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TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT DOOR. ADVANCE TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED. (Door price, a suggested donation of $10-$12; pay-what-you-can.)
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands -- and they are coming to Chicago for ONE SHOW ONLY!
They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked on four continents defending community, life and imagination. Over the 15 years of their "church," the devils have been consumerism and militarism. And in this time of the Earth's crisis - they are especially mindful of the extractive imperatives of global capital.
In the performance spectacle "Faster! Monsanto Die! Die!" the devil is Monsanto, the company responsible for Agent Orange, PCBs, GMOs, Bovine Growth Hormone, honey bee-killing Neonicotinoids and Glyphosate, recently designated as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
Their activist performance and concert stage performance have always worked in parallel. The activism is content for the play. Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir have won an OBIE Award, the Alpert Award, The Dramalogue Award and The Historic Districts Council's Preservation Award (for leading demonstrations to save Manhattan's Poe House). While in Chicago, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir will join the March Against Monsanto.
MORE INFO
www.guildcomplex.org
www.revbilly.com
**Advance tickets purchased on this site are available at a discount.
**Email info@guildcomplex.org for info on group ticket sales.
UPDATE: During the performance, Reverend Billy will "Saint" the Chicago community group We Charge Genocide. We Charge Genocide is a grassroots, inter-generational effort to center the voices and experiences of young people most targeted by police violence in Chicago. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to the group.
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Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir is co-presented by the Guild Literary Complex and the Peoples Church of Chicago, located in the historic Preston Bradley Center. Your ticket purchase is a donation that supports the work of both organizations in the community.
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LocationThe Preston Bradley Center (View)
941 W. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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