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. 4

For this act of creative resistance, you will need:

• several children (and a few other adults).
• sidewalk chalk.
• a container of orange beverage made from a powdered drink mix.
• cups and ice.
• an ice cream budget for all.

Organize the neighborhood kids to have an April 19 Orange Kool-Aid Protest Party outside a local television station or newspaper.

1. Let the kids know about the power of protest. Ask them if they have ever seen a protest in the news. Tell them about famous protests in history. Educational!
   
   
2. Explain to the children what they you are asking them to do on April 19 and why. If they or their parents do not agree with the “why,” don’t invite them to participate. It’s OK.
   
   
3. Prepare the remaining children to be able to respond to the question “Why are you doing this?” if asked by a reporter. Have them rehearse.
   
   
4. Ask the kiddos to explain that they are protesting the big, bad orange guy in the White House because he wants to make it harder for them to grow up and be happy. So, to make a point, they might as well pretend to die right now. They can even practice dying! How fun is that?
   
   
5. Contact the news director at the television station or newspaper the day before to let them know that some adorable kids will be arriving to stage their very first social protest.
   
   
6. Give the media the day and time. Tell them it will be a really cute story.
   
   
7. Five minutes after the cameras arrive, serve the kids the orange beverage. Share a cup of the delicious drink with the reporter! Sharing is good!
   
   
8. Then, on your signal, all the children “die.” Have adult volunteers draw outlines of their bodies in sidewalk chalk.

Then, also on your signal, everybody hops up and you take the kids for an ice cream, leaving their body traces on the sidewalk or parking lot.

Fun!

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