This Friday from 5 to 10 PM, the Experimental Station hosts a taping of the Kansas City-based faux-public access show Whoop Dee Doo. This special event comes to Chicago as part of the Smart Museum's Heartland exhibition, featuring artists working in and responding to the American Midwest.

Admission is free, but seating is limited; priority will be given to those attending in costume.

Whoop Dee Doo is a kid-friendly faux public access television show featuring pre-planned performances accompanied by active audience participation. Structured like a high school talent show, Whoop Dee Doo highlights a diverse array of performers from the community in which it temporarily resides, and engages audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Program components have also included skits, game shows, contests, and dance intermissions.

Their performers' ages have ranged from three to sixty-five years, and acts performing on the show itself have ranged from professional drill teams to opera singers, break-dancers, Celtic bagpipers, drag queens, punk bands, science teachers, tap dancers, and dog trainers. We have highlighted twelve year-olds in game shows on the same stage as Amanda Lepore, and pancake-eating contests follow live R&B music videos in-the-making. Civil War re-enactors cut of faux bloody limbs as educational tools, while West-African dance troupes, bloodhounds, and Christian Mimes await their turn on stage.