Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsWar on the Streets
Mainstream hip-hop isn’t generally known for moving its listeners to tears, but with just a little digging into the underground, you’ll find a plethora of raw material that isn’t afraid to speak the harsh truth.
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Fringe ArtsIronic Retro Pop
How women are presented in art, film and other media is a favourite topic among feminists.
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Fringe ArtsCJLO’s Double Birthday
Here’s a riddle for you. What’s both five and 15 years old, speaks and sings but has no vocal chords, and is putting on a rocking party on Friday?
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Fringe ArtsThe Tallest Of Mountains
Bear Mountain is a fitting name for a band emerging from the Canadian woods of the Pacific Northwest—their sound, however, samples music from all corners of the Earth, most notably the Congo.
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Fringe ArtsCanadian Horror Story
Step outside your comfort zone and into an S&M rubber suit—Cirque De Boudoir, the legendary Montreal-based group known for their themed mega-parties, is throwing Goregasm 2013 this weekend.
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Fringe ArtsSkanking the Night Away
Dig up those old Hawaiian shirts and dust off that goofy fedora—Montreal’s premiere ska festival, SkaFest, has hit the city once again.
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Fringe ArtsStop! Motion Time
Stop motion animation is a tricky craft, requiring ingenuity and a steady hand of surgeon-like precision. Indeed, manually animating puppets (or clay characters) frame by frame is like a big game of Operation on a three-dimensional scale.
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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.
