Art becomes action when its intention is vested in the interest of the people, bringing SOLUTIONS TO LIGHT.  Action becomes Direct Action when we engage in an ACT of confrontation beyond the confines of the space society designates for the artist. 

We are inviting artists to participate in a juice fast, then conceive a work of performance to be performed at the festival in October. 

For centuries people have fasted, seeking better health, spiritual understanding, and justice.  An Intense Clarity comes from Fasting.  We will provide all Hunger Strike participants access to health professionals and our online resource center to support each fast. We fast in SOLIDARITY for SOLUTIONS!

The Globesity Festival is a Solutionist's Laboratory.  Through the microscope of fasting we are creating an experiment that will bring together artists, activists, intellectuals, the youth and general public.  Social, political and economic wolves have ravaged, shaken, and scattered so many of our beloved friends and colleagues leaving generations dis(sed)-Connected.  Our neighborhoods are shifting out from under us.  Eleven years ago Penny Arcade said, "There is a gentrification that happens to buildings and neighborhoods and there is a gentrification that happens to ideas."  The Solutionist's Laboratory is a think-tank of performance, inter-generational dialogue, and re-Affirmation of connection among artists, activists, and the community.  Through the Clarity of Fasting WE seek solutions.

This is a HUNGER STRIKE for a reConnection with the beautiful regenerative powers we possess in our bodies and in our mind. A STRIKE for SOLUTIONS.  They tell us shopping is patriotic and dissent is not!  Let's stop consuming for one week.  We need to come together to share and build effective solutions to the exploitative consumer culture that is quickly destroying our planet, our cultures, our spirit and our bodies.  Change starts with the personal.  Let's take back our bodies, so we can begin to take back our communities, our country and our world. 

Come join us! Contribute Your Art!  The World is Waiting to See What YOU have to Say.

WHAT: Engage in a Ten Day juice fast and conceive a work of performance (whatever that means to you - a play, a dance, a song to the moon – whatever you do).  As the work will be performed as part of a shared evening we ask that the work be anywhere from 5 to 30ish minutes. Please email a statement of intention, and a little information about who you are to
submissions@Theglobesityfestival.org. 

Go to Fasting for more info and fasting support.  All questions will be addressed!  SOLIDARITY!