Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsSailing Full Speed Ahead
I first saw Airick Woodhead play the launch party for the literary zine Room 22 at the Griffintown house, bike shop, and venue that is The Friendship Cove. The short, blonde-headed Doldrums loomed over his instruments much like a scientist does over his precious laboratory equipment while performing a fragile experiment.
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Fringe ArtsYou Know We Made It Up
Sometimes it takes a little change to remember why you started playing music in the first place. The songwriting duo of Jesse LeGallais and Scott Delaney have been playing together for over ten years, recently embarking on a new musical journey as C T Z N S H P, a reductive take on indie sounds of past projects.
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Fringe ArtsCounting the Space Between
On the seventh floor of the EV Building, around the corner from Café X, there’s a very special kind of laboratory. It lives and reacts to the people inside it, combining the technological, the ecological and the philosophical.
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Fringe ArtsAn African Odyssey in Montreal
Few immigrants would come to Canada if they thought a crumbling economy was going to leave them homeless. In Black Theatre Workshop’s latest production, Stori Ya, that’s exactly what happens, however. The play, which recounts the journey of a woman forced to first leave her country, then her house, is told through song, dance, and stories.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Youth Lagoon’s Year of Hibernation came out of nowhere (well, Idaho), and quickly found itself sitting pretty on the dream-pop shelf. -
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Fringe ArtsThinking About You
On the night of Nov. 14, the Ukrainian Federation was packed, but not for one of the intimate concerts the part-time Mile-End venue is known for. Rather, the crowd had gathered to see a writer. Miranda July, the woman responsible for the films Me, You and Everyone We Know and The Future was there to read from her new book, It Chooses You.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
Tacked on a wall inside the NDG Food Depot’s bustling front office is a massive drawing on a white sheet of bristol board. Large, bubbly coloured-marker digits illuminate the wall with a stark calculation: the average 1 1/2 apartment rental price in Montreal, subtracted from the average monthly welfare check.
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Fringe ArtsPreserving Her Semi-Colons
American writer Lydia Davis, in her 2010 Paris Review essay, “The Sins of a Translator,” said, “If a translation is as fine as it can be, it may match the original timelessness, too—it may deserve to endure.” She later states that, “As we translate, it is not our own choice that confronts us, but the choice of another writer, and we must search more consciously for the right words with which to convey it.”
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Fringe ArtsSave the Girl, Save the World
In a little orphanage in Nepal with only six kids, Mitchell Luis met a smiling 10-year-old girl named Esther.
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