Fri, July 4, 2008   12:00 PM - 2:00 PM July 4th wtih Norman Siegel Central Park, Stawberry Fields, New York, NY Gather at Strawberry Fields to celebrate the Constitution :: back to top :: Wed, July 2, 2008   6:00 PM PUSH BACK Picnic! At Union Square Park North End Of Union Square Park, At the Abe Lincoln Statue, New York, NY Revelry! Heroes! Dancing! Help us PUSH BACK the privatizers out of Union Square Park. Keep the Pavilion public! :: back to top :: Tue, June 24, 2008   6:00 PM Coney Island Scoping Meeting Lincoln High School, 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Speak up for the Freaks! Keep Coney Island a bastion of oddness. Scoping Meeting Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 6pm :: back to top :: Sat, June 21, 2008   2:00 PM Coney Island Mermaid Parade! Coney Island USA, Brooklyn!, NY The Reverend and Savitri preside over the famed Coney Island Mermaid Parade! Fin-a-lujah! :: back to top :: Wed, June 18, 2008   5:00 PM First Amend-a-thon! Northwest Corner Of Union Square, Union Square in Manhattan, New York, NY Join us for First Amendment recitations with the Heroes Of Union Square's Past! SAVE YOUR PARKS! Keep the Pavilion public space! :: back to top :: Sun, June 1, 2008   2:00 PM Highline Revival and What Would Jesus Buy? DVD Celebration Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, NY :: back to top :: Tue, May 20, 2008 WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? DVD Hits The Streets New York, NY Click here to pre-order your copy now. :: back to top :: Sun, May 4, 2008   2:00 PM Highline Revival: Publicizing The Privatizing! Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, NY :: back to top :: Sat, April 26, 2008   8:00 PM Coney Island Show! Sideshows By The Seashore, 1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Congress of curious people: BLESSING OF THE FREAKS Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir 8 pm SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE is located at the corner of Surf Avenue & West 12th Street in the heart of the Coney Island amusement park. The sideshow seats 99 people and there is a FREAK BAR (serving beer) Take the D, F, N or Q to the Stillwell Avenue stop at Coney Island :: back to top :: Fri, April 25, 2008 WWJB? Screening at White River Indie Film Fest Tip Top Cafe, White River Junction, VT :: back to top :: Sun, April 20, 2008   12:00 PM Cornell, with Students Against Sweatshops Ithaca, NY Sunday Noon April 20 at the Aurora Street Pavilion On the Ithaca Commons Sponsored by Students Against Sweatshops, Cornell Organization for Labor Action, Cornell Student Assembly Finance Committee, Ithaca Religious Society of Friends Social Justice Committee :: back to top :: Sat, April 19, 2008   7:00 PM Cornell, with Students Against Sweatshops Ithaca, NY 7 p.m. Saturday April 19 in Anabel Taylor Chapel Be Saved from Corporate Demons!!! Sponsored by Students Against Sweatshops, Cornell Organization for Labor Action, Cornell Student Assembly Finance Committee, Ithaca Religious Society of Friends Social Justice Committee :: back to top :: Tue, April 15, 2008   4:30 PM Franklin and Marshall College Under the revival tent on Hartman Green, Old Main, Lancaster, PA The Rev and Savitri D perform as part of the Conrad Nelson Fellowship. FREE :: back to top :: Fri, April 11, 2008   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Webster Film Series Screening of What Would Jesus Buy? Webster Film Series, St. Louis, MO Screenings on the 11th, 12, and 13th. Reverend Billy & Savitri D. will be on hand following the April 12 screening for an ol’time Q&A. :: back to top :: Sun, April 6, 2008   6:00 PM St. Mark's Revival! St. Mark's Church In The Bowery, 2nd Ave at 10th Street, New York, NY :: back to top :: Fri, April 4, 2008   7:00 PM Church Of Stop Shopping at Crossroads Film Festival Regal UA Parkway Place Theatre, 1075 Parkway Blvd, Floorwood, MS From the producer/director of Super Size Me, WWJB is an examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands - Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement. :: back to top :: Fri, March 28, 2008   7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Still We Speak Rally/ Critical MASS Union Square, 17th street, New York, NY Union Square Park North 17th Street & Park Avenue One year ago, at the March 2007 Critical Mass ride, cyclists, videographers, community leaders and politicians came together to challenge the NYPD's unconstitutional new parade permit rule that limits the number of people that can legally assemble without a permit. Join forces with us again this Friday to stand up against these arbitrary and autocratic assembly rules. It is up to us all to defend our rights to free speech and free assembly in public spaces. Speakers & Entertainment for the rally will include civil rights attorney Normal