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Fringe ArtsThe NGO Ultimatum
Activists and politicians alike have fiercely debated how to properly define and classify non-governmental organizations ever since the United Nations became the first organization coined as an NGO in 1945.
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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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Fringe ArtsThis Is Bat Country
Do you consider yourself too weird to live and too rare to die? Do you find yourself drawn to the dark side of the moon and carry Visine in your schoolbag for your “allergies”? If so, this coming weekend’s Montreal Psych Fest is the place for you.
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Fringe ArtsPaint the Town White
He’s had his music played on BBC Radio 1, a track featured on a Polish compilation and collaborated with artists from Ukraine and Japan—and yet Montreal-based electronic musician Thomas White has never even stepped on a plane.
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Fringe ArtsImprovement Interventions
A gathering of approximately 100 people met in a loft in Old Montreal recently to celebrate four months of hard work and discuss final logistics for 100 in 1 Day, a volunteer-run event taking place Oct. 5.
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All In the Family
Artists, actors, filmmakers and musicians alike are known to flock to Hollywood in hopes of making it big—but few can say they’ve climbed Mount Improbable and reached the golden beaches of success on the other side.
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A Decade of Resistance
As university students in the progressive metropolis of Montreal, it’s our responsibility to stay informed and on top of current events both at home in Quebec and abroad—so Cinema Politica is back to make sure the world’s pressing issues stay at the forefront of Concordia’s collective consciousness.
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Fringe ArtsThe Art of Spontaneity
Improvisation is a special brand of comedy. It can make your cheeks hurt from laughing while watching re-runs of the classic show Whose Line Is It Anyway. It can make you cringe at dinner parties when relatives attempt and fail at humour. And it can often surprise you when improv performers onstage can think of jokes in an instant that are even funnier than stand-up jokes worked on and perfected over weeks.
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Fringe ArtsPOP Montreal Diary
We’re blogging from POP Montreal from Sept. 25 – 29. Check back here throughout the fest to see what we’ve been up to.
