Rebecca Hiscott
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Fringe ArtsWalking With a Ghost
For six years the box sat in Godin’s home, silently challenging her to create something worthy of a stranger’s memory. This year, she did.
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Fringe ArtsSustainable Style
After working for over 10 years at one of Canada’s leading fashion houses and watching mountains of unused luxury fabric accumulate in warehouses at the end of each season, local designer Suzanne Bateman decided to take action.
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Fringe ArtsA Bloody Good Time
On Sept. 25, The Blood Ballet Cabaret presents Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, a titillating parody of the educational video games that were a staple of most ’90s households. The salacious Miss Bloody Mary Anne, aka Kamee Abrahamian, stars as a sensual Carmen Sandiego in a jet-setting burlesque performance that promises to push the envelope in traditional BBC style.
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Fringe ArtsBetween Darkness and Light
The FOFA gallery is dark and claustrophobic, sequestered into sections with black curtains and partitions. The sound of heavy breathing emanates from an unseen speaker.
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Fringe ArtsThe Antidote to Netflix
Minor technical difficulties couldn’t slow the momentum of the second annual NDG Off the Wall film festival, which took place on Friday, Aug. 26th in Girouard Park at the corner of Sherbrooke and Marcil. -
Fringe ArtsFantasia Film Festival: From Indie to Big Ticket
From soft-porn romances to action-packed samurai bloodbaths, gruesome black comedies and plain old piss-your-pants horror flicks, Fantasia provides an impeccable range of genre films for even the most unflappable consumer. And your inner indie geek is sure to be satisfied by the dozens of little celluloid gems that have yet to be discovered.
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Fringe ArtsKeyboards Exposed
Montreal’s indie music scene is flying high with the international acclaim of bands like Arcade Fire, Islands, Plants and Animals, and a legion of groups whose names either begin with an article or make reference to wolves. But what about its resident gear-heads and technophiles? Montreal’s synth artists are definitely a more marginal bunch.
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Fringe ArtsBright Lights & City Beats
Claire Kenway uses sustainability as a springboard for a novel exhibit that explores the potential of the bicycle as a musical medium with ///Friction 2.0, happening this Thursday at the Société des Arts Technologiques on Saint-Laurent Boulevard.
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Fringe ArtsArt Speaks
Everyone needs an outlet, a way of creating constructive self-expression that can positively impact their life.
