The Buffalo Infringement Festival

The annual Buffalo Infringement Festival provides artists and audiences of all backgrounds the chance to come together, take chances, push boundaries, and explore uncharted territory because exciting art can happen anywhere, anytime, without a blockbuster budget. (Or any budget at all, for that matter.). (visit their website)
7/31/09 Urban Smackdown!
A fifteen poet invitational challenge, that is one part poetry slam, one part Urban Epiphany, and one part "from the mind of Josh Smith". Participants In No Particular Order: Trudy Stern, Marek Parker, Cassidy Jasinski, Ian Belknap, Robb Nesbitt, David Harter, Ten Thousand, MC Vendetta, George Georgakis, Michael Fischer, Denise Amodeo Miller, Andrea Zysk, Carl Schneider, Josh Smith & Jane Sadowsky.
to listen (58:15) or click here
7/31/09 Not Just Plain Jane
A reading of original work by poets Jane Sadowsky, Verneice Turner, and Loren Keller, at the Albright Knox Art Gallery. Part of Gusto at the Gallery and the Infringement Festival.
to listen (50:15) or click here
7/24/09 Day Two - Starlight Showcase
Liz Mariani to listen (5:13) or click here

7/25/09 Day Three - Manny Fried Playhouse
John Vines (The Hairy Ape) to listen (5:45) or click here
Lisa Vitrano (Bitch Bares All) to listen (6:20) or click here
Buffalo Sketch Comedy (Comedy/Improv Hour) to listen (7:24) or click here

Day Four - College Street Block Party
Amanda Giczkowski (5:16) to listen or click here
Renee Saracki (5:52) to listen or click here
Josephine Ansty (5:54) to listen or click here

Streets of Allentown
Pat O'Keefe (3:24) to listen or click here
John Shotwell (8:27) to listen or click here

Zombie Fest At "The Yard"
Newell Nussbaumer (9:53) to listen or click here

Day Five - 1440AM WJJL "The Go Show"
Josh Strauss (10:03) to listen or click here

MC's Nobody's Showcase
Artvoice TV interviews MC Vendetta (5:13) to listen or click here
MC Vendetta (1:28) to listen or click here
Angela Wolf (7:08) to listen or click here

Day Six - Incident At Deerlick
Mark Twain (2:48) to listen or click here
Soldier Angel (12:16) to listen or click here

Pho Malpica: The Last White Elephant
Angela Christina Lopez (10:23) to listen or click here

Day Eight - Buffalo Barfly
Amanda Nagurney (6:51) to listen or click here

Gathering Of The Rhymes
Curt Rotterdam (12:33) to listen or click here
Frank Cafarella (4:55) to listen or click here

Self Infringement
Catherine Kiersz (4:49) to listen or click here

Day Ten - Western New York Nude Models
Mike Selvaggio (6:53) to listen or click here

Doc Grady (5:48) to listen or click here

Rachel Martin (7:23) to listen or click here


Pirate Gathering
Melissa Campbell (16:01) to listen or click here

Tom Waters (6:10) to listen or click here


Day Eleven - The Closing Ceremonies and Party
The Montreal Infringement Crew (43:05) to listen or click here

Leslie Fineberg (11:54) to listen or click here
6/13/09: Allen West Festival
Jason Klinger to listen (7:32) or click here

Curt Rotterdam to listen (9:32) or click here

Chris Uebbing to listen (8:04) or click here

2/16/09: Second Organizer's Meeting 2009.
Zack Mikida to listen (2:50) or click here
Leslie Fineberg to listen (5:45) or click here
MC Vendetta to listen (3:28) or click here
Robb Nesbitt to listen (5:20) or click here
Floyd Baker to listen (6:13) or click here
8/3/08 The Largely Unexpurgated History of Scheherazade:
• Christina Wos Donnelly
8/1/08 Canadian Comedy Invasion: Stand up Battle at the Border!!!
interviews by Josh Smith:
• Kristen Becker
• Scott Thomas
• Team Canada
7/29/08
• Wading for Answers, a play
7/27/08
interviews by Josh Smith:
• Chris, Chuck and Mike of Team Shinto (Event: Meet the City) (4:19)
• Forever Rose, a play (10:56)
• Virginia Brannon Event: a play called "Floaters" (4:58)
7/25/08 Art models For Artists
interviews by Josh Smith:
• Aubrey Zich (8:00)
• Floyd Baker (7:52)
7/24/08 Merlins' Infringement Kickoff
interviews by Josh Smith:
• PC (7:47)
• Christine Wallace (0:34)
• Scotty of the Gravity Thieves.com (2:54)
• B.W.T. (5:21)
• Siege AD (4:08)
7/24/08 The Big Kickoff
interviews by Josh Smith:
• Kurt Schneiderman's Opening Address (2:38)
• Robby Takac of Amungus (4:09)
• Brrrn (2:55)
• Leslie and Diana of Euphraxia.com (2:55)
• MC Vendetta (4:36)
• Curt Bischoff (3:37)
• Kate of Belly-Esque (3:39)
• Nobody (Elect Nobody in '08) Part 1 (1:27)
• Nobody (Elect Nobody in '08) Part 2 (0:37)
• Scott Kurchak (4:13)
• Tyrone Maclin of Doin' Time Comedy (6:34)
6/21/08 interviews by Josh Smith:
• Jason Klinger (1:26)
• Kurt Schneiderman (5:28)
• Jessica Ellsweig (3:21)
• Curt Bischoff (5:55)
• Paula Wachowiak (3:43)
• Greg Sterlace (3:00)
6/8/08 interviews by Josh Smith:
• Kurt Schneiderman and Curt Rotterdam (8:40)
• Mark Madden (2:28)
• Steve Meyers (3:23)
• Timothy Englert (2:44)