Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

A Commie Bop is an expression of freedom, verve, and solidarity. Share yours with us and let’s bask in the liberating imagination of our city!

Sign Up Opens at 6:30 before the event .Or online via Google Form. Doors: 6pm, Event: 7pm - 10pm
Co hosts: Zuber and Wes Carroll

All proceeds go to the making of a community organizer/activist independent documentary about the water crisis in West Asia.

Commie Bop is hosted by South Island Workers Culture & Education League (SIWCEL), a group that is building worker power and community in the region. Check out our other groups including United We Sing Choir, Ginger Goodwin Outdoor Club, Worker's Cafe, Book Club, and Solidarity FC Soccer Team.

About Commie Bop: 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 anti-capitalist anthems, share art that bites back, and honour 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…

Open Mic 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 and triggering language (racist, sexist, ableist, SWERFS, TERFS, etc.). We fight systems, not each other. Please respect the venue.