Mouths Wide Open first came together in 2002 to raise our voices and act on our convictions in response to the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re an ad hoc group of theatre artists, musicians, writers, visual artists, and singers. We’re also students, bookkeepers, bookbinders, nannies, carpenters, teachers, fact-checkers, scientists, bike messengers, and flea market mavens. We're committed to fostering open dialogue, creating materials that spread the message of engaged activism, and encouraging others to come together
in a similar spirit.

We recognize the need for community and organization, for resistance and action, and for the pooling of time, energy, and resources. There is strength in numbers.

Our motto refers to the engaged
responsibility of activism.
Democracy demands participation.
Our global community can't survive without each of us seeing ourselves as global citizens, committed to fighting for a sustainable, equitable and creative world.