MISSION STATEMENT: Whoop Dee Doo is a community arts project and live show for kids and adults that is committed to promoting creativity, learning and a respect for social diversity by providing unique, inclusive, accessible, non-conventional programming that invites a cross-generational and cross-cultural dialogue.






Whoop Dee Doo is a non-profit faux public access television show that is based in Kansas City, MO that is lead by approximately twenty Kansas City-based artists and volunteers. Whoop Dee Doo hosts live, free shows and workshops with the community and under-served youth groups both in Kansas City and in the communities we work with when we travel the show.

Whoop Dee Doo aims to engage the most drastically diverse audiences and collaborate with a wild range of performers from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams, punk bands and drag queens - all in the attendance of wide-eyed children. The presence of this chaotic mix is an awkward, yet endearing experience, embracing a huge range of tastes and sensibilities, and stripping away divisions between high and low art. While reflective of a specific critical, curatorial sensibility, it is a truly inclusive endeavor, which celebrates difference and unabashed self-expression. Whoop Dee Doo strives to not only break down barriers between age/gender/culture/sub-culture, but to form and foster unique collaborations between unlikely pairings of community members, with the intention of having them blossom into exceptional and meaningful interactions.

Whoop Dee Doo is based off and/or inspired by television shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Mr. Wizard, The Gong Show, American Bandstand, Sesame Street, Soul Train, Double Dare, Hee Haw, and You Can't Do that on Television.

Whoop Dee Doo has created commissioned projects for organizations including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), Deitch Projects (New York), the Smart Museum (Chicago), The Kemper Museum for Contemporary Arts (Kansas City), Loyal Gallery (Sweden), the Time-Based Arts Festival/Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, OR) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA).

Whoop Dee Doo has been featured in New York publications including Artforum, The Wild Magazine, Interview, SPIN, Nylon, and Rhizome.org - the New Museum blog, as well as Foam International Photography Magazine (Amsterdam), The End Magazine (Milan), Kinki (Zurich), Sydsvenskan (Malmo), Art Lies (Houston), the Miami New Times (Miami), among others.



 
 
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