Femme Wave + FACTOR + IRIM present: Femme Wave Fun House

Free, All-Ages Film Screening with Calgary Queer Arts Society from 7:00pm - 8:30pm.

 

*18+ FEMME WAVE FUN HOUSE SWITCHEROO*

$25 tickets ($20 advance), 18+, doors at 8:30pm

 

MUSIC

In partnership with Indigenous Resilience in Music (IRIM), we are so stoked to present our Fun House music line-up, with 50% of the artists identifying as Indigenous.

 

À La Mode (Winnipeg, MB)

https://a-lamode.bandcamp.com/

À La Mode is a dreampop duo from Winnipeg. Dominique and Ava pass the whimsical and vulnerable nature of their songs through electronic beats, electric guitar, synth, and a bit of sardonic humour. They sound like the knick knack collection you inherited from Grand-maman; like the worn out summer dress you wear to sigh in on rainy days; like the ending of an episode of Twin Peaks season 3.

 

Nite Sun (East Prairie Métis Settlement)

https://www.instagram.com/emcee_nitesun/

Emcee Nite Sun is traditionally known as Tipiskâw Pîsim; she’s a Cree-Queer-Métis culture carrier who embraces, teaches, and continues to learn about her cultural identity through her music. Her homeland is out on the East Prairie Métis Settlement, located in Northern Alberta on Treaty 8 Territory, and her Cree spirit name is reflected through the english translation of her stage name “Nite Sun”. She is a childcare worker, a Métis dancer, an entrepreneur, and is currently working on becoming an inspirational speaker.

 

Bebe Buckskin (Calgary, originally from Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement)

https://soundcloud.com/ebeuckskin

Making her way from the bush of Northern Alberta, Bebe Buckskin, a Nêhiyaw singer songwriter and matriarch, cultivates a delightful fusion of rhythm & blues, classic rock, and soulful roots that warm the hearts of all who blessed to hear her perform. She is the power through song we’ve all been waiting for.

 

Cartel Madras (Calgary, AB)

https://soundcloud.com/cartelmadras

Cartel Madras is a radical hip-hop group made up of rappers Eboshi and Contra and DJEggLad. Fronted by female rappers hailing from South India, the Cartel is disrupting the hiphop landscape by taking familiar and comfortable narratives and destroying them. Their sound fuses the stylings of Dirty South rap, house and trap to bring a depth, lyricism, and an uncompromising turnt up energy to the party. But, I mean, you already probably knew that. Cartel Madras are blowin’ uuuuuup.

 

Mamarudegyal MTHC (Burnaby, BC)

https://mamarudegyal.bandcamp.com/releases

Mamarudegyal is a young mother, and KRUMP Dancer of Empirical Freedom Dance Crew, originally hailing from Calgary AB. She represents many demographics and strives to strengthen her community voice enough to make change in today’s world. She is motivated by injustice, and inspired by diversity. She’s an absolute badass, with whip-sharp rhymes. As she says, ‘SOFT (But I’m Mean Though).’

JB the First Lady (Vancouver, BC)

https://jbthefirstlady.bandcamp.com/

The First Lady is a well-earned title for this Vancouver-based hip-hop and spoken word artist, activist, facilitator, teacher and mother. Coming up as the only female Indigenous beatboxer in Canada, JB has four albums under her belt, and an Indigenous Music Award win. Her music is political, but positive – music with purpose, music with a message. She’s been on our list since pretty much the get-go and we are so stoked to have her at Femme Wave.

 

Lowkita (Vancouver, BC)

https://soundcloud.com/lowkita

Low was born in Calgary where she began performing as a dancer at the age of 5. Her loves for dance then grew into a passion for music and at the age of 8, she began writing her own songs. After meeting another writer who wrote poetry, Low would take her lyrics and sing or rap them over beats. From then there was no stopping her. From performing in local talent Showcases to opening up for Xzibit. Low decided it was time to move and in 2012 she left for Vancouver to further pursue her dreams

 

She continued to perform around Vancouver any chance she got and along the way met DJ and Producer MrFloetic and in 2016 she released her first EP called RUDE.

 

Currently working on a new project set to release early next year she is ready to bring a different flavor with a mixture of Hip-Hop, Dancehall, and Latin Flavor.

 

Too Attached (Calgary, AB)

https://tooattached.bandcamp.com/

If ya don’t know, now ya know. Too Attached, the musical project of siblings Vivek Shraya and Shamik Bilgi, is blowing up. Since the release of their album Angry earlier this year, and Vivek’s triumphant return to Calgary as an assistant professor in the U of C’s English department, the duo is well and truly e-vry-where. And, we mean, duh. The album is a celebration of racialized anger that just happens to also be start to finish absolute bangers. Too Attached have landed on something that is timely yet long overdue, relatable and revolutionary, fun and frenzied. Above all else, Too Attached is entirely necessary. They’re taking artistic risks and making music so explicitly political and deeply passionate, it’s hard to think of another act doing the same, and going as far. It won’t be as hard a few years down the line, because Vivek and Shamik are paving a new path in our collective music history.

 

In the basement, we'll have Feminist Hip Hop Karaoke hosted by Parairie Chola Ayatollah (PCA). Yes, this Fun House is the night of your damn dreams.

 

Prairie Chola Ayatollah (PCA) is that brown clown with the big sound. Making her debut through the spoken word community, PCA has been laying down realness as a vocalist, DJ and producer in Calgary. Starting as a sound tech for Hard Knocks MMA fights, PCA has since secured a Friday night residency at Broken City with Girls on Decks.

 

https://pcatheclown.bandcamp.com/

 

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.