ANNOUNCING!

Performing the World 2024

Thursday, September 26 — Sunday, September 29
Create the Power

A question facing those of us who want to make a more humane and sustainable world is, “What happens after the demonstration (or occupation or strike or uprising)?” How do we maintain social motion, pass our values on to new generations and continue to build power at the grassroots?

Much of the struggle for social justice and human development around the world has been focused on what we’re against. For decades Public Enemy’s rap classic, “Fight the Power,” has been an anthem for millions. But what can it mean and how does it shape us if we are defined primarily by our opposition, our resistance, our against-ism?

What if instead of simply fighting the power, we focused on creating the power?

In 1968 Ursula LeGuin pointed out that, “To oppose something is to maintain it. … You must go somewhere else.”

That somewhere else is right here and right now. For more than two decades Performing the World has been bringing together groups of people from all over the planet who are creating power, building organizations, and experimenting with activities that are more humane, cooperative, playful, and developmental than those that authority imposes on us. Performing the World is an annual gathering and an ongoing networking of those who “create the power.”

We invite you to join fellow performance activists, play revolutionaries, dancing developmentalists, and those generating power at the grassroots at Performing the World 2024.