Fringe Arts

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  The Thug Life Chose Me

  Margie Ramos – Published September 18, 2013

  Got some post-Frosh or back-to-school blues? Drop the books and spit some rhymes: Hip-Hop Karaoke Montreal is inviting all Concordia students to attend a no-cover slammin’ hip-hop show—and to take the stage if they’re feeling brave.

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  So Good It’s Criminal

  Meghan Overbury – Updated September 17, 2013 at 3:07am

  Montreal is well known for its thriving performing arts community, with everything from concerts, to plays to dance recitals. Rarely, however, can a show successfully bring together all of those elements.
  2KSquad is a 67-member collective of performers, and they’re up to the challenge.

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  Get Inside the Circle

  Jake Russell – Published September 17, 2013

  Few students can say they’ve made the transition from journalism to hip-hop artist, but that’s precisely what Simon Tousignant, better known by his rapper alias ST, has done.

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  A Minute to Win It

  David Santerre – Published September 16, 2013

  Short films are a staple of modern film festivals, but M60, “Montreal’s littlest festival,” celebrates the art of short-shorts—films that clock in at one minute or less.

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  What Does a Scanner See?

  June Loper – Published September 16, 2013

  Our highly automated modern lifestyles allow for a higher quality of life—but at what price? This year’s “Mois de la photo” exhibition hopes to tackle the subject in its 13th edition, with the theme Drone: The Automated Image.

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  A Modern-Day Epic

  Riley Wignall – Published September 16, 2013

  What does it take to complete a novel of nearly 700 pages? Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling know. And now, Montreal-based author Norm Sibum knows too.

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  Exploring the Void

  Alejandra Melian-Morse – Published September 9, 2013

  Last year marked the 10th anniversary of Concordia’s own literary magazine, The Void.

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  Pastel Pop

  Colin Harris – Published September 9, 2013

  The man behind Washed Out is not the hipster stereotype you’d expect.

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  Hunters and Foragers

  Jake Russell – Published September 9, 2013

  If you’re taking a walk in St. Henri this week and come across two people rooting through plant life on the side of the road with a homemade cart, don’t be alarmed.

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  Th(Ink) Big

  Milos Kovacevic – Published September 2, 2013

  It seems like everyone nowadays has “ideas” of tattoos they would like at some indeterminate point in the future—but who among us has the cajones to sit down in the chair and feel the sweet, fiery pain of said art being injected into us for life?