Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsI Saw the Sign
From above, Thursday’s protest made Montreal roads look like they were on fire. A sea of red flowed through the city as an estimated 200,000 people protested proposed tuition hikes. From the street the view was different.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
John Coltrane once said you can play a shoestring if you are sincere. Logically, then, a band playing standard gear can be infectious—if they’ve got the heart.
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Fringe ArtsDance Students Resurrect Accessible Education
There have been three Butoh walks in the past week to protest tuition hikes, but Wednesday’s was the first to have zombies.
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Fringe ArtsArt Houses Close in Solidarity
Montreal art establishments are closing on March 22 in solidarity with the student protest. Eliane Ellbogen, the artistic director of exhibition and production center Eastern Bloc, affirmed in a press release that culture and education are linked and that neither should become a commodity.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
Le Frigo Vert, Concordia’s nonprofit food co-op, is seeking a fee levy increase this week. The organization, which currently receives 25 cents per credit from undergraduate students, is represented in a referendum question on the Concordia Student Union Elections and Referenda ballot this week, asking if students agree to increase this amount to 33 cents per credit.
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Fringe ArtsBurlesque Gets Brainy
“I don’t understand why the job is illegal—there’s just something about that that drives me fucking mental,” said sex worker, activist and performer Alex Tigchelaar. Her cabaret-style multimedia theatre production, Les demimondes, which debuts March 30, aims to show you why.
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Fringe ArtsWomen’s Month Gets Edgy
Festivals in this city run the gamut as far as size and style—but few feature a deeper purpose the way the Edgy Women Fest does.
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Fringe ArtsTelling 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 ArtsFrame 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 ArtsFringe Food
What’s in a bite of cheese? Biodiversity, economic sustainability, artistry and pleasure, according to Léa Lehmann.
