Infringement Festival Hip Hop Showcase
Infringement Festival Hip Hop Showcase, with: Drop D, PsynLanguage, JAY MANAFEST, Nickolai Kush Saturday, June 21 @ 9 pm / Samedi le 21 juin @ 21h LE P’TIT CABARET @ 183 Saint Paul Est pay-what-you-can / dons
June 21 juin
JAY MANAFEST
JAY MANAFEST is an MC and spoken word artist from Montreal. Heavily inspired by early 90’s east coast hip hop and politcally charged music of all types, JAY MANAFEST uses music as a platform to speak out against injustice and shed a brighter vision for the future. He’s currenly halfway…
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L’USINE 106U
L’USINE 106U est une galerie d’art autogérée spécialisée dans la figuration hors-normes. Présentant chaque mois des expositions collectives d’une trentaine d’artistes, son mandat est d’abolir les barrières entre les artistes et le public, qu’elles soient hiérarchiques, intellectuelles ou monétaires. L’USINE 106U @ 160 Roy Est Durant toute le festival http://www.usine106u.com/
PsynLangwage
DaDestroya, Negrosapien and HemmRage were raised in the quiet town of Chateauguay, Quebec. As children, they recorded songs and radio broadcasts amongst themselves for fun on tape cassettes. In the 1990s, the three brothers had a chance encounter with the HipHop legend, Special Ed who coincidentally, also happened to be…
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Infringement Film Screenings
How can film be used as a medium to affect social change? And how can the internet change the way activists impact their audiences? Film for Social Change will explore a diverse range of activist viral video, from a culture jam against the working conditions at American Apparel stores (featuring…
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Mona Lissa & The Brink
MONA LISSA & THE BRINK skillfully present urban ballads that are intimate and jazzy to the bone! This Montreal-based band is the brainchild of Mona Lissa—gifted singer/songwriter and keen observer of life’s ups and downs. This daughter of an East Indian father and a German mother embodies a mélange of…
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Critical Report from the World Fringe Congress
Critical Report from the World Fringe Congress When infringement festival founder Donovan King was invited to the first-ever World Fringe Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, he thought there had been a mistake! With over 50 so-called “Fringe” Festivals in attendance, including those named after or run by corporations, the infringement provided…
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Public Reading: John Faithful Hamer’s “Blue Notes”
Local professor and philosopher John Faithful Hamer will read a selection of his works from Blue Notes, a collection of essays, notes, and observations, inspired in part by his home city of Montreal. Hamer, whose work in Blue Notes began as a series of Facebook postings, was warned by publishers…
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Drop D
Electronic/hip hop fusion guaranteed to keep the dance floor moving with high energy and deep valleys to groove out to. Saturday, June 21 / Samedi le 21 juin @10 pm / 22h Infringement Hip Hop Show: Drop D, PsynLanguage, JAY MANAFEST LE P’TIT CABARET @ 183 Saint Paul Est
The Art of Burlesque (The Buffalo Burlesque Collective)
Bumping and grinding for social change, blurring gender barriers, liberating, and celebrating all body types with the timeless art of burlesque. Cat Sinclair is a Burlesque Dancer and performance artist with The Stripteasers Burlesque in Buffalo NY, she has been bumping and grinding for social change and breaking down gender barriers since…
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