls and shipping sweatshop products long distances with with fossil fuel-burning engines. We believe that the fires and droughts and quakes and typhoons are not natural disasters, but shout-outs from this big living thing we’re a part of. The message is loud and clear when we learn to put our ears to the dirt: “STOP SHOPPING!”Join us every Sunday at 7:30 PM at Theatre 80 in NYC’s East Village, and at our LIVE WEBSTREAM. Tickets are $10, but no one will be turned away.
Mission
The Church of Earthalujah is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters, earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on 4 continents defending land, life and imagination from reckless development and the extractive imperatives of global capital. They employ multiple tactics and creative strategies, including cash register exorcisms, retail interventions, cell phone operas combined with grass roots organizing and media activism. They are entertainers and artists, performing regularly throughout The US and Europe.
This week’s service (4/3/11): A DOUBLE CANONIZATION
with Justin Vivian Bond and Tim DeChristopher
Justin Vivian Bond is our home-grown hero. His work as a cabaret performer, writer and visual artist is deeply informed by radical faerie culture, feminism, and AIDS and radical queer activism. He has been a conduit for erotic life force of Mother Earth into the lives of legions of fans around the world. He epitomizes what we hope for when we resist the mono-culture.
Environmentalist and activist Tim DeChristopher will also attend our April 3 Church of Earthalujah, and accept his canonization into Fabulous Sainthood. In 2008, hoping to interrupt the energy policies of the Bush-Cheney, he put in a bid for 22,000 acres of federal land against the gas and mining companies with little ability to pay. He was convicted in early March for two felony counts and faces up to 10 years in prison.
