Alejandra Melian-Morse
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Fringe ArtsA Portrait of the Country as a Young Nation
Not long ago, artist Aquil Virani was deemed “The People’s Artist” by McGill University’s Leacocks Magazine. Although it is quite a grandiose title, it is no doubt earned as Virani has worked ceaselessly to bring art to the people through his many collaborative pieces, leading him to his current project, “Canada’s Self Portrait.”
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Fringe ArtsLet’s Parler Religion
This year’s Montreal Fringe Festival is in full swing and is, as always, full of new and exciting plays from all over the world. Joining them this year is EMUNAH, a theatre piece created collectively by H-Dubbs Productions, an all Concordia theatre group.
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Fringe ArtsAn Issue of Creativity
As a student-run publication, Concordia journal Soliloquies provides undergraduates with publishing, editing and design experience invaluable for a career in the business.
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Fringe ArtsExploring the Expression of Poetry
The Mile End Poets’ Festival might give off the image of lines being read through thick rimmed glasses to an audience appreciative of snaps, but don’t let the name fool you.
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Fringe ArtsPrint Out Sustainability
The Groucho Fractal performance and workshops are nearly impossible to define. An adequate start might be to define them as an “interactive performance art piece,” but even that doesn’t come close to covering it.
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Fringe ArtsInstrumental Emotions
Of all the ways an artist can express emotion, cold and calculating robots might not seem like an obvious first choice—but robots playing music, stimulated by pure human biofeedback, is a different story.
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If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Say It Anyway
Literary critics who have crafted their reviews constructively and passionately have arguably made critique an art form in itself. The panel discussion What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry this week at the Word bookstore aims to debate just that.
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Fringe ArtsPlanting New Roots In Paint
In 1986, Carolina Echeverría left Chile for Canada in search of the opportunity to follow her dream of studying art at Concordia, bringing with her a passion for social justice. But she quickly found it difficult to conform to what it meant to be an artist in Canada.
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Making Room for the Bassoon
Indie/opera outfit Sidney York had their beginnings as a long distance collaboration between opera singer Brandy Sidoryk and bassoonist Krista Wadelet, clashing two very different worlds.
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Fringe ArtsThe Sky’s the Limit
No one can deny that modern technology is reaching unimaginable new heights—but when it comes to film, this statement can be taken literally. Drones have now been introduced to the cinematography scene, and Skysmith Cinedrones is flying them down an artistic path.
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Fringe ArtsDigital Trailblazing
As technology progresses, one might be tempted to wave goodbye to such age-old art forms as drawing or silk screening and label them outdated. But for one arts centre, a different idea emerged: why not just bring them into the 21st century?
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NewsMaking Montreal a ‘Solidarity City’
Standing in front of a packed conference room on Saturday, Ellen Gabriel admitted that even after over 20 years of advocating for aboriginal rights, she hasn’t seen much change.
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Fringe ArtsIn Case of Emergency, Break Dance
Hip-hop is a culture of many layers—art in the form of graffiti, poetry in the form of rap and dance in the form of breaking it down.
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NewsSexual Assault Centre Officially Opens at Concordia
After two years and a thousand-strong petition, Concordia’s highly anticipated Sexual Assault Resource Centre is finally open.
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NewsNoam Chomsky Breaks Down Neo-Liberalism for Concordia
Concordia was host to “the father of modern linguistics” last week.
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NewsP-6 Concerns Unmasked for Students
Just before the upcoming municipal elections, the Concordia Student Union turned its attention back to bylaw P-6, this time bringing the conversation to students.
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Exposing the Psychological Norms Wrought By Rape Culture
A Review of the Socially Conscious New Play “If We Were Birds”
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Fringe ArtsSkanking the Night Away
Dig up those old Hawaiian shirts and dust off that goofy fedora—Montreal’s premiere ska festival, SkaFest, has hit the city once again.
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Fringe ArtsTragedy Takes Flight
Tragedies may be best attributed to the long gone days of Sophocles, Eurpides and Livius Andronicus, but that hasn’t kept Toronto-based playwright Erin Shields from writing her own.
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