Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Frame to Frame
“One kilo of cocaine, one AK47 or one Moldovan girl – it’s all the same,” is one of many haunting statistics that you’ll hear in Mimi Chakarova’s documentary about the illegal trafficking of Eastern European women.
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Igniting Festival City
Montreal’s all-night art party attracted 900,000 visitors last year. For its 13th edition, it’s bigger than ever, stretching from the George William Campus all the way to the Olympic stadium, from Little Italy to the Old Port.
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Fringe Arts
Weekly Spins
A look at the 4AD Records debut from local synthstress Grimes, for the lovers and the haters.
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Fringe Arts
Fringe Food
Culinary artistry is back in the spotlight this month, part of a wide-ranging city strategy towards “keeping February fun”—a response either to mid-winter suicides or to the failing economy, I’m not sure. Festival Montréal en Lumière picks up where Igloofest left off, culminating in that notorious late-February climax of creativity: Nuit Blanche on Feb 26.
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Fringe Arts
Weekly Spins
Ensorcelor are arguably Montreal’s premier blackened doom-mongering horde, straight out of the burgeoning St. Henri scene surrounding the Death Church and Fattal. They work to channel the pitch-black feeling that frozen earth imposes on us, forging sweeping, riff-laden landscapes of snow-covered vastness.
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Fringe Arts
Frame to Frame
Believe it or not, not all of the film industry revolves around the Academy Awards. Here’s a good example of a film that most certainly should have been floating around the Best Foreign nominee list, but didn’t make the cut.
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POP Montreal & CCA Team Up For Nuit Blanche
POP Montreal and the Canadian Centre for Architecture are collaborating for the second year in a row for a night combining the best both organizations have to offer—and in true Nuit Blanche spirit, it’s offered for free.
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Fringe Arts
A City of Festivals
“I cultivated a weird fetish for boxing this summer,” said Zoe Koke, exhibitions coordinator for the 2012 edition of Art Matters, when asked about the theme for the long-running Concordia art festival’s upcoming event In Our Time.
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TOPS to Pop Off
For TOPS, a new name is more than a fresh paintjob. You probably haven’t heard of them before, though the Montreal band has actually been around for a few years now—thye had just called themselves the Silly Kissers.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Fashion Week
In the hopes of showcasing early spring trends, local socialites and fashionistas peeped out into the cold and endured the icy cobblestones to reunite for Montreal’s 22nd semiannual Fashion Week.