Life Is Watching with Rev Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir

Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir invite you to Life Is Watching, a free evening of song, preaching, earth-first politics, and collective joy at the 15th Street Quaker Meeting House.

On Wednesday, July 1st, one preacher, 35 singers, and a crowd of earth-loving humans will gather just east of Union Square to step into the Fabulous Unknown.

Doors open at 6:30 and you do not need a ticket, your RSVP helps us prepare.

This is a special show for Summer Of Ludd (SOL), a national gathering of Luddites, and is part of a summer run of musical shows with radical earth-first politics at the Quaker Meeting House.

"This summer we keep going back to the pollutingiest bank, Chase Bank, our damnation and inspiration,” says Rev Billy Talen.

The Stop Shopping Choir has spent years bringing music, satire, grief, and refusal into public space.

Annie Leonard describes their power this way: “When the singing activists hit the high notes in a bank lobby or a DARPA lab or the back aisle of a Walmart, they wipe away the veils hiding the madness of our corporate-controlled consumer-crazed society.”

The choir’s recent Earth Day action drew attention from The New Yorker, which described how, “a little after midnight on Earth Day, the street preacher Billy Talen dragged his pulpit to the new Norman Foster-designed global headquarters of JPMorgan Chase, on Madison.”

Come for the music. Come for the Earth. Come for the courage of being together in public while life is watching.

Can we get an Earthalujah?