Forwarded from the IRS (International Re-Rooters Society), Provincetown, Mass.:

Following a tradition begun in 1983 when discarded Christmas trees were stood up in the Provincetown dump, the 25th Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, led by IRS (International Re-Rooters Society) Director Jay Critchley, will take place on schedule on January 7, 2008 in Provincetown Harbor. With yearly themes that purge the previous year’s cultural and political landscape, environmental degradation and the excessive consumption of the holiday season − such as Where’s the Beef (feeB eth s’erehW, 1985), Oil My Lips (spiL yM liO, 1991), and Mad Kowtow Disease (daM wotwoK esaesiD, 2004) − participants are invited to bring things they wish to discard and burn on the tree/boat.

The event is held rain, storm or shine, always on the day after the end of the “Twelve Days of Stockpiling” − the Epiphany, or Little Christmas. The IRS was founded by Provincetown artist and activist Jay Critchley in 1983 to reconnect, to re-root ourselves to the planet. The ceremony includes a procession carrying the boat to the water’s edge, singing, chanting, the Ten Commandments of 2007, and the burning of the tree on the water at sunset.

Critchley is a year-round resident of Provincetown and is a member of artSTRAND gallery. His large-scale public art project last summer, the Beige Motel, transformed a vintage 1955 motel on Route 6 in North Truro by encrusting it in sand. The recreated A-frame structure is scheduled for demolition sometime this year. His latest project, GLOBAL WARMING for a small planet will be featured in a show at the Boston Center for the Arts, opening February 1, 2008.

International Re-Rooters Society
Jay Critchley
email: reroot@comcast.net

   

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