Siegel, Reverend Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, and representatives from the 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, Time's Up! video collective and Radical Homosexual Agenda. Check out new video with an update on the unlawful arrests of videographers and photographers documenting NYPD abuses in Times Square during March 2007 Critical Mass: http://blip.tv/file/771625/ :: back to top :: Thu, March 27, 2008   8:00 PM CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY FREE! :: back to top :: Tue, March 25, 2008 Savitri and The Rev at SUNY Purchase Purchase, NY SUNY-lujah! :: back to top :: Tue, March 18, 2008   8:30 PM **CANCELLED** Busboys and Poets 2021 14th St NW, Washington, DC **Unfortunately the Church must cancel this appearance. We hope to get to DC in the near future.** We come to the District on the anniversary of Shock and Awe, which has turned mostly to Sorrow and Anger. We'll pass the hat for gas. (202) 387-7638 :: back to top :: Sun, March 9, 2008 Art For Sale fest In Belgium Ghent, Belgium March 9-16th in Ghent, Beligum :: back to top :: Thu, March 6, 2008   9:00 PM Church Of Stop Shopping In Eugene, OR Cozmic Pizza, 199 West 8th Street, Eugene, OR Pacific Northwest tour. :: back to top :: Wed, March 5, 2008   7:30 PM Church Of Stop Shopping at Willamette University Cone Chapel, Salem, OR Pacific Northwest tour. :: back to top :: Tue, March 4, 2008 Church of Stop Shopping In Seattle University of Washington, Seattle, WA The Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir at University Of Washington's Husky Union Building HUB Auditorium. Movie at 6pm, appearance at 8pm "What Would Jesus Buy?" will be shown in the HUB Auditorium at 6pm prior to his 8pm appearance. Your ticket will admit you to this screening. Click here for tickets :: back to top :: Sun, March 2, 2008   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, NY Rev and The StopShopping Gospel Choir and The Not Buying It Band LIVE! Scholarship tickets available, write to stopshoppingchoir (at) earthlink.net :: back to top :: Thu, February 21, 2008   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM What Would Jesus Buy? Screening Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street, New York, NY See the docu-comedy produced by Morgan Sprurlock chronicling the Church of Stop Shopping's cross-country tour during the Christmas shopping season. Stop The Shopocalypse! :: back to top :: Sun, February 3, 2008   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th street, New York, NY Rev and The StopShopping Gospel Choir and The Not Buying It Band LIVE! scholarship tickets available, write to stopshoppingchoir (at) earthlink.net :: back to top :: Sun, January 20, 2008   12:00 AM - 11:00 PM Doo Dah Parade Pasadena, Pasadena, CA Rev is the Grand Marshall of the famed Doo Dah Parade :: back to top :: Sun, December 2, 2007   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th street, New York, NY shake it up with the stopshopping gospel choir and the not buying it band :: back to top :: Tue, November 27, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Rev and a glorious choir of angels at the University of Milwaukee :: back to top :: Fri, November 23, 2007   12:00 PM - 2:00 AM BUY NOTHING DAY FIFTH AVE, New York, NY parade begins at the plaza , 59th and 5th ave :: back to top :: Fri, November 16, 2007   5:00 PM - 11:00 PM What Would Jesus Buy--THE MOVIE EVERYWHERE, New York, NY The documentary you have been waiting for benefit screening in nyc on nov 16th and san francisco nov 24th Cinema Village 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY 10013 212-924-3363 Laemmle Theatres 8000 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90046 323-848-3500 Lumiere Theatre 1572 California St., San Francisco, CA 94109 415-267-4893 Edwards Westpark 8 3755 Alton Pkwy, Irvine, CA 92606 949-622-8609 Shattuck Cinemas 2230 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704 510-464-5980 Aquarius Theatre 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301 650-327-3241 Starz FilmCenter 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, CO 80204 303-820-3456 Lagoon Cinema 1320 Lagoon Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408 612-825-6006 Crest Theatre 1013 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814 916-442-5189 Cinema21 616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, OR 97209 503-223-4515 Criterion Cinemas 86 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06510 203-498-2500 Metropolitan Plaza de Oro 371 South Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 805-963-9503 The Charles Theatre 1711 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201 410-727-3456 The Movies on Exchange 10 Exchange St, Portland, ME 04101 207-772-9600 The Magnolia West Village 3699 McKinney Avenue, Suite 100, Dallas, TX 75204 214-764-9106 Regal