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. 8
Our day for creative resistance and protest art is also the day before Easter.
Given the tradition of eggs—not to mention the literal and political price of eggs in America—we smile at the opportunity to bring attention to the egg on April 19 as a creative act of resistance.
Laying an egg
Bird flu is tragic. “The economic consequences have been substantial,” Forbes reported in January. “As of November 2024, the outbreak had cost the country approximately $1.4 billion, the majority of which is for indemnity and compensation payments to farmers for flocks that have been culled.”
“To put this in perspective, the U.S. poultry industry has an estimated total economic value of $77 billion.”
Still, Tr*mp promised to lower egg prices on ‘day one.’
How’s your nest egg?
In addition to being a symbol of birth and rebirth, eggs have long been a tool of protest. However, given the cost of eggs this year we wonder how else we might deliver works of art or well-crafted messages during Create to Liberate on April 19.
- Perhaps the Easter Bunny will leave plastic eggs filled with pro-democracy messages in the shrubs on the grounds of a Tesla dealership or federal office.
- Maybe someone will leave an empty Easter basket at the office of their elected official. That’s it. Just empty.
- Deploy your paper mâché skills to create an egg costume, stand in a public space to sing egg-themed songs, from Irving Berlin’s “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket” to “Egg Raid On Mojo” by the Beastie Boys.
- Consider crafting little anti-hate notes mixed with messages of love on tiny slips of paper. Use them as confetti stuffed into a decorated cascarón that gets crush over the hard head of someone who needs it. Then run like a chicken.
- Since The House of Fabergé has its origins in St. Petersburg (no, not the one in Florida) you might even develop a Russian egg-related idea that would be Putin. We mean, perfect.
So many egglomaniacs
It is unlikely that your small (or large) act of resistance will change the thinking of our nation’s top “leaders.” But others who witness your action, and actually have hearts and minds, will take note.
And that might be the best role for the arts in this revolution.
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