Sing Hallelujah, Reverend Billy is coming!

Suffering from shopping overload? Concerened about a world rife with global advertising, multi-national control, global warming, packaging and supermarket domination in a profit driven and dirty world? Help is at hand! Reverend Billy and his Gospel Choir of Life After Shopping are coming to Birmingham as part of his ‘UK Shopocalypse Tour’.

Reverend Billy, the infamous New York-based performance artist and activist who is banned from every Starbucks in the US, makes his only Midlands appearance. This event is presented as a collaboration between Ikon and Fierce! Festival’s year round programme.

You may have read about him in the Guardian and this will be your only chance to see him in the West Midlands.
Friday 29 May 5.30-6.30pm FREE
Outside Ikon, Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2HS, UK

FREE Film Screenings
What Would Jesus Buy?
Reverend Billy and The Church of Life After Shoping are the subject of Morgan Surlock’s film
What Would Jesus Buy? (duration 92mins).

TEL: 0121 248 0708
www.ikon-gallery.co.uk
www.fierceearth.wordpress.com
www.revbilly.com

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