Arbor Cinema @ Great Hills 9828 Great Hills Trl, Austin, TX, 78759 512-231-9742 The Loft Cinema 3233 E Speedway Blvd, Tuscon AZ 885716 520-795-7777 :: back to top :: Sun, November 4, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Shadow of the Shopture Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th, New York, NY Rev and the choir return to the Highline Ballroom :: back to top :: Fri, October 26, 2007   9:00 PM - 11:59 PM Globesity Festival Theater for New City, 155 first avenue, New York, NY check it out after critical mass :: back to top :: Sun, October 7, 2007   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Shadow of the Shopture revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th, New York, NY Highline Ballroom. Located at 431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 between 9th and 10th Ave (212) 414-5994. doors at 1 pm show at 2 :: back to top :: Mon, October 1, 2007   9:15 PM - 10:45 PM What Would Jesus Buy screening Sf Doc Fest at the Roxie, 3117 16th at Valencia, San Francisco, CA Billy and Savitri will be there :: back to top :: Sun, September 30, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM What Would Jesus Buy screening Sf Doc Fest at the Roxie, 3117 16th at Valencia, San Francisco, CA BIlly and Savitri in attendance! :: back to top :: Fri, September 28, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM What Would Jesus Buy screening Sf Doc Fest at the Roxie, 3117 16th at Valencia, San Francisco, CA Billy and Savitri will be there! :: back to top :: Mon, August 27, 2007   12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Church of Stop Shopping at Burning Man Burning Man, Black Rock City, Black Rock Desert, NV See you on the Playa :: back to top :: Sat, August 25, 2007   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Haus der Kulturen der Welt/ Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Reverend Billy and a choir of seven will be in Berlin for one week, various actions and performances throughout the week, for a detailed schedule see festival website or contact stopshopping@earthlink.net Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping New York Performance Artists Explore Berlin's Urban Space:: Performance (on 22 August somewhere in Berlin ...) We 22.08.2007 In the afternoon, somewhere in Berlin, Free admission Thu 23.08.2007 19:00h On the stairs in front of the House, Free admission Sa 25.08.2007 18:00h At a public place, Free admission Sa 25.08.2007 19:30h with special ticket for the "Long Night of the Museums" :: back to top :: Mon, August 20, 2007   5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Screening What Would Jesus Buy Edinburgh International Film Festival, Film House, Edinburgh, NY, United Kingdom ! :: back to top :: Sun, August 19, 2007   10:00 PM - 10:30 PM Screening What would Jesus Buy Edinburgh International Film Festival, Film House, Edinburgh, NY, United Kingdom Screens at Edinburgh Film Festival :: back to top :: Sun, July 29, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Hot and Holy Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th street 10011, New York, NY Highline Ballroom. Located at 431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 between 9th and 10th Ave (212) 414-5994. doors at 1 pm show at 2 :: back to top :: Sun, July 22, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Hot and Holy Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th, New York, NY Reverend and The Choir at the Highline Ballroom :: back to top :: Mon, July 16, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Reverend Billy reads from What Would Jesus Buy Porter House Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA Hilarious! Uplifting! Definitely worth the trip. 25 White Street Cambridge, MA 02140 Tel: (617) 491-2220 :: back to top :: Sat, July 7, 2007   12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Saving Iceland Olfus, and Icelandic Highlands, Olfus, NY, Iceland The campaign to defend Europe's vastest remaining wilderness continues. After the direct action camps in Iceland's mountain highlands in the summers of 2005 and 2006 against the Kárahnjúkar dam and ALCOA's Reydarfjordur aluminium smelter the Saving Iceland campaign moves on to bring Iceland's aluminium heavy industrialisation to a halt. Reverend Billy and Savitri D attend an annual meeting of earth loving activists. Global Consequences of Heavy Industry Saving Iceland Gathering Saturday & Sunday July 7 - 8th, 2007 Hótel Hlíð, Krókur, Olfus, Iceland Between Hveragerðis and Þorlákshafn Food, camping grounds and Creché will be provided for free or donation. After three years of struggling against large dams and heavy industry, the Saving Iceland campaign will connect with struggles around the globe. Around the world, heavy industry and large dams have displaced millions of people, mostly without any