Canadian author, actor, and writer Mary Walsh is inviting Canadians across the country to shake (or more correctly, show) what their mama’s gave them. Up to 500 people are needed in St. John’s, Newfoundland on Saturday, December 15, to become “flesh architecture” in Walsh’s new film.
“We’re inviting people to be part of a high-def shoot where we have 500 naked people looking this way,” Walsh told CBC News, indicating the back view.
“So it’s 500 bums and backs of head, so there are no dangly bits available to anyone.”
The best part of this, for me, is Walsh’s reason for the shoot:
“The point to us is that this is who we are,” she said. “All across the country, we are only a bunch of people, and the truth of our realness is what we have. And we all have the same stuff — some people have a more expensive coat, but nobody has a more expensive bum.”
I’m urging as many non-white, non-thin, non-young Canadians as possible to sign up and take place in this shoot. Should Walsh make her way to Vancouver, yours truly will sign up to participate. For more details on the St. John’s event, see Walsh’s Facebook page.
