We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and other individuals or groups across the USA to independently “flood the zone” with creativity, for Create to Liberate, Saturday, April 19, 2025.

Think of the following idea as a pilot light for the creative fire within you (if yours needs to be lit.)

Create to Liberate Idea No. 10

Here’s a tasty idea for an April 19 art activism protest … only this time involving the culinary arts:

1. Ask ten pastry chefs, bakeries or talented cake-making friends to each donate a magnificent cake. If feasible, a real cake that you can display. If it is not feasible, get a gift certificate.
2. Conduct a pop-up cakewalk with up to twenty folding chairs in a public space. (See how below)
3. Promote the cakewalk on social media and through your community networks. For cakewalk music, use songs from Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time.
4. To participate, ask participants to donate a dollar amount of your preference.
5. Contribute the proceeds to a local veterans, farmers, or arts organization, social service agency, or public education institution that is suffering from the loss of the neanderthal federal cuts.

Protesting is fun!

Get bonus protest points: Wear the Rococo fashion of an 18th century French queen.

Get bonus bonus protest points: Be a dude who wears the Rococo fashion of an 18th century French queen.

How to Hold a Cakewalk

Arranging an old-fashioned cake walk is simple and fun! Here’s how to do it:

What You’ll Need

• Chairs or numbered spots arranged in a circle.
• Music and a way to start/stop it (live music or a speaker).
• Numbers or paper slips to correspond with the spots.
• A cake (or multiple cakes!) as the prize.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Set Up the Playing Area
   • Arrange chairs (one per participant) in a circle or simply mark numbered spots on the ground.
   • If using numbers, write corresponding numbers on small slips of paper and place them in a container for the drawing.
2. Gather Participants
   • Each participant stands on a numbered spot or in front of a chair.
3. Start the Music
   • While the music plays, remove one chair as participants walk in a circle around the chairs or numbered spots..
4. Stop the Music
   • When the music stops, each person must quickly find a chair in which to sit or a numbered spot to stand on.
5. Draw a Winning Number
   • Pull a number from the container and the person standing on the matching number wins a cake!
   • Or, the person left standing without a chair is eliminated from that round!
6. Repeat as Needed
7. Continue playing until you have given away all the cakes.

Variations

• Instead of a single winner per round, you can eliminate a few players each time and keep going until only one remains.
• Offer smaller prizes if you have many participants.

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