compensation. They have destroyed terrestrial and acquatic ecosystems, erased wildlife. They have polluted our air and water and are changing our climate beyond repair - in the name of progress. :: back to top :: Sun, July 1, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Hot and Holy Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th street, New York, NY Highline Ballroom. Located at 431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 between 9th and 10th Ave (212) 414-5994. doors at 1 pm show at 2 :: back to top :: Fri, June 29, 2007   12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Staten Island Peace Rally Tappen Park, Bay Street and Water Street, Staten Island, NY Join the Rally for Peace on Staten Island! Help us make this the Biggest Peace Rally EVER on Staten Island! Make plans to come: Saturday, June 30 from 12 Noon to 1:30 PM. Join us in Stapleton’s Tappen Park: Bay Street & Water Street . It’s a short ride by train from the SI Ferry. :: back to top :: Sun, June 24, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Hot and Holy Highline Revival Highline Ballroom, 431 west 16th street 10011, New York, NY The church inaugurates a great new locally owned venue in NYC Highline Ballroom. Located at 431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 between 9th and 10th Ave (212) 414-5994. doors 1 pm/show at 2 :: back to top :: Mon, June 18, 2007   8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Reverend Billy reads from What Would Jesus Buy Busboys and Poets, 1390 V Street NW, Washington DC, WA phone 202 387 7638 :: back to top :: Sun, June 17, 2007   12:00 AM - 12:01 AM What Would Jesus Buy screens at Silver Docs SilverDocs, Silver Springs, MD screening :: back to top :: Fri, June 8, 2007   12:00 AM - 11:00 PM 6th Encuentro Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, NY, Argentina Bill Talen and Savitri D will spend a week at the 6th Encuentro Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Teatro Empire with the collaboration of Instituto Torcuato Di Tella June 8-17, 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina Since 2000, our Encuentros have been a meeting place for artists, scholars, students, and activists investigating the relation between performance and politics in the Americas. Gathering between 300 and 400 participants, each Encuentro is part academic conference, part performance festival, part workshop series, and wholly interdisciplinary: it is a concentrated space of experimentation, dialogue and collaboration, featuring lectures, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, exhibits, video screenings, work groups and hands-on performance workshops. Our upcoming Encuentro in Buenos Aires will focus on body politics: the politics of the body, political bodies, bodies politic, and the relations between them. We are particularly interested in the formations of race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender articulated through body politics in different eras, geographies and imaginaries in the Americas. We understand the body as a site of negotiation, discipline, and a means of expression and meaning. :: back to top :: Wed, June 6, 2007   7:30 PM - 9:00 PM radical gospel FUNDRAISING singalong St. Mark's Church, 131 east 10th, New York, NY Join Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on Wednesday, June 6th at 7:30 PM in the Sanctuary of St.Marks, 131 East 10th Street at 2nd Avenue, in New York's East Village. Starting in October 2007 we will hold a fabulous worship at St Mark's the first Sunday of every month for three years straight. Its a great opportunity to re-double our public space antics, help activists all over, carry on our work against over-consumption, make great songs and shows, and stay really really local This is our annual request for support from the community. Recently we have played a role in some hopeful successes: P.S. 64 is landmarked, Victoria's Secret agreed to stop clear-cutting virgin forest, Starbucks stopped opposing the efforts of Ethiopians to trademark their ancient coffee names and there still is not a Wal-Mart in the five boroughs! On top of that our our show just keeps on getting better. June 6th We'll be ready with two hundred choir robes. It's the Radical Gospel Singalong. Gospel happens when the neighborhood enters the song. Like in an old musical, heads are moving to the beat in the windows. You can sing or you can clap and shout: Change-a-lujah! Tickets start at 25$, rsvp to stopshoppingchoir@earthlink.net or 718- 853-4025, feel free to spread the word and if you can't make it, your tax deductible donation to The Immediate Life, Inc can be mailed to Savitri D at po box 1556 NY NY 10013 :: back to top :: Wed, May 30, 2007   12:00 AM - 11:58 PM First Amendment Festival Central Washington University, campus, Ellensburg, WA Central Washington University hosts