Femme Wave Fun House

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UPDATE: Pre-sale tickets are no longer available online, but plenty of tickets will be available at the door for all events. Be sure to show up early to guarantee entry!

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WE'RE BACK with the Femme Wave Fun House! We've got a full night of music and visual art on every level of the legion. You won't want to miss this staple of Femme Wave.   We're proud to once again partner with Indigenous Resilience in Music (IRIM) and DrumBeat Productions on this programming.   This program is funded by FACTOR with the support of Canada’s private radio broadcasters.   *****18+ FEMME WAVE FUN HOUSE ***** $30 tickets ($25 advance), 18+   MUSIC **** Upstairs ****   9PM Krill Williams Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   This brand new local band are well on their way to establishing themselves as some of the finest musicians in town, and are ushering in a new crop of fresh faces and sounds. They create introspective, lush soundscapes for audiences to bask in. They are dreamy, raw and ready to show you what they’re made of! https://soundcloud.com/krill-williams-573261508   10PM Quiet Groove Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   Quiet Groove is a female fronted slowcore/shoegaze project. Formerly known as Paranoid Parents, vocalist Ana Villanueva brings together a collage of shimmering sounds, singing drones, and the occasional haunted CASIO tone. Her backing band features members of Soft Cure, Slut Prophet and Calisthenics. https://quietgroove.bandcamp.com/   11PM Paige Drobot Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, MB   Paige Drobot is as wise and comforting as your grandma, but edgy enough to also be your cool older sister who won’t let you borrow her clothes but you steal them anyway. Paige is an open book. She translates emotions into music in a completely transparent way, yet vague enough that anyone can relate. To all you freak-folk fans out there, prepare to have an eargasm! Between Paige’s raspy, powerful voice and the brilliant instrumentals, you won’t know what hit you. https://paigedrobot.bandcamp.com/     12AM The Torchettes Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   This local vocal powerhouse has been taking the city by storm. Whether paying tribute to sisterhood for International Women's Day at the National Music Centre, rocking out at East Town Get Down, or tearing up the stage at the Calgary Folk Music Festival, The Torchettes have made themselves a staple in the local scene. The phenomenal vocals and harmonies of Deicha Carter, Chenelle Roberts and Sydney Zadravec - combined with the infectious familiarity of 60’s rock - soul and fuzz covered grunge guitar - this divine mix will have you shaking your groove thing all night long. They played Femme Wave way back in year one, and we’re so proud of all their successes and happy to welcome them back! https://thetorchettes.bandcamp.com/     **** Downstairs ****   9:30PM Hua Li Traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:kal, Montréal, QC   Are you ready to get shook?! This Montreal-based hip-hop experimenter will shake your frail ass to the floor. Her unique R&B style and hard-hitting, revolutionary rap cuts to the bone. She pours her heart out and you can feel it. Hua Li is Canada’s only half-Chinese, half-militant, half-rapper and we are so stoked to see her tear it up at Femme Wave. Get those arms flailing! Catch her debut LP Dynasty out the 20th of September. https://huali.bandcamp.com/   10:30PM Eekwol Treaty 6 Territory, Saskatoon, SK   We had the pleasure of seeing Eekwol absolutely tear up stages at this year’s Calgary Folk Music Festival with her rapping partner in crime, T-Rhyme, and we’re so psyched to have her back in Calgary for Femme Wave. Eekwol is a member of Muskoday First Nation and brings a lifelong background of Plains Cree traditional music and culture to her hard-hitting, groundbreaking brand of hip hop. She’s a master of the mic as well as a community organizer and activist. Truly, we are not worthy but we are #blessed to have her hit our festival stage. https://twitter.com/eekwol   11:30PM Amy Hef Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   Who the Hef is Amy Hef? Let us introduce you to your new sugary-sweet pop crush! Amy’s been compared to artists like Pink, Tegan and Sara and Roxette, with her feel good, nostalgic vibe that’ll remind you of your early 2000’s heart throb. You may have already heard her catchy material on MTV, Keeping up with the Kardashian’s or Vanderpump Rules or maybe you’ve seen her amp up the crowd at a pride celebration in a major Canadian city! NO BIG DEAL! https://soundcloud.com/amyhef   12:30AM Haviah Mighty The Dish With One Spoon Territory, Toronto, ON   When Haviah Mighty’s debut solo record The 13th Floor came our way back in Spring, it only took about three bars of album opener ‘In Women Colour’ for us to fall in love and know she was perfect for Femme Wave. A member of feminist rap collective The Sorority, Haviah is one of Canada’s best up and coming emcees. Don’t just take our word for it - she WON the Polaris Prize this year. Through her music, she brings to light her personal struggles with, and triumphs over, racism, classism and sexism. She’s at the forefront of a new class of woke feminist rappers and Femme Wave will also be her debut as a solo artist in Calgary. https://haviahmighty.bandcamp.com/   **** Basement DJ's ****   9PM Molly Fi Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   A Calgary community icon! Molly Fi is a certified A-list performer, social motivator and community organizer. She founded Girls on Decks, Canada’s longest running all- girl DJ collective, in 2003 and has been DJing for almost two decades with no signs of slowing down. “Calgary’s First Lady of Breaks” was awarded Runner-Up for Best of Calgary’s best DJ award in 2018 & 2019 and has been tearing it up this summer – with performances at Calgary’s biggest electronic festival, Chasing Summer and North America’s #1 electronic festival, Shambala. We are stoked AF to have her take us on a glorious musical trip! https://soundcloud.com/mollyfi   10PM Kimleestar Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, AB   Calgary-based DJ Kimleestar is killing the game! She’s a fresher face to the local DJ roster, but is already blowin’ up the scene in a beautiful and memorable way. Earlier this summer she played Calgary’s first ever QTBIPOC dancehall party and it was FIRE! When she spins, you can’t help but move – she’s a genre shaking and dancefloor quaking queen and a celebrator of all things Afrocentric. Get prepared to sweat! https://www.mixcloud.com/kimleestar/   ART PROJECTIONS by Lindsey Rewuski Lindsey Rewuski is a multi-media artist and graphic designer based out of Saskatoon, SK. Her projection-based work is inspired by early light art, psychedelic light shows, visual poetry and expanded cinema, where she seeks to engage the viewers neuro-responses through synesthesia and synchronization. Exploring the physical process of making non-computer generated moving images, Rewuski creates live visual expressions of music, incorporating coloured oils, chemicals, organic materials, textiles, and other found objects into live performances. Rewuski has projected light at festivals, art spaces, and on stages across Western Canada, including Forthwith Festival (Winnipeg), Nuit Blanche (Saskatoon SK), Art in the Streets (Lethbridge AB), the_SYNCHRESIS_series (Edmonton AB), Pretty Good Not Bad (Victoria BC), and more. You can find her work on Instagram at @ghosthousestudio.     ***All programming and set-times are subject to change***   ~*~Festival-Wide Visual Arts Programming~*~
The Abortion Cookbook: collaborative zine project by Arcana Shanks, Nicole Mary, and Taylor Harder
See it throughout Femme Wave

