Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsWhat’s Up, Doc?
You think you’re a film nerd? Talk to Charlotte Selb. In the course of the year, she said, she’ll see about 900 films.
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Fringe ArtsSongs in the Square
Take it from me—playing a steel-stringed acoustic guitar when it’s cold outside really sucks.The skin on your hands dries out and becomes brittle. The knuckles on your right hand chafe pretty badly if you miss the strings with your pick.
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Fringe ArtsHome Is Where the Beat Is
Fresh off what they lovingly call a “patchy string of fun Canadian tour dates,” local psychedelic pop-folk quartet Adam and the Amethysts will be returning home to celebrate the launch of their latest album, Flickering Flashlight.
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Fringe ArtsBreaking All the Rules
A baby deer is looking at me, hidden behind a tree. He stands on the left side of the painting while four adult deer seem to disappear, invaded by light. Standing in front of Kim Dorland’s Clearing, I ask myself whether the deer is waiting for something, or is he simply contemplating the human?
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Chicago three-piece Russian Circles return with their unique brand of intense instrumental music, one that runs the gamut of borderline-black metal to shoegaze-y ambiance, incorporating grumbling bass, walls of heavily-distorted electric guitar and pounding drums that would be an apt soundtrack for one’s descent to the underworld.
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Fringe ArtsCreatures Invade Loyola
Concordia’s Vanier Library is currently exhibiting monstrous artworks fresh by Shawn Mackniak.
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Fringe ArtsScreaming at a Wall
Known worldwide as one of the main veins for the arts in North America, Montreal and its well-established graffiti subculture have endured a long and arduous history.
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Fringe ArtsReaching Out & Reaching In
Concordia grad Lara Kramer works to touch the unspoken parts of our relationships in of good moral character, her latest choreography, which examines the intimacy of domestic relationships with the themes of obsession, instability, isolation and violence…
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Fringe ArtsLiterary Animals
Living in the mostly urban mecca that is Montreal, sometimes the concept of nature and the other creatures that inhabit it is hard to imagine. However, for Montreal-based writers JP King, Ashley Opheim and Mark Ambrose Harris, the animal kingdom is a major source of inspiration in this concrete jungle.
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Fringe ArtsTo Wild Frontiers
“Are there any record stores in the area?” asks Dusty Jermier, bassist of San Francisco outfit Wooden Shjips. The man wants to make the best of what little free time he has before the show. He also wants to know if there is any truth to all the Montreal bagel hype.
