Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Telling It Like It Is
It’s what you’d likely be talking about among close friends, except here you’re doing it behind a microphone for a crowd of people.
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Fringe Arts
Frame to Frame
“A powerful story, with a dramatic end.” The narrator of this touching documentary mentions that line a couple of times in the beginning. You’d think that the Friedrichs brothers are trying too hard to make the viewer understand the importance of their message.
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Fringe Arts
Fringe Food
What’s in a bite of cheese? Biodiversity, economic sustainability, artistry and pleasure, according to Léa Lehmann.
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Fringe Arts
A Feature Foray
Making a film is an incredible task at the best of times. Making a feature film is nothing short of monumental.
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Fringe Arts
Weekly Spins
Any band that can pull off covering Gucci Mane and James Blake in the same set deserves some serious respect. Include the fact that it’s done in a dirty, hard jazz style and it becomes a must-listen.
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Fringe Arts
Facing a Dual Identity
Presented last year in Kingston and now at Montreal’s Monument National for the first time, _L’homme invisible – The Invisible Man_by Patrice Desbiens is a theatrical example of words in action.
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Fringe Arts
The Ivory Coast
Local chamber folk-jazz septet Bent by Elephants are magicians. Despite the fact that they’re, well, seven people, pulling off a mini-orchestral sound—they do it while escaping the trap of being pretentious.
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Fringe Arts
Beyond the Picket
Activism can be visualized in bodies dressed in red, rippling waves of movement and free cookies. Because that’s exactly what happened for an hour on the first floor the EV building; a small student performance inclined passers-by to stop and watch and inevitably take part in the strike debate.
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Fringe Arts
Break Up to Make Up
Through comedy and tragedy the value of a product-driven, picture-perfect life is explored in The Leisure Society with questions like, “is sex in a pool dangerous?” and “how many people before you have to call it an orgy?”
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Fringe Arts
Fringe Food
While Montreal is often seen as a gourmet city—a place to drop one’s Friday pay cheque on all sorts of culinary delights, it is rarely recognized for its enduring hunger problem.