WHY?          Why Celebration and Theater and Art and Rite?

Well, what do you think a protest rally or march truly is?

If we trace back the Ideal element in the Civil Rights Movement,

we get from Martin Luther King, to Gandhi, and thence to our very own

transendental social artist Henery David Thoreau and his essay on Civil Disobediance.


"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?"

"Action from principle—the perception and the performance of right —changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine."

"They only can force me who obey a higher law than I."

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."

hmmmmm...okay, but there's tragedy and comedy, right?