Fringe Arts

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  A Feature Foray

  Arshad Khan – Published March 14, 2012

  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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  Weekly Spins

  Colin Harris & Alex Mcgill – Published March 14, 2012

  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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  Facing a Dual Identity

  Miriam Cummings – Published March 13, 2012

  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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  The Ivory Coast

  Sam Rosenberg – Published March 13, 2012

  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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  Beyond the Picket

  Colin Harris – Published March 12, 2012

  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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  Break Up to Make Up

  Elysha del Giusto-Enos – Published March 12, 2012

  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 Food

  Josh Davidson – Published March 10, 2012

  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.

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  Frame to Frame

  Colin Harris – Published March 7, 2012

  Budrus tells the story of a village’s struggle to keep its land amidst Israeli fences being constructed between the West Bank and Israel in 2004.

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  Extreme Shoegazing

  Alex Giardini – Published March 6, 2012

  It’s always a race for pro music writers and bloggers alike to pen the next micro-genre tagline, to the extent where the actual practice of listening can get a little sidelined. For Montreal-based Carpet, they are content knowing who they are, bringing an innovative spin to the shoegaze table.

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  The Long Road Home

  Colin Harris – Published March 6, 2012

  Though he’s been in the Canadian music scene since the late ‘80s, this week marks a first for the Weakerthans frontman.