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OPENING PARTY+ EDGY ZOMBIE
Collectif GLSINS (France)
The festival kicks off with the launch of a feminist zombie anthology, films, presentations and, of course, dance party!
March 16 from 8 pm
@ Royal Pheonix
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J'ACTE / I ACT
Groupe Intervention Vidéo
A closer look at women's interdisciplinary performance made in Quebec. Featuring a dozen artists (often performers) and covers the period 1996-2012. Curated by Eugénie Cliche.
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SPIN
Evalyn Parry (Toronto)
An interdisciplinary performance which celebrates The Bicycle as Muse, Musical Instrument, and Agent of Social Change.
March 22nd at 8 pm
@ Sala Rossa
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JE BAISE LES YEUX
Gaëlle Bourges (France)
A clever and quirky deconstruction of the prejudices associated with erotic dancing. Three professional female ex-strippers answer the questions of a male moderator in this revealing and surpsing lecture.
March 23rd at 8 pm
@ Sala Rossa
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IN SUCCUBE
Andréane Leclerc
Holly Gauthier-Frankel
Hailing from the burlesque and circus milieus, this emerging artist duo explore womanhood.
March 24th at 8 pm and 10:30 pm
@ Sala Rossa> BIOS
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LES DEMIMONDES
The Scandelles (Toronto)
Through a multidisciplinary lens of dance, film, song, movement and monologue, exploring how arts and media profit from the scandalous cachet of sex workers, while sex workers themselves remain marginalized and criminalized.
March 30th at 8 pm
March 31st at 6 pm and 9 pm
April 1st at 4 pm
@ Studio 303
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CONFERENCES & EXTRAS
Konférence Féministes @ tbc
Conferences @ tbc
Edgy hockey @ tbc
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Edgy Women 2012
Edgy Women explores the complexity of contemporary feminism, through fun, experimental, and community-building artistic events.
From March 16th to April 1st, discover innovative and provocative women artists who celebrate women and art.
OPENING PARTY + EDGY ZOMBIE
 Drawing by Mygal
Launch of a feminist zombie anthology, films, presentations and a dance party
March 16th 2012 from 8 p. m.
Free
Location: Royal Phoenix (5788 St-Laurent)
J'ACTE / I ACT
 Vé
ronique Garneau-Allard
Historical and topical overview of performance video. Artist Eugénie Cliche was invited to focus on a specific aspect of Groupe Intervention Video's collection. The program she curated features a dozen artists (often performers) and covers the period 1996-2012.
March 20th 2012 at 7 p. m.
Donations to GIV and La Centrale
Venue: La Centrale (4296 St-Laurent)
Duration: 55 minutes
Infos: info@studio303.ca, 514-393-3771
Photo : caption of Vé
ronique Garneau-Allard's video
SPIN
 Jeremy Mimnagh Innovative Toronto artist Evalyn Parry takes her audience on unique theatrical and musical journey in her tour-de-force performance celebrating the Bicycle. Inspired by the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1894, Parry weaves a web of stories that deftly travel from 19th century women’s emancipation to 21st century consumer culture, from the political to the personal.
March 22nd 2012 at 8 p.m. (doors at 7:30 p.m.)
Price : $15 pre-sale, students/$20 regular
Venue: Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent)
Duration: 1 h 30
JE BAISE LES YEUX
 Kit Brown
A performance that undresses the gaze: three ex-strippers reflect upon their experiences, as a methodical moderator interrogates them. A clever and quirky deconstruction of the prejudices associated with erotic dancing, a most marginal practice in the field of performing arts.
March 23rd 8 p.m. (doors at 7:30 p.m.)
Price: $15 pre-sale, students/$20 regular
Venue: Sala Rossa (4848, Ste-Laurent)
Duration: 1 h 15
IN SUCCUBE
 Valé
rie Sangin A mother, a sister, an actress, a courtesan, a burlesque queen, a contortionist, a whipcracker, a singer, in a glass bottomed boat, a Succubus and an Incubus set sail on an odyssey.
Are they Demons, or dreaming Goddesses?
March 24th - 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Doors open 30 minutes before the show
Tickets :
8 p.m. - $15/$20
10:30 p.m. - $10/$15
Venue: Sala Rossa (4848, Ste-Laurent)
Duration: 1h15
LES DEMIMONDES
 R. Kelly Clipperton
Through a multidisciplinary lens of dance, film, song, movement and monologue Les Demimondes examines how fine arts, music, film, photography and the media have profited off the shabby mystique of the whore while whores themselves remain marginalized and criminalized. Hosted by Prostitution herself, a Zelig-like character who leads us through famous depictions of prostitutes in the arts and media.
March 30th at 8 p.m. - $15/$20
March 31st at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. - $15/$20
April 1st at 4 p.m. - $10/$15
Doors open 30 minutes before the show
Konfé
rences fé
ministes
UPop
More info coming soon
CONFERENCES
More info coming soon
EDGY HOCKEY
More info coming soon!
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