Victoria Lamas
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Fringe Arts
Ca Lem Brings Creamy Creativity to NDG for a Fourth Season
Froot loops and banana, s’mores, cinnamon toast crunch and apple, cotton candy—those are a few of the childhood reminiscent flavours of ice cream and sorbet Notre-Dame-de-Grâce residents fell in love with at Ca Lem this summer.
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Fringe Arts
Flowers and Nature At the Forefront of Galerie Hexad’s Latest Show
Rian Goldman hopes to have a flower farm someday.
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Special Issue
An Incomplete Guide to Alternative Queer Spaces in Montreal
Attention, LGBTQ+ friends! There’s a world of queer pleasures and possibilities outside of the Gay Village! Get off at Papineau metro, walk underneath the Ste. Catherine St. E. rainbow-coloured skyline until you reach Berri-UQAM—and never look back.
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Fringe Arts
‘Lesbian Speed Date From Hell!’ Teaches Dating Etiquette
Lesbian Speed Date From Hell! is a cautionary tale. Don’t ghost lesbians, girls! At least don’t piss off Kate Hammer.
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Fringe Arts
Curatorial Collective Antes Makes Their Own Space Outside of Concordia
Alexia McKindsey and Jose Garcia feel lucky to have been involved in the Concordia student art scene—they have both been curators at Art Matters, an undergrad-run art festival; McKindsey is an incoming coordinator at the student gallery, while Garcia just concluded his mandate in the role.
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Fringe Arts
Queer Romance Is At the Heart of Fringe Play ‘Exits’
Ella Kohlmann began the writing process of Exits at 17. Now, four years later, she starred in the play she wished she could have seen as a teenager.
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Fringe Arts
‘You’re Tearing Me Apart Tommy’: A First Person View of Montreal’s Screening of ‘The Room’
It’s rare and unexpected to see a group of people get so much joy from something so unabashedly terrible. But that’s what happens at Cinema du Parc every few weeks with screenings of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room .
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Fringe Arts
The Festivulve: An Inclusive, Feminist Event to Add to Your ‘Vagenda’
Rejoice, the Festivulve is gracing Montreal for a second year! Are you ready for the vulva, vagina, and pubic hair galore that awaits you?
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Fringe Arts
The Liquor Store Releases First Album ‘NightDrive’
“It’s so good to have a following that wants to hear music that doesn’t necessarily play on the radio,” said Rémi Cormier in French, The Liquor Store trumpet player, before launching into another song to a round of applause.
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Fringe Arts
Porchfest Got NDG in a Dancing Mood for the Fifth Year
On May 18, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident Sheindl Rothman and her husband were dancing to the Kim Beyea band. From the sultry “Song for My Father” to the lively “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” the couple swayed to the jazz trio’s rendition of classics at the NDG Porchfest.
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Fringe Arts
XP Mtl and Outfit Mob Get McGill Station Grooving
Last Thursday, metro passengers stumbled onto a pleasant surprise at McGill metro station. Amidst the regular hustle and bustle was a grooving group of dancers, singers, and musicians, injecting art and life into the city.
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Fringe Arts
Sara Marie Barron Brought Bedroom Soul to Montreal’s Club Balattou
Detroit singer-songwriter Sara Marie Barron concluded her first tour at the Club Balattou last Tuesday. She stepped onto the stage covered head-to-toe in glitter, yet her voice stole the focus.
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Fringe Arts
The Rose Festival Celebrates Self-Love and the Queer Community
“All of us who grapple with not being seen, or deal with intersectionality around our queerness—it felt like we had voices this year, and we were seen,” said Corrina Hodgson, co-founder of the Rose festival.
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News
JMAS Hosts Free Tax Clinic for Low-Income Individuals
On Saturday afternoon, John Molson School of Business classrooms were converted into waiting rooms, where Ika Peraic’s daughter was busy drawing while her mother was passing the time watching Friends reruns, waiting for her family’s tax return to be completed—for free.
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Fringe Arts
Putting Queer and Trans Narratives at the Forefront at Metonymy Press
Learn about Metonymy Press, a small independent publisher located in Montreal devoted to shining a spotlight on the writing of gender and sexual minorities.
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Fringe Arts
Peep the Programming for the 2019 Edition of Art Matters
Learn about the 2019 edition of Concordia’s Art Matters festival.
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Opinions
Grocery Shopping Makes Me Uniquely Happy
A stocked fridge and pantry feels like a victory, but also like a promise.
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Fringe Arts
The VAV to Host Performance Art Evening
The Visual Arts Visuels has been exhibiting a lot of pieces living on a wall or mounted on a base—on Monday, Feb. 18, they will host Unwind, a free show that will be a unique night of performance art.
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Fringe Arts
‘Contre-Sens’ Melds Photo and Painting to Offer a Unique Experience
Contre Sens is an art show made up of Concordia students featuring a melting pot of digital and painted works.
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Fringe Arts
‘I Feel Tender’ Warmly Opens the VAV’s Winter Exhibition Cycle
I feel tender was an exhibit at the VAV which revolved around the themes of tenderness, closeness and passion.