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An Anti-Capitalist Open Mic
✮ a @southislandworkers event
✮ on Lekwungen Territory
✮ volunteer run
✮ a home for Socialists, Anarchist, & Communists

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We're so excited to experience your Commie Bop, warm our hearts together, welcome catharsis, cozy solidarity, and some silly tom-fuckery too.

The next Commie Bop is on July 3 at the Mint. Sign up to perform or come and enjoy within your comfort levels.

ps - not in Victoria? Start a Commie Bop open mic in your town! We're happy to help you get started ❤️🌹 by @commiebop

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a year ago

OCTOBER @themintvictoria !

🔺Oct 15th: @commie bop - An open mic night full freedom expression, verve and solidarity.

🧙 Oct 16: @drama @thunes @johhny are coming together for a killer night of tunes - SOLD OUT.

🤘Oct 17: Grimshaw’s is having a birthday bash rocking out some killer throwbacks from the 80’s & 90’s.

🌹Oct 18th: A court of Thorns and Roses - Trivia Night!

⚡️Oct 20th: Calling all beings, beasts and spirits..come test your Harry Potter knowledge at themed trivia!

👩‍⚖️ Oct 22: Comedians are put to the test in front of an audience while receiving critiques from two experienced comedians.

💃 Oct 25: A fan favourite event is back once again with another stunning live flamenco performance!

🎭 Oct 27: A haunted variety show with drag, comedy, music and lots of boobs + an audience costume contest!

🎃 Oct 30: Sexy + Spooky meets Comedy + Costumes for another spooktacular evening! taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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Join us on October 15 for the next bop with @southislandworkers !!

At @themintvictoria - 1414 Douglas St
Oct 15, doors: 6pm, event: 7pm - 10pm
Co-hosts: Peter Janz and @wesconfab

Tickets are 0-$40 with all proceeds going to @southislandworkers Culture & Education League, a group that is building worker power and community in the region. It hosts Commie Bop as well as United We Sing Choir, Ginger Goodwin Outdoor Club, Worker's Cafe, Book Club, and Solidarity FC Soccer Team.

This event is for performers and 'audience members' alike! It's a participatory open mic, so even if you're not on stage, you'll be encouraged to sing and express yourself.

-- link in bio taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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23 days ago

Here we gooooooo!! September 17 at @themintvictoria

Sign Up Opens at 6:30 before the event . Or online via the Google Forms Page. See ticket link in bio.

Doors: 6pm, Event: 7pm - 10pm
Tix: 0-$40
Co hosts: @azuleho__ and @wesconfab

All proceeds go to @workersolidaritybc, a worker and labor activist group who organizes to: distribute accessible know-your-rights education, close the gap in effective labour rights enforcement, support and empower individuals with complaints, and to campaign for long term improvements.

@commiebop is now offered through @southislandworkers ! Check out our Choir, Outdoor Club, Worker's Cafe, Book Club, and Soccer Team. Artwork is by Spencer Lachmanec.

About: A Commie Bop is freedom in motion: a song, a poem, a spell, a skit, a dance against the grind of colonial capitalism. It’s where creativity smashes exploitation, where solidarity squeezes alienation, and where we (yes, we, the ridiculous and unruly) celebrate our collective fire. This is a space to howl anti-capitalist anthems, share art that bites back, and honor past and future generations. Leftist debates? Vital. But tonight we revel in the kaleidoscope of our movement, checking our purity test kits at the door with our hearts open to each other’s stories. We have license to be silly little peasants! Think Carnival, mocking lords and kings…

Open Mic Sets: Your offering does NOT need to involve a complex analysis - our day-to-day experiences put us into the crosshairs of capitalism’s contradictions. Sets should be 10 minutes or less. Please explain why you chose or wrote what you’re sharing. Performers are encouraged to make space for audience participation - teach us your chorus, wrangle us into your skit, add call and response, or bring up Alice to play the tambourine or the triangle.

