Commie Bop Open Mic
About the Event
A Commie Bop is an expression of freedom, verve, and solidarity. Share yours with us and let’s bask in the liberating imagination of our city!
Sign Up Opens at 6:30 before the event . No advanced online sign up for July 2026 event.
Doors: 6pm, Event: 7pm – 10pm
Co hosts: TBA and Wes Carroll
All proceeds go to 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.
Commie Bop is now offered through South Island Worker’s Cultural Education League! Check out our Choir, Outdoor Club, Worker’s Cafe, Book Club, and Soccer Team.
About Commie Bop: 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 honour 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.
*Every month a different not-for-profit co-hosts and benefits from funds raised. Follow us on Instagram for monthly update.