the First Amendment Festival, Rev and a small crew do a show! :: back to top :: Sat, May 19, 2007   1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Bike Film Festival Parade nyc street, New York, NY BIKE PARADE May 19 | 1pm Meet at 33 W 17th St. near 5th Ave Calling all tall bikes, short bikes, long bikes, regular bikes to the streets of New York. Show your colors! Ride your most fun bike: with your team, club or your biker friends. Dress yourself up and your bike. REVEREND is a guest judge at the parade STREET PARTY May 19 | 1pm-7pm 2nd St at 2nd Ave Fun bike games other fun events presented by TRACKSTAR. Footdown, trackstands, and skids for all. FBM hosts BUNNYHOP CHALLENGE w/ cash prizes. Performance by Ines Brunn. :: back to top :: Thu, May 10, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Reverend Billy reads from What Would Jesus Buy Housing Works, 26 Crosby Street, New York, NY 26 Crosby Street, NYC 10012 (212-334-3324) Subway: * W / R to Prince Street * B / D / F / V to Broadway-Lafayette * 6 to Bleecker Street :: back to top :: Sat, April 28, 2007   8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Sweat Free REVIVAL Broadway Presbyterian, 601 West 114th Street on Broadway, New York, NY Rev and The Choir stage a massive revival in the midst of a 3 day SWEATFREE conference in NYC- this show is very much open to the public and should be a rousing hot night of celebratory determination. More information on the conference's specific campaign and the days actions at www.sweatfree.org and www.ciw-online.org :: back to top :: Fri, April 27, 2007   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM The History of the Future Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY Franklin Furnace, the internationally acclaimed incubator of the avant-garde, presents The History of the Future, a one night only bash to celebrate its 30 years of fostering, preserving, and proselytizing visionary art. 8:00 PM, April 27, 2007 Harry de Jur Playhouse, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002 HONORING FOR THEIR PIONEERING PERFORMANCE WORKMarina Abramovic, Simone Forti, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and Judson Memorial Church, cradle of experiment 8:00 PM, April 27, 2007 Harry de Jur Playhouse, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002 :: back to top :: Thu, April 26, 2007   11:00 PM - 12:30 AM WWJB screens at Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, New York, NY http://hotdocs.bside.com/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=16807511 :: back to top :: Tue, April 24, 2007   6:30 PM - 8:00 PM What Would Jesus Buy screens at Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Canada Reverend Billly, Savitri D and director Rob van alkamades will be there too. Second screening april 26th. :: back to top :: Sun, April 22, 2007   3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Brattelboro VT REVIVAL The Church, 120 Main Street, Brattelboro, VT HOT BLAZING FUN :: back to top :: Sat, April 21, 2007   7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Shelburn Falls MA REVIVAL Memorial Hall Theater, Bridge Street, Shelburn Falls, MA Hot Blazing revival :: back to top :: Fri, April 20, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Rev reading from What Would Jesus Buy Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main Street, Manchester, VT :: back to top :: Sat, April 14, 2007   12:00 PM - 3:00 AM Sea of People, step it up Battery Park, New York, NY The Sea Of People project combines the dynamics of a mass rally with the expressive power of an interactive artistic installation. Following a 12 Noon Rally in Battery Park on Saturday, April 14, 2007, thousands of participants, dressed in blue, will stretch north in two columns along the projected eastern and western 10-foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the ten-foot sea level rise scenario. :: back to top :: Mon, April 9, 2007   7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rev Reading from What Would Jesus Buy Bluestockings, 172 Allen St, New York, NY The Reverend will read at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street in downtown New York City, on Monday April 9, 7 PM, free. Parts of the book recount the 2005 bus trip with the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, crusading from mall to mall, singing straight into the sinning shopping Christmas frenzy. The reading will conclude with the book's final chapter, "Letter From Disneyland Jail." Reverend Billy At Bluestockings :: back to top :: Sun, March 11, 2007   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM What Would Jesus Buy? premiere SXSW Paramount Theater, Austin, TX Our movie is finished check out the premiere at The South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. :: back to top :: Sun, March 4, 2007   