🌀 SHAMEFEST 2025: THE MACHINE IS HUNGRY, FEED IT YOUR FEELINGS 🌀
In the grand cosmic joke that is existence, frailty is the punchline and fatality the rimshot. To be soft is to be crushed, to be open is to be devoured, to be vulnerable is to be a walking banquet for the wolves of the world. And yet! In this absurdity, we find the great imperative: to forge ourselves anew, to sandpaper our nerves into steel wire, to laugh in the face of entropy with a mouth full of broken teeth.
🔥 FOR FAGGOTS, FREAKS, DRUNKS, & JUNKIES🔥
📅 August 1–5
📍 Vancouver, BC
Welcome to the Department of Emotional Garbage Collection. Regret has been rescheduled. Forgiveness is pending approval. Jimmy is on snacks. Jimmy is the snack.
Thursday, August 1 – 7:00 PM
📍 Vines Art Gallery
Opening Ceremony with Cease Wyss
Visual Art Show featuring Greta Boney, Julia Wong, Min Bai-Woo, TJ Felix, Jaz Whitford, Soloman Chiniquay, Jesse Blanchard
Naloxone Training Workshop with the Drug User Liberation Front
Friday, August 1 – 7:30 PM
📍 The Rickshaw Theatre
Live performances by Backxwash, Dear Lucy, Prado Monroe, AKAsublime, Aster Dawn
Friday, August 1 – 11:00 PM
📍 Location TBA to ticket holders
Super Secret Selectors
Saturday, August 2 – 7:00 PM
📍 Fortune Sound Club
Early Show: Dreamcrusher, Devours, Citadel
Saturday, August 2 – 10:00 PM
📍 K.W. Studios
Late Show: Sophia Stel, Maskara, Hot Snack
Sunday, August 4 – 3:00 PM
📍 Red Gate
Market & BBQ with vendors TBA
Sunday, August 4 – 8:30 PM
📍 Red Gate
8:30 PM: Live performances by Bib, Kleener, Blimp, The Heterosexuals, Girlwife
Dress code: Subpoenaed by your past self.
Mood: Procedural grief with glitter on it.
Price: Cheaper than an apology, more expensive than a secret.
Come because it's art. Stay because you can't stop crying in the bathroom. Good boy Jimmy. Good lineup. Good shame.
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Fest Pass: $80 (Only 40 available)
Early Bird Fest Pass: $70 (Only 40 available)
20 PWYC Fest Passes will be released closer to the fest.