The Big Underwear Social Tour rides again
20-five years ago, street performer and small-time crook Brady Bradshaw came up with the idea of forming a tour of performing artists based on the utterly pointless principles of the Big Underwear spiritual religion the all encompasing comical religion. In 2010-11, the first edition of The Big Underwear Social Tour was finally realized. Fourteen artists from Poland, Scotland, Brazil, France, Mexico, Germany, Czech Republic and the USA lived, loved, hated and fought on a large circus bus as they explored the dangerous terrain where money and friendship collide. They publicly celebrated this exploration by performing variety shows as they traveled a scenic route from Puebla, Mexico all the way to Panama, sometimes literaly in they`re underwear.
The Big Underwear Social Tour will ride again this year, starting in Oregon and traveling to Mexico where the artists will meet and perform in the festival CirqueClown, organized by a group called Rodara, will take place near Puebla in the historic city of Cholula. Immediately after this festival, the bus with 6- 7 artists will set out to planned events in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. As with last year, spontaneous shows will draw big crowds in small villages all along the way.
The Big Underwear refers to the "underwear" under our skins, in a sense, our souls. It is a comical religion which guides us towards a freer perspective of oneself and possible others. (It is NOT a cult, as recently portrayed on the CBS news program 60 Minutes.) The power of the Big Underwear is not serious but rather humorous, and thus, extremely serious and not funny at all. Whenever we realize that nothing, including mainstream religion, is sacred, the Big Underwear shows us that everything is sacred. Thus, while most people believe one has to make a certain amount of sense when one does something, we believe the opposite. This is the power that actually drives our bus.