Time to start thinking about the 2006 Festival!

ATTENTION BUFFALO INFRINGERS!

Take heed, starving artists, bohemian aesthetes, and anti-establishment art lovers of all kinds! The “infringement” movement is starting to rouse from hibernation. This time around, we’ll be infringe-ing on more than ever. Internationally, new “infringement” festivals will be spreading to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Philadelphia—and returning to Montreal, Ottawa, NYC, and other cities far and near.

Here in Buffalo, we’re starting to work on the task of building the 2006 festival, which will be held July 27th through August 6th. As we all know, festivals don’t happen by themselves. We’re looking for YOU to get involved as an artist, an organizer, a sponsor, a venue-provider, or all of the above! Here are some important upcoming dates you should know about:

NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
6 p.m. Monday, February 27th, 2006, at the Allen Street Hardware Café
245 Allen Street

PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
accepted March 1st through April 1st

FIRST FUND-RAISER/CONCERT/FIESTA:
Friday, March 31, details TBA

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS. Our organizational meetings—like all other aspects of the festival—are open to anyone who has the chutzpah to get involved. The more people help out, the better the festival will be. So come and join in.

PROJECT PROPOSAL DEADLINES. We’ll keep taking late-comer projects through June. But for first consideration for performance dates, venues, and listings, you’ll wanna get your proposal in no later than April 1st. This year our first fundraiser fiesta is intentionally timed to coincide with the submission day. So you’ll be able to come out to Neitzsche’s, put in your proposal, and party with your fellow infringementarians. Project proposal forms will be available at Rust Belt Books (202 Allen Street, Buffalo, and at our main website, too (but give us a couple more days to put them together)..

INFRINGEMENT FUNDRAISERS. These are night-long parties featuring local indy musicians, short scenes, and impassioned intoxicated artistic debates. If you’d like to perform something—maybe as a preview of what you’ll be doing at the festival—or if you’re a musician sympathetic to the “infringement” cause, SPEAK UP! We’d love to have you perform at the next fundraiser.

For more information on any of this, jcheck for updates on our website: www.infringebuffalo.org.