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Join us and Michelle Erfer, The Bunker on Zoom for an artist talk on June 24!
Michelle has been working in artist representation for a decade and one of the most common questions she receives from artists is how to know if representation is the right choice for them and how to know when it’s the right time to begin working with an agent. We’ll be hearing about the ways that agents might be able to help an artist reach their goals, how working with an agent can either help or hinder your growth and how to go about finding the right person to work with.
About Michelle:
Michelle Erfer is a Brooklyn-based cultural producer and booking agent with 10 years of artist management experience. She directs the Artist Representation program at Beyond Booking, Inc., the 501c3 organization that operates The Bunker NY. With a background in both music and nonprofit administration, Michelle is grateful to be supporting a roster of 31 artists.
⛓️The link for this meeting is in our bio! See you then💐
Join us and Michelle Erfer, The Bunker on Zoom for an artist talk on June 24!
Michelle has been working in artist representation for a decade and one of the most common questions she receives from artists is how to know if representation is the right choice for them and how to know when it’s the right time to begin working with an agent. We’ll be hearing about the ways that agents might be able to help an artist reach their goals, how working with an agent can either help or hinder your growth and how to go about finding the right person to work with.
About Michelle:
Michelle Erfer is a Brooklyn-based cultural producer and booking agent with 10 years of artist management experience. She directs the Artist Representation program at Beyond Booking, Inc., the 501c3 organization that operates The Bunker NY. With a background in both music and nonprofit administration, Michelle is grateful to be supporting a roster of 31 artists.
⛓️The link for this meeting is in our bio! See you then💐
Some snippets from our International Drone Day on May 30th with Venus Fest and 🛸
Featuring talents:
Auto Feeder ⛓️Esssena ⛓️fossa séu ⛓️Grief Debt⛓️ Mira Martin-Gray ⛓️Shemona ⛓️three6marilyn⛓️ Xodkaar
“A drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect where a note or chord is continuously sounded”
Thank you everyone for filling the room with so much noise and energy last Saturday.
Special shoutout to .world providing us the amazing space🎉
05/25/2026
MORE NOISE PLEASE & VENUS FEST PRESENT
FOSSA SÉU
is an experimental electronic and free jazz performer, based in Toronto, Canada. Fossa’s performances unfold through experimental vocals, earthy grooves, cosmic electronic distortion, and embodied interpretations of rhythm, influenced by 70s jazz fusion and vocal percussion. Beyond his solo, Fossa’s latest collaborative project, Down Out Consort focuses on collective improvisation along with deep listening practices and the creation of community within Toronto’s free improv scene. The ensemble is influenced by the Afrocentric and diasporic backgrounds of its artists, which informs their collective sonic dialogues and exploration on stage and beyond.
May 30, 2-6PMworld
〰️ Come drone with us ➰
🎟️🔗 In Bio
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05/23/2026
MORE NOISE PLEASE & VENUS FEST PRESENT
GRIEF DEBT
named for every loss incurred without due grieving, is a visually striking experimental sound and performance art ritual that strives to pay what is owed. The project consists of Stephen Schooley, a classically trained pianist/composer of noise and techno (Honeymoon Phase), and artist unitnumbernine who recently decided they would like to writhe and wail in a sea of witnesses.
GRIEF DEBT made their debut in October 2025 with their self-titled EP. Their performances dovetail resistance and surrender through harsh pleadings in poetry and broken time.
May 30, 2-6PM
Come drone with us ➿world
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05/22/2026
MORE NOISE PLEASE & VENUS FEST PRESENT
XODKAAR
is a project based on circular conversations between man and machine wherein percussive sounds are toyed with using a telescopic actuator. Shima is an Iranian power violence enthusiast and toronto based artist and organizer whos work often revolves around impermanence and community based values.
May 30, 2-6PMworld
〰️ Come drone with us ➰
🎟️🔗 In Bio
Show Poster by
05/21/2026
MORE NOISE PLEASE & VENUS FEST PRESENT
THREE6MARILYN
(they/any) is an artist whose practice centers on rhythm, specifically sound and poetry. they have a background in teaching music, and an education in sociology and gender studies. marilyn plays in multiple bands across the city, including but not limited to not a band, martian crisis unit, output 1:1:1, and teething. they also founded spectrum soundbath in 2020 which is a collaborative community based sound meditation practice. they write poetry under the moniker queertamil and can be found on bandcamp under threesixmarilyn. land back always and death to empire.
May 30, 2-6pmworld
➿ Come drone w/ us ➿
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VLOOM: A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM
💠 FREE / SLIDING SCALE $5-$25
💠 ASL Interpretation by
Early and mid-career artists and arts workers in sound and music are invited to participate in our inaugural Professional Development Symposium.
Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in:
🔹Conversations and Q&As with artists , & about artistic practice, navigating the industry and levelling up one's practice
🔹 Workshops and talks with and about taking care of each other and ourselves within music and art scenes
🔹 A session with on songwriting and decolonial expressions
🔹 Connecting with other artists and arts workers
⛓️ To register in bio 💠
💠 Poster by
💠 Sound by
🔹 Very excited to collab with whose mentees will be joining us from Ottawa !
Reminder that applications are due tomorrow, April 10 at 11:59PM EST 🔸
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists & Arts Workers can submit Until April 13, 11:59PM EST ✨
Free mentorship for Artists and Arts Workers in Sound and Music,
$500 Honorarium, Peer-to-peer sessions, symposium trip to Ottawa + More !
🔗 in Bio
Poster Design by margot_fab
3D Object by Michelle Kuan 關嫣嫣
Music by rคf ຟil¢໐t
01/05/2026
✨HNY Y'ALL 🎇 !!
Hope you are keeping safe & cozy 💫
Pls stay tuned for exciting 2026 announcements 🎉
In the meantime, more highlights from September's fest... V proud and honored to throw first ever event in the Palm House 🥹✨
1. The best Sound Tech we could ever have ( playing live hardware set inside 😍)
2. The best Production Coordinator we could ever have
3. The best Operations Director we could ever have
4. Thank you for helping make dreamz come true !!
5. Beautiful Medicine Bag workshop by Angela Shilling
6. Gorgeous Oral History of Black Culture & Dance Music Talk by
7. A+ Stamp Making Workshop by
8. Our Bad B .world
9. Keepin things cool extraordinaire
10. 🀄🫰🏽
11. THANK U 4 FEEDING OUR CREW *toronto 🥹🫶🏽
12. Morning after (we ❤️ u )
13. Party crasher 🐰
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