All acts should, in their own unique way, call for an end to exploitation and discrimination. This space celebrates dignity. Check lyrics for oppressive and triggering language (racist, sexist, ableist, SWERFS, TERFS, etc.). We fight systems, not each other. Please respect the venue. taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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2 months ago

We love burning man because we love socialism! All of the art, inclusion, decomodification, civic responsibility, communal effort, and gifting that makes it possible show how another world is possible. After two years in a row at Otherworld we're excited to host our first @commiebop at What If! Big thanks to Really Lost Penguins for hosting us! We're excited to experience art for liberation in just two days ❤️❤️☀️💐👗🐈‍⬛✨

Cohosts: Tone Dawg Cat Lord and Wes Carroll (photo taken at What If last year 🙃 by @commiebop

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3 months ago

Here we gooooooo!! July 16 at @themintvictoria

Sign Up Opens at 6:30 before the event . No advanced online sign up this time.

Doors: 6pm, Event: 7pm - 10pm
Co hosts: @hazelisonline and @wesconfab
All proceeds go to @chcvictoriabc (Common Horizon, Victoria chapter), who are building a mass movement of everyday people. They aim to take power away from the billionaire class and win solutions to the climate crisis that secure good jobs and address affordability. This summer they are pushing for an excess profits tax on oil and gas companies.

@commiebop is now offered through @southislandworkers ! Check out our Choir, Outdoor Club, Worker's Cafe, Book Club, and Soccer Team. Artwork is by Spencer Lachmanec.

About: A Commie Bop is freedom in motion: a song, a poem, a spell, a skit, a dance against the grind of colonial capitalism. It’s where creativity smashes exploitation, where solidarity squeezes alienation, and where we (yes, we, the ridiculous and unruly) celebrate our collective fire. This is a space to howl anti-capitalist anthems, share art that bites back, and honor past and future generations. Leftist debates? Vital. But tonight we revel in the kaleidoscope of our movement, checking our purity test kits at the door with our hearts open to each other’s stories. We have license to be silly little peasants! Think Carnival, mocking lords and kings…

Open Mic Sets: Your offering does NOT need to involve a complex analysis - our day-to-day experiences put us into the crosshairs of capitalism’s contradictions. Sets should be 10 minutes or less. Please explain why you chose or wrote what you’re sharing. Performers are encouraged to make space for audience participation - teach us your chorus, wrangle us into your skit, add call and response, or bring up Alice to play the tambourine or the triangle.

All acts should, in their own unique way, call for an end to exploitation and discrimination. This space celebrates dignity. Check lyrics for oppressive and triggering language (racist, sexist, ableist, SWERFS, TERFS, etc.). We fight systems, not each other. Please respect the venue. by @commiebop

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3 months ago

ICYMI!! Commie Bop x AB Vic: June 16, 2026

The Commiebop x Anakbayan Victoria open mic was a succesful night where creatives expressed their solidarity against colonial capitalism through the arts, and where Anakbayan launched our campaign, Filipino Youth Unite Against Facism (FYUAF).

With this campaign, we aim to address the impacts of imperialism on Filipino youth and the working class living in the Philippines and in the diaspora by understanding their conditions and educating, agitating, and mobilizing the masses.

Ultimately, we plan to advocate for the Filipinos struggling globally, and it would not be possible without the support from our community. If you are curious and supportive of our causes and the work of Anakbayan, we continue to hold events to further educate people on ongoing issues in the Philippines and we are happy to accept material support.

Our shared struggles call for collective action!

Makibaka! Huwag matakot! by @commiebop

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4 months ago

ONLY 6 DAYS ‘TILL @commiebop! ARE YOU READY TO BAND TOGETHER AGAINST FASCISM?

Join us for a night filled with music and art, and to learn more about Anakbayan Victoria’s campaign “Filipino Youth Unite Against Fascism”! 🔥

📍The Mint, 1414 Douglas St
⏰ 7pm - 10pm (6:30 doors open)
📆 June 16, Tuesday

Door fee is by donation ($0-40) and on a sliding scale basis. No one will be turned around for lack of funds!

