Infringement Festival Projects by Genre

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1 Body Painting Event
2 Cabaret/Burlesque Shows
7 Dance Performances
4 Film Screenings
1 Improv Show
51 Live Music Concerts
8 Multi-Media Projects

10 Out-of-Town Artists
12 Outdoor Events
5 Parties
2 Performance Art Projects

3 Poetry Events
1 Live Radio Broadcast
10 Street Theatre Projects
15 Theatre Projects
4 Visual Arts Exhibitions

Body Painting

The Body Beautiful (Rust Belt/New Phoenix)

Cabaret/Burlesque

Real Dream Cabaret (Squeaky Wheel)

The Stripteasers Burlesque (Nietzsche’s)

Dance

Boogaloo TimesPace (College Street Gallery/Albright-Knox)	On the Spot (College Street Gallery)	Ou Knows (Squeaky Wheel/New Phoenix/Rust Belt)
Palimpsest (College Street Gallery)	Pure Movement (New Phoenix/Albright-Knox)	Spirit Wind (Café 59)
Synaesthesia: Of (Soundlab)

Film

Ask Her to Dance (Hallwalls)	The Five Minute Video Series (Squeaky Wheel)
Subversations (Squeaky Wheel)	“The Way the Eagle Shits” and Other Eye-Opening Films (Gallery 141B)

Improv

Yes, and… (Rust Belt Books)

Multi-Media

Aesthetic Meltdown Performance (Gallery 141B)	A Brief History of Bushwick Farms (Squeaky Wheel)	Human Trials (Hallwalls)
Journey to the West (Hallwalls)	Saucebox: a Forum for Women Writers (Rust Belt Books)	Temporary Dream (Gallery 164)
The Truth isn’t Always in Black and White (Squeaky Wheel)	Virtual Reality SubFest (Hallwalls)

Live Music

12/8 Path Band (Soundlab)	Anal Pudding (Nietzsche’s/Kenmore Lanes)	The Astreos (Merlin’s)
Axis of Evil (Soundlab)	Baby Boy H (Merlin’s)	Baby Machines (Soundlab)
Bad Ronald (Soundlab)	Bare Flames (Soundlab)	Cages ? (Nietzsche’s)
	Dali’s Ghost (Merlin’s)	Deep Dickens and the Artful Dodgers (Soundlab)
The Dense (Merlin’s)	Dimetrodon (Soundlab)	The Dysmorphics (Soundlab)
	Ebb and Flow (Nietzsche’s)	Fending + Matis (Squeaky Wheel)
Flawless Presents: Words and Music (Nietzsche’s/Soundlab)	Gaybot (Soundlab)	(Nietzsche’s)
greGGreg (Soundlab)	Handclaps and Cowbells: A Klezmer Dance Party (Soundlab)	Hip Hop Showcase (Soundlab)
Infringement Kick-off Party (Soundlab)	Infringement Rock Showcase, Part One (igneous) (Merlin’s)	Infringement Rock Showcase, Part Two (sedimentary) (Merlin’s)
Infringement Rock Showcase, Part Three (metamorphic) (Merlin’s)	Little Dipper (Merlin’s)	Locust Sympathizer (Nietzsche’s)
Milkfat (Soundlab)	Musical Brunch (Nietzsche’s)	Open Lab (Soundlab)
The Pamplemousse Explosion (Nietzsche’s)	Pastyme with Good Companye (Days Park/Nietzsche’s/Albright-Knox)	Paul & Pat (Soundlab)
Pollock (Merlin’s)	The Portable Folk Band (Soundlab)	Post (Soundlab)
Praying for Oblivion (Nietzsche’s)	Preserving Our American Way of Life (Soundlab/Hardware Café)	Pseudo Slang (Soundlab)
The Purgatory Kings (Kenmore Lanes)	Qualia Performance (Nietzsche’s)
Rock-n-Bowl 2006 (Kenmore Lanes)		Silverback Gorillas Raping Emo Kids (Soundlab)
Ski Mask and the Bucketmen (Soundlab)	The Sonorous Smorgasbord at Soundlab (Soundlab)	The Staylows (Merlin’s)
this. (Nietzsche’s)	Weather Machine (Soundlab)	Z. Mann Zilla and the World’s Largest Trio (Soundlab)

Out of Town Acts

Baby Boy H (Boston, Massachusetts)		Car Stories (Montreal, Quebec)
Ebb and Flow (Barrie, Ontario)	Francis Halin chante les poètes québécois (Montreal, Quebec)	Gaybot (Rochester, New York)
	Love Letters (Orlando, Florida)	The Pamplemousse Explosion (Montreal, Quebec)
The Portable Folk Band (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)		The Sky Could Fall (Montreal, Quebec)
this. (Toronto, Ontario)

Outdoor Events

Allentown Telecommunications System (Elmwood Avenue)	Can You See the Forest for the Trees? (Elmwood & Forest)	Car Stories (location TBA)
Congenitalia: Tales of Somatic Idiosyncrasy (Days Park)	Francis Halin chante les poètes québécois (Days Park)	Laughing at Clouds, A Paen to Global Warming (Days Park)
Pastyme with Good Companye (Days Park)	Preserving Our American Way of Life (in front of Hardware Café)	Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (in front of Hardware Café)
Sincerity Forever (Quaker Bonnet rear courtyard)	The Staircase (fire escape out the Nickel City Co-op)	W3 (Quaker Bonnet rear courtyard)

Parties

Closing Night Party (Nietzsche’s)	Handclaps and Cowbells: A Klezmer Dance Party (Soundlab)	Infringement Happy Hour (La Tee Da, 10-11 every night)
Infringement Kick-off Party (Soundlab)	Summer Photo Show Closing Night Reception (College Street Gallery)

Performance Art

Foundation of Thebes: A Soundpainting Opera (Nietzsche’s)

The Sky Could Fall (Days Park)

Poetry

…And So I Moved to Buffalo (Rust Belt Books)

Francis Halin chante les poètes québécois (Days Park)

Returned American Products (College Street Gallery)

Puppetry

Petites Choses (small things) (New Phoenix)

Underground, Over the Moon (Crane Library)

Radio Broadcast

The Zero Hour (Rust Belt/Albright-Knox)

Street Theatre

Allentown Telecommunications System (Elmwood Avenue)	Can You See the Forest for the Trees? (Elmwood & Forest)	Car Stories (location TBA)
Congenitalia: Tales of Somatic Idiosyncrasy (Days Park)	Laughing at Clouds, A Paen to Global Warming (Days Park)	Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (in front of Hardware Café)
Sincerity Forever (Quaker Bonnet rear courtyard)	The Staircase (fire escape out the Nickel City Co-op)	W3 (Quaker Bonnet rear courtyard)
The Wandering Observer (streets of Allentown)

Theatre

Akhmatova (Squeaky Wheel)	Beirut (El Buen Amigo)	Dirty Laundry (New Phoenix)
	Fred's Requiem (Squeaky Wheel)	Holy Crap (New Phoenix)
The Immaculate (New Phoenix)	Love (of Christ) Letters (College Street Gallery)	My Life as an Ape (Squeaky Wheel/Albright-Knox)
No Title (New Phoenix)	Queen Kong (Rust Belt)	Ramona and Juliet (Nietzsche’s)
Red Clay (New Phoenix)	The Respectful Prostitute (New Phoenix)	This is Our Song (Rust Belt)
Zoo Story (Rust Belt)

Visual Arts

Alternative Art Show (Gallery 141B)	Further (Rust Belt Books)
Summer Photo Show Closing Night Reception (College Street Gallery)	We Are (multiple venues)