Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsExploring the Expression of Poetry
The Mile End Poets’ Festival might give off the image of lines being read through thick rimmed glasses to an audience appreciative of snaps, but don’t let the name fool you.
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Fringe ArtsSpreading the Party Gospel
Andrew W.K. is a man who wears many hats: eccentric musician, producer, motivational speaker, former television show host and U.S. cultural ambassador to Bahrain (well, sort of).
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Fringe ArtsInstrumental Emotions
Of all the ways an artist can express emotion, cold and calculating robots might not seem like an obvious first choice—but robots playing music, stimulated by pure human biofeedback, is a different story.
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Fringe ArtsFolk Master Flex
The carefree acoustic melodies and whimsical chords of Seattle indie-folk band The Head and the Heart are an ideal soundtrack to the warm spring breezes now kissing the Montreal city streets, teasing the glowing summer nights to come.
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Fringe ArtsBad Business
The world of David Mamet’s classic Glengarry Glen Ross is one built on the power of words as weapons and glasses of hard whiskey. It’s a world where the single golden rule is ABC—Always Be Closing.
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Fringe ArtsA Film Noir Disco Fantasy
Fame and fortune sounds just fine to Jef Barbara, he’s just not in a rush to get there.
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Fringe ArtsAnatomy of a Strike
For American illustrator Sophie Yanow, being in Montreal during the Quebec student strike was pure happenstance.
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Fringe ArtsPrimal Urges
For West Coast indie band Bend Sinister, walking through a park or down the street is like turning on National Geographic—the band is fascinated with the idea that humans are no different from the beasts in the wild, choosing to base their latest album on humanity’s primal nature.
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Fringe ArtsAnalog & Ironic
In the Internet age of whiny memes and re-posts galore, it can be hard to find fresh and original content. Enter the Found Footage Festival—a celebration of the weird, forgotten VHS tapes of a past era and home to some of the strangest footage on Earth.
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Fringe Arts
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Say It Anyway
Literary critics who have crafted their reviews constructively and passionately have arguably made critique an art form in itself. The panel discussion What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry this week at the Word bookstore aims to debate just that.