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sidamo Prayers then gigantic REVIVAL at St. Mark's! St. Mark's Church-In-The-Bowery, 2nd Avenue and Tenth Street in the East Village, New York, NY Sun, March 4 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Reverend Billy, The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and The Not Buying it Band at Astor Place Starbucks and St. Mark's Church-In-The-Bowery, Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping celebrate their fifth straight week of Sunday afternoon services at the Astor Place Starbucks with a blow out after party show at St. Mark's Church starting at 5. Expect 35 singers and a seven piece band, a real wedding, and (more than ever!) a blistering pre-show prayer meeting at The Cube starting at 4. The show is a send off for Rev and The Choir as they head to the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas to premiere "What Would Jesus Buy?" Morgan Spurlock's feature film about The Church of Stop Shopping. :: back to top :: Sun, February 18, 2007   4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sidamo Prayers at Astor Place Cube Astor Place Starbucks, New York, NY wear red :: back to top :: Wed, February 14, 2007   6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Valentines Day Love-of-Justice! RedEye Grill, 890 7th Ave at 56th Street, New York, NY Join the Reverend, Choir and the Restaurant Opportunity Center of New York at The Redeye Grill. Let's extend a hand of help, of Love!, to these workers, who are bravely pursuing the basic labor rights. Come and sing, bring kazoo's and noise-makers, and come with Love. Action lasts one hour, BE LOUD. MORE INFO: Restaurant Opportunity Center of New York Center, ROCNY.org, 99 Hudson Street, 3rd floor, NY NY 10013, 212.343.1771 :: back to top :: Sun, February 11, 2007   4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sidamo Prayer Campaign Continues At Astor Place Starbucks Astor Place Cube, Astor Place in Manhattan, New York, NY Gather at the Astor Place cube, 4 PM Sun the 11th, to re-take the ancient coffee names seized by Starbucks trademark lawyers. Click Here for background information on this campaign :: back to top :: Sat, February 3, 2007   2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Rally For Whole Earth Bakery Thompkins Square Park, New York, NY Honoring Whole Earth Bakery and Peter Silvestri. Feb 3 Saturday at 2 PM, in the center of Tompkins Square. Join us to thank Peter and to pressure the authorities to cooperative in our resistance to gentrification. :: back to top :: Sat, February 3, 2007   4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save "Sidamo" From Starbucks! Astor Place Cube, Astor Place in Manhattan, New York, NY Join the Rev and East Village supporters in Thompkins Square Park to support the beloved Whole Earth Bakery! Let's dance and exorcise some cash registers! Confront Starbucks for stealing the trademarks of Ethiopia's ancient coffees, like Sidamo and Harar. Honor the destitute farmers by defeating the $4 latte! For background info CLICK HERE! :: back to top :: Sun, December 10, 2006   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Save Christmas From The Shopocalypse At Cooper Union's Great Hall The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, at 4th Avenue, New York, NY Bring a Gift to give away to a stranger - we'll start a gift economy at the Great Hall. This is the feel-good solution for radicals. Santa is just a multi-national with a beard, and a real gift economy at Christmas will change the whole year. The Choir and Rev dedicate this performance to the activist memory of Brad Will 6 to Astor Place, NR to 8th street :: back to top :: Tue, December 5, 2006   7:00 PM Reverend Billy "The Stop Shopping Gospel" Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street, New York, NY Relief from the consumerist holiday season! Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping will read selections from his book, "What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is In My Store?" and speak about surviving the Shopocalypse. In 1995, Reverend Billy invaded Times Square as a sidewalk preacher, giving sermons about the Disneyfication of the neighborhood. Today The Church Of Stop Shopping includes a 40 voice Gospel Choir and travels worldwide in support of communities, labor, and global justice. :: back to top :: Sun, December 3, 2006   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Stop the Shopocalypse-6 Borough Tour Grace Church, Corner of 2nd Street and Erie, entrance on 2nd, Jersey City, NJ Path Train To Grove Street Erie and Second Street in downtown jersey city :: back to top :: Fri, November 24, 2006   3:00 PM Buy Nothing Day New York, NY Come "Traffic Jamming" with the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and the Not Buying It Band. Bring your own music, wear