Backxwash Album Launch Show with Jodie Jodie Roger

Backxwash (Montreal)

with a special performance of her new album HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING

joined by special guest

Jodie Jodie Roger (Toronto)

Tickets $20 + service fees

Pay-what-you-can options available (email hello@debaser.ca to arrange PWYC ticket)

Licensed / all ages

Thanks to Ontario Creates for support of this event

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This event takes place on the stolen land of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. If you support our programming, please consider also donating to a local Indigenous organization or fundraiser. Learn more about this land acknowledgement and find educational resources and ways to support at www.debaser.ca/land-acknowledgement

Donations will be collected at the event for Minwaashin Lodge Programs.

COVID-19 POLICY

Before attending the event, complete a COVID-19 self-screening. If you do not pass the self-screening, please STAY AT HOME.

The following are strongly recommended for attendees of this event to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission:

• take an at-home antigen test before arriving on site. Antigen tests are currently available for free from many pharmacy and grocery store locations (find out more here).
• take at least two doses of approved COVID-19 vaccinations received at least two weeks prior to the event
• wear a KN95 face mask over the mouth and nose at all times while at the event (we will have a limited number of free masks available for audience members)
• wash your hands or use the provided hand sanitizer often

COVID-19 policy is subject to change based on government and venue regulations and guidelines.

ACCESSIBILITY

Entrance to the venue is accessible by ramp, and indoor spaces are accessible by automated doors. Wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washrooms are available in the venue.

Email hello@debaser.ca to request any further accessibility information, or to request accommodations.

Click the following link for accessibility and visitor information:

https://artscourt.ca/visitor-info-en

SAFETY

Attendees, artists and staff are expected to respect one another. Zero tolerance for violence, aggression, oppressive behaviour or language, or bullying. If you are currently implicated in an accountability process, please ensure you are respecting the space and well-being of those you have affected.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Backxwash

Backxwash aka Ashanti Mutinta is a Zambian-Canadian rapper & producer based in Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2020 album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It, which won the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.

Her work is based in the horrorcore, experimental hip-hop and industrial metal genres, and includes a culmination of themes around the intersection between faith, identity, and queerness. The poetry of her lyrics are the beginning of a cathartic healing process in which she is granting herself permission to be angry.

Her album I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES features productions by Backxwash, clipping., Nowhere2Run, as well as features by Censored Dialogue, Lauren Bousfield, Sad13, and Ada Rook.

Her next release HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING will be the final in this trilogy of albums, and is set for release on Halloween 2022.

Official Website ~ Bandcamp ~ Spotify ~ Youtube ~ Twitter ~ Instagram ~ Facebook

Jodie Jodie Roger

Jodie Jodie Roger is an artist encumbered with retelling the stories of their alter egos, Solomon Grundy and Rudi Sainte-Cloud. Their self-produced 2022 debut album Drowning Lessons externalizes Jodie’s deviating state as these two very traumatized beings, and is an unhinged exhibition of their Borderline Personality Disorder externalized.

Official Website ~ Music Links ~ Youtube ~ Instagram ~ Facebook

photo credit: Alistair Henning