In light of anti-abortion laws being passed in the United States and pledges to ban abortion in Canada, Arcana Shanks, Nicole Mary, and Tayor Harder have come together to collaborate on a zine that is relfective of their feelings within the current state of global politics regarding bodilty autonomy. The Abortion Cookbook is a compilation of recipes and anecdotes compiled from the personal experiences of the artists alongside history and external resources regarding heral-induced abortions. Though this project is intended to be a source of empowerment for individuals who are resisting the systemic misogyny regarding traditional folk remedies and bodily health, it is not a how-to guide, but a reminder that a person will always have control over their body regardless of what their government dictates.   The Abortion Cookbook will be available for free from all Femme Wave venues. A web page containing more resources and information will be available for viewing at femmewave.com.

I could be writing about you, but I’m writing about me: Collaborative Project by Hannah Doerkson and Sophia Bartholomew
Festival-Wide posters, Instagram takeover

I could be writing about you, but I’m writing about me is an inquiry into creation of entry-points for human connection and emotional support in the digital age. This project is to be realized during a two-week Instagram residency and a subsequent series of posters to be displayed throughout Calgary, AB during Femme Wave Festival. Tune into www.instagram.com/femmewave.visualarts from October 24 to November 7 to view content from sophia and Hannah as they create this work, and keep an eye out from November 7 - 10 to see their posters throughout the festival.   sKIN: Photography by Alia Aluma
See it throughout Femme Wave

sKIN is a traveling photography exhibition by Alia Aluma that questions the ways that we compartmentalize and separate the inherent intersectionalities of marginalized identities and bodies with expository softness. Featuring models of diverse genders and racial identities arranged in ways which remove their respective identities, Aluma’s photographic works critique the judgements faced by people of queer and racialized identites. Through the use of pure, transparent fabrics draped over their bodies, Aluma challenges the notion that marginalized identities are inherently uncomfortable or confusing, countering these judgement with gentle form and tender beauty - terms not often used to describe communities facing otherness.

sKIN will be available for viewing at various venues throughout Femme Wave Festival’s November 7-10 programming.   ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair accessible via the rear entrance, access through the alley – ask security staff for assistance. The basement can be accessed via an elevator on the main floor. Wheelchair accessible washrooms available.   LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Femme Wave acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley First Nations. Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.   SAFER SPACES Femme Wave is committed to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.