bright colors, wear Red. At least wear a Santa hat. Members of the media and public with questions can contact Michael O'Neil at 917.825.3562 or michael@revbilly.com. We will pray for the "Blessings of Christmas Nothing" in Soho Square Park at Spring and Avenue of the Americas at 3 PM, Friday, November 24th. We will minister to the sick and suffering in the traffic jams around the mouth of the Holland Tunnel. This year we are Buying Nothing For Global Cooling. :: back to top :: Sun, November 19, 2006   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stop the Shopocalypse Tour, 6 Borough Tour Everything Goes Book Café and Neighborhood Stage, 208 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY 3 Blocks From the Ferry :: back to top :: Sun, November 12, 2006   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stop the Shopocalypse-6 Borough Tour The Point, Hunt’s Point, 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, NY Special Guest: Bernardo Palombo Take the 6 train to Hunt's Point Avenue :: back to top :: Sat, November 11, 2006   3:30 PM - 5:00 PM "Vernacular Spectacular" @ U Penn SPE Mid Atlantic Conference, Philadelphia, PA Society For Photgraphic Education's Mid-Atlantic conference has invited Reverend Billy to perform as their featured artist! The conference theme is “Vernacular Spectacular”: hi/low, pomo, irony, kitsch, consumer culture, simulacra, self-reflexivity. How do artists celebrate our hyper-saturated, hyper-mediated visual culture? How can seemingly outward reflections reveal essential truths? How do artists respond to our pervasive technological sharing of information? How can contemporary photo capture our (psychic) current cultural miasma? :: back to top :: Sun, November 5, 2006   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stop the Shopocalypse-6 Borough Tour Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Take the M or the R line to Union Street :: back to top :: Sun, October 1, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM REVIVAL AT THE SPIEGELTENT At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, September 24, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM REVIVAL AT THE SPIEGELTENT At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, September 17, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM REVIVAL AT THE SPIEGELTENT At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Mon, September 11, 2006   6:00 PM - 7:30 PM SPIEGELTENT REVIVAL - 9/11 At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY Give us the courage to sit in a plane that is stuck nose-first in the World Trade Center. Give us the courage to sit in that ball of fire and give us the imagination to fly backwards out of it, sliding back over the city toward a small opening that we missed, Peace! Join us in the Spiegeltent, a few blocks east of Ground Zero on the evening of 9/11, Monday at 6PM, on Pier 17 behind the Fulton Fish Market. The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will be there with the Not Buying It Band and special Peace guests Malachy McCourt, Bernardo Palombo and Jonathan Tasini. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, August 27, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM REVIVAL AT THE SPIEGELTENT At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, August 20, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM REVIVAL AT THE SPIEGELTENT At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, August 13, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM TENT REVIVAL - SWEAT FREE CITY! At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY Let's Trade Fair and be Sweat Free, in New York City and across the country. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, August 6, 2006   2:00 PM - 3:30 PM TENT REVIVAL - GLOBAL WARMING: WE NEED OUR FORESTS! At the Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, New York, NY Vicki’s Dirty Secret: The paper from the one million catalogues-a-day come from clear cut forests. We've got to stop our shopping, stop the clear-cutting! CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS, ENTER PROMO CODE "rbdc" FOR $5.00 OFF REGULAR ADMISSION! :: back to top :: Sun, July 16, 2006   1:30 PM Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's Rally Against Ratner's Skyscraper City Grand Army Plaza, Intersection of Flatbush Ave., Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY SUPPORT: • Democratic, Appropriate & Innovative Development • Permanent, Truly Affordable Housing • Sustainable Jobs & Careers • Community-based Planning OPPOSE: • Eminent Domain Abuse at Taxpayer Expense • Instant Gentrification • Extreme Density • Extreme Traffic Congestion • Privatizing Public Space :: back to top :: Wed, June 14, 2006   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Fabulous Worship! St. Mark's Church, e 10th and 2nd ave, New