https://community.admitone.com/commie-bop-open-mic-2025-10-07/MDU37A?

Hosted by PINDN and Wes Carroll A #CommieBop is an expression of freedom, verve, and solidarity. Share yours with us—let’s bask in the liberating imagination of our city!
Sign Up Via Google Forums or at 6:45pm before the event. Doors: 6pm Event: 7pm - 10pm Performer sign up: https://forms.gle/kXjoJbyf155p1ktY9

All proceeds go to Awi'nakola: Tree of Life Foundation A Commie Bop is freedom in motion—a song, a poem, a spell, a skit, a dance against the grind of #colonial #capitalism. It’s where creativity smashes exploitation, where solidarity squeezes alienation, and where we (yes, we, the ridiculous and unruly) celebrate our collective fire. This is a space to howl #anticapitalist anthems, share art that bites back, and honor past and future generations. #Leftist debates? Vital. But tonight we revel in the kaleidoscope of our movement, checking our purity test kits at the door with our hearts open to each other’s stories. We have license to be silly little peasants! Think Carnival mocking lords and kings…

#OpenMic Sets: Your offering does NOT need to involve a complex analysis - our day-to-day experiences put us into the crosshairs of capitalism’s contradictions. Sets should be 10 minutes or less. Please explain why you chose or wrote what you’re sharing. #Performers are encouraged to make space for audience participation - teach us your chorus, wrangle us into your skit, add call and response, or bring up Alice to play the tambourine or the triangle.

All acts should, in their own unique way, call for an end to exploitation and discrimination. This space celebrates dignity. Check lyrics for oppressive language (racist, sexist, ableist, SWERFS, TERFS, etc.). We fight systems, not each other. Please respect the venue.

We will save five sets as first come first serve before the event and open up the rest for folks who wish to register via Google Forms. NOT READY YET? Join the crowd, soak up the vibes, and cook something up for next time.

#VictoriaBC #AnarchoSocialists #Anarchists #YYJEvents #CommunityEvent #CommunitySharing #CommunityEngagement #PerformingArts #Skits #Lekwungen #Songhees #Esquimalt #Wsanec #Saanich #Vicwest #ViewRoyal #ActsOfResistance #AntiColonial #decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #CommunistsWelcome #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW

“The controversy around the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the #actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood’s creators were “using #stolen #performances”.

Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI “talent studio” Xicoia unveiled its creation at the #ZurichFilmFestival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, “and should remain, #HumanCentred. The #Union is opposed to the replacement of human #performers by synthetics.”

The “tell” is in the eyes (iris) and wispy hair.

#Arts / #Synthetics / #ArtificialPerson / #AI / #Xicoia / #TillyNorwood <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/30/emily-blunt-sag-aftra-film-industry-condemnation-ai-actor-tilly-norwood>

@ErinInTheMorn
The right has long self-identified as the protector of free speech, except when that speech has to do with race, gender, sexuality, queerness, science, (non-Christian) religion, and anything else the Trump regime deems seditious, such as being critical of the government.

Four plaintiffs—Rhode Island Latino Arts, National Queer Theater, The Theater Offensive and Theatre Communications Group—sued federal officials following the signing of an executive order which directed the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to disfavor grant applications that “promote gender ideology.” Artists, represented by the ACLU, argued this provision violated the First Amendment, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and the Fifth Amendment.

#Queer #Artists #Musicians #Performers #LGBTQ #NationalEndowmentForTheArts #NEA
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/courts-side-with-aclu-and-queer-performers

A rad reunion with local #DragPerformers Aries Moon & Leo Moon at Fall Fairfield Festival, today. We all met, last year, at the same community festival ❤️🫂😊

#YYJ #CommunityEvent #CommunityBuilding #FamilyFriendly #FreeEvent #CommunityConnecting #FreeFrugalFun #Festival #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #ClownCarBurlesque #Performers #LGBTQ #TransJoy #VictoriaBC #PerformingArtists

@PhoenixSerenity

Japan Day brings cultural celebration to Boise’s Treasure Valley

BOISE, ID (CBS2) — The Idaho Japanese Association is set to host Japan Day this Sunday, September 21, at the Gene Harris Bandshell in Julia Davi…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Communityconnection #culturalcelebration #IdahoJapaneseAssociation #japanday #Japanese #japaneseculture #Japanesenews #JuliaDavisPark #news #performers #TreasureValley
https://www.alojapan.com/1372155/japan-day-brings-cultural-celebration-to-boises-treasure-valley/