POMPe in TORONTO for World Gay Shame! with DJs JNNBNNRCK, LIKE THE WOLF & perfos by MIKIKI, MLK RDDD & KITTY VAN DYKE
We heard Toronto was full of babes so we decided to take our bizarre parade of shame and dance floor witchcraft on the road. Montreal's favourite underground rad queer club kid elektro punk party, IS COMING TO TORONTO FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!!!
POMPe
QUEERS WERE THE ORIGINAL PUNKS
... FRIDAY JUNE 20, 2014
The Henhouse
1532 Dundas St. W
one block west of Dufferin
Doors: 10pm
BY DONATION $0 to $5 suggested
::: DJs :::
JNNBNNRCK MTL
LIKE THE WOLF MTL
::: PERFORMANCES :::
MIKIKI
MLK RDDD
KITTY VAN DYKE
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Hosted by
LAURA BOO
Official Photographer:
Samra Habib
of the queermuslimproject.tumblr.com
Poster by:
Johnny Forever
POMPe, voted in the top 5 club nights in Montreal 3 years in a row, is finally coming to Toronto!!! We're calling all queerdos, goth-princess-witches, punk-rock faggots, dykes to watch out for, perverts, prudes, anarcho-homos, beautiful losers, unpopular hotties, gender warriors, over-dressed club kidz and respected elders who still love to cruise: we've getting together, we're going to dance, we're going to flirt, we're going to celebrate having survived another year. COMMUNITY LIVES ON THE DANCE FLOOR and QUEER MEANS SOMETHING, EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, so let's just throw this one out there so that people know we're here.
OUTFIT INSPIRATION: take it to the next level, make me wanna get in your pants, don't hold back, make me jealous
SCHEDULE
LIKE THE WOLF 10:00 - 12:15
JNNBNNRCK 12:30 2:30
PERFORMANCES: 12:15am
::: ABOUT THE ARTISTS :::
JNNBNNRCK: Our favorite glitter punk and resident DJ, JBR is known to keep the folks on the floor guessing. He mixes a wild variety of electro, retro and indie music into a frenzy of beats that are hard to resist. A seriously busy boy, JBR spins all over Montreal on a regular basis, at such parties as: FREAKZ ME OUT, RQS, Pervers/Cite, Fckstar, BUSTED, GloryBox, Gender Blender, Nag Nag Nag and the The Monster Ball. He has been the resident superstar of POMPe since it's very first turn around the dance floor and he is our heart and soul.
LIKE THE WOLF: A favorite on the underground rad queer dance circuit and voted as #5 Best DJ in the BEST OF MTL 2014, LTW is best known for her epic sets at the No Pants/No Problem, Monster Ball, Glamarchist Lookfair, Faggity Ass Fridays, FOREVER XXXI, Femmes Fatales, Slut Island, Up Yours, Nag Nag Nag, Gender Blender, Against the Wall, GloryBox and Glam Gam events. This lo-fi high femme subscribes to a mix-tape style of mixing disparate sounds into one high energy arc of dance floor frenzy. Juxtaposing top-40 pop with scream-your-head-off riot grrl or ass-shaking RnB with hypnotizing new wave, Like the Wolf is takes big risks on the dance floor and is never predictable.
MIKIKI, the queen of 7-foot queens, the trashiest of any serious nationally acclaimed performance artists you have ever met, MIKIKI is a non-discipline-based artist who puts emphasis on community-based practices and radical queer performance. From champagne enemas to noise-music experimentations, MIKIKI is a oracle and exorcist of queer visions, traumas, victories and loves.
::: ABOUT POMPe :::
POMPe is Montreal-based queer elektropunk-inspired dance floor cruise-o-rama every 3RD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH at Katacombes, mtl's punk-as-fuck cooperative bar. It is an over the top mash of up glitter, glamour, gossip, lo-fi high fashion, dirt bag chic, wicked dance moves, and all the best pick up lines you've ever heard.
GAY SHAME is being invoked in this context as a vehicle to oppose commercial pride while still engaging in activism and community building. We include this statement from the gay shame website as a reference:
"We are committed to a queer extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of theatricality. We will not be satisfied with a commercialized gay identity that denies the intrinsic links between queer struggle and challenging power. We seek nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter the self-serving values of gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. We are dedicated to fighting the rabid assimilationist monster with a devastating mobilization of queer brilliance."