York, NY Featuring a new song from the choir -- ARE YOU MY LOVER OR ARE YOU MY LOGO? In this Fabulous Worship, we plan to reflect on The Shopocalypse Tour. We took two buses across the country last December - trying to Save Christmas from the Shopocalypse! Since then the church faithful have been singing and preaching in California and in Switzerland, before returning by way of Columbus, Ohio (which is like the Lake of Hellfire, only less interesting). It was there the Reverend confronted Victoria's Secret shareholders at their annual meeting. Their MILLION (stupid semi-porn) CATALOGUES A DAY come from clear-cut, virgin, boreal forests. Now back home - We have joined the Wal-Mart Free NYC campaign, trying to keep the Bronx out of the big box. The retail Devil has even set up a fake but very well funded Bronx Chamber of Commerce. Evil never rests. Will somebody give us a CHANGE-A-LUJAH! :: back to top :: Sat, June 10, 2006   12:00 PM Preacher With an Unknown God Screening In Colorado Springs Fuller Seminary WindRider Forum, Colorado Springs, CO :: back to top :: Fri, June 9, 2006   4:00 PM Brooklyn International Film Festival Screening "Preacher With An Unknown God" Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY At The Brooklyn Museum Reverend Billy and choir members will attend! Film Details: http://wbff.org/films/detail.asp?fid=663 Directions by subway, 2 or 3 train: Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum stop. Directions by bus or car: http://wbff.org/directions/ :: back to top :: Wed, May 24, 2006   12:30 PM - 1:30 PM National Day of Out(R)age Verizon World Headquarters, 140 West Street at Vesey Street, New York, NY Join thousands of people in cities across the country to protest AT&T, Bell South, Qwest and Verizon. These companies are spending $1 million a week to buy votes in Congress for their deregulatory legislation COPE HR.5252 and S.2686. Local cities have expressed their opposition to this legislation—now it’s time for the public to stop this phone company backed legislation—and demand accountability to local communities and the public interest. ACE-2,3 trains to Chambers St. :: back to top :: Mon, May 22, 2006 Rev At Limited Inc's Sharholder Meeting (Owners of Victoria's Secret) Columbus, OH The Rev will incite Limited shareholders to STOP their CLEARCUTTING for the enormously wasteful Victoria's Secret Catalog. :: back to top :: Sat, May 20, 2006 Reverend Billy und Häkeln in den Strassen von Zürich Zurich, Switzerland Reverend Billy von der Church of Stop Shopping Regula Michell und Meret Wandeler mit "Häkeln fürs Sanatorium" in den Strassen von Zürich. Fotos/Copyright: Luc-François Georgi DIE VERWERTUNG DIESER BILDER IST FÜR SCHWEIZER MEDIEN HONORARFREI. :: back to top :: Sat, May 13, 2006   2:00 PM Roving Garden Party Parade Start in Thompkins Square Park, New York, NY Please join Times Up!, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir, the Hungry Marching Band and other party guests TBA for a loud and raucous parade on wheels and feet to celebrate East Village gardens. Bring your instruments, drums, tambourines, kazoos and children to celebrate and affirm our green community spaces. The parade will end up in a garden where we will continue the party with a barbeque. Please come dressed as your favorite flower, vegetable, tree, bird, bug, clown or whatever. Bring instruments, food and seeds to share. :: back to top :: Sun, April 30, 2006   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Victoria Theatre Revival SAN FRANCISCO The Victoria Theatre, 16th st below Mission, San Francisco, CA With sermons, songs and street spectacle, the San Francisco Stop Shopping tour will deliver sinners from the deepest American vice and wickedness: love of buying and accumulating unnecessary, sweatshop-produced goods. "We've got to think outside the Big Box, children!" says Reverend Billy (a.k.a. Bill Talen). “We've got to bring this message of freedom back to our communities! We've got to bring it back into our homes and our hearts!" :: back to top :: Sat, April 29, 2006   5:30 PM - 8:00 PM After the Parade Revival PETALUMA Walnut Park Gazebo, Corner of Petalum Blvd and "D" street, Petaluma, CA Join us after the Butter and Egg Days Parade at Walnut Park for a gospel party revival. We will probably start around 6 or 6:30. Make a picnic out of it! :: back to top :: Fri, April 28, 2006   7:30 PM - 9:30 PM May Day Revival SANTA CRUZ Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir return to Santa Cruz for a blistering revival show at the amazing Rio Theatre: singing, dancing and fiery preaching will get you in the spirit! :: back to top :: Thu, April 27, 2006   8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Sebastopol REVIVAL and NoneSuch BENEFIT Masonic Center, 373 North Main Street, Sebastopol, CA A benefit for None Such School :: back to top ::