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The fifty fifty presents Soft Plastics feat. Carey Mercer LIVE!

Fri. June 5th 2020 the fifty fifty arts collective By Donation

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The fifty fifty presents Soft Plastics feat. Carey Mercer LIVE!

the fifty fifty arts collective presents our first livestream concert event of t...
Event is live streamed / online. Online Event
8:00pm - 10:00pm By Donation

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Soft Plastics

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the fifty fifty arts collective
the fifty fifty arts collective, located in unceded and occu...
Open / Operational

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the fifty fifty arts collective presents our first livestream concert event of the year featuring

SOFT PLASTICS
https://softplastics.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SoftPlastics5Dreams/
Introducing Soft Plastics, the new project and inspiration of Carey Mercer, former songwriter and leader of Frog Eyes. The songs on their upcoming record, 5 Dreams, were written by Carey Mercer in the fall and winter of 2018–2019, mere months after the dissolution of Frog Eyes, the band Mercer shared for eighteen years with Mel Campbell and a rotating cast of musicians. The influences on 5 Dreams are post-punk, new wave, mariachi, new-wave mariachi, dub, hip hop, goth-rock, taking cues and according gobs of respect to Blixa Bargeld, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Talk Talk, Happy Mondays—all rung through the grime of a northern port city. It’s the interplay of the drums and the gelling effect of the synthesizer, the baritone running downhill with the bass, the trumpets and pedal steel filling up the gaps. Mercer says: “The songs aren’t tied to a cohesive theme, but they do exist in a land that is deeply wet, dark, flooded—occasionally a gilded sun-beam comes out of nowhere and the song just stops and stares in bloody awe at what we are given, what we might see.”

the show is free and funded by Feed the Arts in the CRD.

If you appreciate the performance and would like to send a donation, the artist would prefer that you send them to the following organizations instead. They represent Black communities in North America and beyond. Please take a moment to browse these links and learn how to support the greater community.

https://blacklivesmatter.ca/
https://blacklivesmattervancouver.com/
Bail funds: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR1-URJjHaQqQkQb15_O1PU2PdDSGRIrqb-iwndp57PNZduqNmaqnlbu4KU&urp=gmail_link

The show will be hosted on our Twitch profile assuming everything goes as planned! This is our first one so be patient the night of. We may have some technical glitches.

Follow this link for the live broadcast.
https://www.twitch.tv/fifty_fifty_arts_live

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the fifty fifty arts collective
2516 Douglas Street
Art Gallery
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The fifty fifty presents Soft Plastics feat. Carey Mercer LIVE! - Nov 5th @ the fifty fifty arts collective

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