We will also be selling a limited number of merch at the venue 👀

All proceeds earned from this event will go directly to our organization’s expenses, and to our ongoing mutual aid fundraiser for a community member in need. ❤️‍🩹

If you would like to sign up for a performance (song, poetry, dance, etc.), please see the link in our bio! by @commiebop

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4 months ago

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible." - Toni Cade Bambara, African-American activist and film-maker

Join us and @commiebop for a night filled with music and art, and to learn more about Anakbayan Victoria’s campaign “Filipino Youth Unite Against Fascism”! 🔥

📍The Mint, 1414 Douglas St
⏰ 7pm - 10pm (6:30 doors open)
📆 June 16, Tuesday

Door fee is by donation ($0-40) and on a sliding scale basis. No one will be turned around for lack of funds!

We will also be selling a limited number of merch at the venue 👀

All proceeds earned from this event will go directly to our organization’s expenses, and to our ongoing mutual aid fundraiser for a community member in need. ❤️‍🩹

If you would like to sign up for a performance (song, poetry, dance, etc.), please see the link in our bio! taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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4 months ago

Getcha Commie on this June 16th!! Find tix on the Mint's website ;) Read to the end for two other updates.

The Deets:
June 16, 7-10, doors at 6
at @themintvictoria
Artwork by Spencer Lachmanec

Hosts: Mika & @wesconfab
Tix: 0-$40 with all proceed to our comrades in Anakbayan Victoria -Lekwungen ❤️💫

For this Bop we are uniting with @anakbayanvictoriabc , a progressive Filipino youth organization that organizes for the rights and welfare of Filipinos in so-called Canada & in the Philippines. Grounded in the experiences of the masses, they emphasize community organizing and political education to address the worsening conditions Filipino youth and students face. Anakbayan Victoria - Lekwungen situates these struggles within the broader issues in the Philippines, including fascism, a backward and underdeveloped agricultural sector, and imperialist policies that displace Filipinos and compel many to seek work overseas. Their goal is to advance the collective struggle for genuine national liberation and justice for Filipinos worldwide - in the belief that a strike against imperialism in one place is a strike against imperialism everywhere. Join us this evening to hear more about what Anakbayan does, and for the launch of their campaign, Filipino Youth Unite Against Fascism!

Also, @commiebop is now offered through! @southislandworkers ! Check out our Choir, Outdoor Club, Worker's Cafe, Book Club, and Soccer Team.

For those going to Otherworld - find us on June 6 (At Toone Town, 6-7pm) and June 7 (At Thirst Trap, 4-6pm) for our 1 year aniversary!!

- Sets are 10 mins max or 2 songs
- read full event description on the Mint's events page taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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4 months ago

The next Commie Bop approaches on May 21st!

All proceeds go to Victoria Progressive Electors - a working class, democratic, socialist, electoral, and community organization.

Doors: 6pm Event: 7pm - 10pm. May 21.
Co hosts: @darcy_ska and @wesconfab
At: the Mint. 1414 Douglas St.

A Commie Bop is freedom in motion: a song, a poem, a spell, a skit, a dance against the grind of colonial capitalism. It’s where creativity smashes exploitation, where solidarity squeezes alienation, and where we (yes, we, the ridiculous and unruly) celebrate our collective fire. taken in The Mint Victoria by @commiebop

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5 months ago

This month's @commiebop was fundraising for the Victoria Friends of Cuba, affiliated with the larger @cdnntwrkoncuba . 🇨🇺 🎶
I decided to perform a song I wrote about Cuba called "Socialist Paradise" paroding the famous song by Coolio. I planned on playing the accordion as well but unfortunately I realized how difficult it is to sing and play at the same time. Luckily co-host Wes was willing to play some guitar accompaniment. 🪗 🎸
There were many other great performances, including the Raging Grannies, spoken word poetry, anti-colonial stand-up and lyrics, and much more! 🎤 🤟 by @commiebop

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