The infringement Festival is an international, interdisciplinary critical arts festival that features theatre , music , film , culture jamming , street performance and visual arts , with an emphasis on activist art and work that challenges the commodification of culture.
1-1021: Conceptualized by theatre activist Donovan King , the festival was founded in Montreal in 2004 by King and fellow theatre activists Jason C. McLean and Gary St-Laurent as a response to high registration fees and conflict-of-interest sponsorships in the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival and the trademarking of the word "Fringe" by the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals. It has since spread to Ottawa , Toronto , Buffalo , Regina , Brooklyn and Bordeaux . Plans are also underway for possible events in Lockport, NY , Hamilton, Ontario and Barcelona . The festival's mandate insists on no registration fees for participating artists, no ticket surcharge and only ethical sponsors that pose no conflict of interest. This article related to
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