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Theatre, music and poetry abound at Found Festival this weekend

From cafés to alleyways, parks to places with no proper name at all, Found Festival has been de-institutionalizing visual and performing arts for 14 years, running through Sunday on both sides of the river. Article content To say Found has a proper centre at The Fringe Grounds Café in its nightly AfterFound parties almost sounds like an accusation. Luckily — to maintain the festival's happily un-pinnable ethos — even these events are completely different night by night. Article content Article content 'Our mission is to bring some really wild and unexpected and fun and beautiful performances, and different types of art, to places in the community and in the city's neighbourhoods that folks might not look at in that way. Article content 'We really want to just take art out of institutional spaces, theatres, galleries, concert halls, things like that — places where people gather already.' Article content So, for you, this might be the aforementioned Hot Garbage at The Fringe Grounds Café Saturday night, where the suggested dress code is anything handmade, recycled or reworked as you wander through projects made by artists teamed up a mere 72 hours earlier, culminating in a straight-up dance party. Article content Article content Or, 7:30 p.m. Friday on Queen Elizabeth Hill overlooking Walterdale Bridge, a free, all-ages concert with a trio of powerhouse bands: hard-rocking lushclot, doomy Old Mound and darkwave duo Mox Jet. Again, free. Article content Article content Or how about adults-only Saskatchewan import play Slugs, the poster looking like a sexy horror movie? Article content 'They would love to hear that,' Brock laughs. 'S.E. Grummett and Sam Kruger have had huge Fringe hits (Something in the Water, Creepy Boys), and they're here with what's actually a huge production. It's got a lot of video, live music and is about these two techno punk artists who are trying to create a show that is entirely about nothing political in today's world.