Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsCutting Back
Art and political statements have always been a natural combination, from protest songs and demonstration performances all the way to state-smashing literature.
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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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Fringe ArtsPhantom Rhythms
A “phantogram” is an optical illusion in which a two-dimensional image appears to enter our realm in the third. It should come as little surprise, then, that a band by the same name creates experimental genre-blending music that reaches far beyond the sum of its parts.
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Fringe ArtsRooted In Music
Ari Picker wanted to give his band “a dramatic feel to it” when he decided upon the moniker Lost in the Trees in 2007. Coincidentally, it’s the band’s music, not its name, that is helping keep Canada’s wilderness alive.
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Fringe ArtsThe Unseamly Truth
Anyone familiar with American Apparel’s sexual harassment scandals in the past few years will likely find a parallel with Infinitheatre’s latest production about the perils of being a woman in the fashion world’s highly sexualized workplace.
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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 ArtsSkate, Drink, Slam, Repeat
Nestled in a nook along St. Laurent Blvd.’s main strip, with a bulky metal door adorned with a wreath of shattered Maplewood skateboard decks, the thrash-hold to TRH-Bar is pretty discrete from the outside.
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Fringe ArtsA Labour of LOVE
More than once in rehearsal, emotion has gotten the better of the dancers in Sonia Balazovjech’s company.
