The Oil Rig Gig

In response to the oil spill disaster, Kansas City artists gathered at the BP gas station on Westport Road (across from the Record Bar) on Memorial Day for the Oil Rig Gig. The event, curated by Mark Southerland, Helen Gillet, Jeff Harshbarger and Peregrine Honig, was a short act of civil disobedience to make a public point about the international ecological disaster. (It was called a “Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Healing Party.”)