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The Infringement Festival is an
interdisciplinary festival open to all critical artists.
Celebrating Freedom of Expression and
designed as a real arts democracy, this festival is a critical response to
the oppressive neoliberal worldview and all its Billboard Trucks,
Televisions, flyers, advertisements, jingles, made-for-TV Wars; and the
depoliticisation of people through this diversionary Spectacle.
More specifically it is a critical
response to the now-trademarked and corporatized St. Ambroise Fringe (tm)
Festival.
The infringement welcomes a variety
of performances and cultural resistance: theatre groups, performers,
street activism, political theatre, musicians, radical performance,
marginalized arts, disadvantaged groups, and anyone wishing to
artistically infringe on the monoculture that creeps into every corner of
our lives. Raging grannies. Culture-Jammers. Entartistes. Performance
activists. Guerrilla Screenings. Speaker's Corners. Interventions.
Happenings. Do-It-Yourself. Reclaim the Culture!
Adhering to a mandate that signifies
the spirit of the real Fringe, we are returning a lost venue to Montreal.
We are starting a global trend and hope all Fringe (tm) Festivals will
witness similar cultural resistance. To prevent itself from being
co-opted, the infringement festival follows a mandate that looks like
this:
1) The festival is free for all
artists to participate in. Artists must provide their own venues, staff,
etc. (although we are working on making some venues available to all
participants at a discounted rate). Artists can charge what they
like, and keep 100% of profits.
2) The festival will be supported by
a central office, whose goal is to help co-ordinate and advertise the
events (eg: with a website, press releases, and a central gathering
place).
3) The festival will be run on a
not-for-profit basis.
4) There must be no unethical or
conflict-of-interest sponsorships.
5) The festival will be run
democratically.
6) The festival will never
discriminate. It is open to all people and languages.
7) The festival aims to emphasize
both critical practice in the arts, and artistic practice in activism. It
also aims to provide a positive environment that encourages and nurtures
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(514) 273-6929
(514) 842-1467
infringement@travestytheatre.com
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Join the infringement and reclaim
your culture!!! |
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