Fringe Arts
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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.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
It’s midday, and the Hive is bustling. The second-floor student lounge at Loyola campus is filled with a steady crowd of diners, and every couch, table and counter seat is occupied.
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Fringe ArtsA Killer, A Thriller Tonight
It’s Hallows Eve and the streets of NDG are alive with the sound children gleefully shouting ‘trick or treat.’ The sound of a creaky wooden door fills the neighborhood. A wolf howls. Everybody knows what is coming.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Gritty realism has rarely been as chilling as it is in Justin Kerzul’s debut feature Snowtown. Based on true events that plagued a small South Australian town in the ‘90s, Snowtown provides a close look at Australia’s worst serial killer, John Bunting.
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Fringe ArtsConcordia’s New Fine Arts Magazine
Browsing Concordia’s agenda back in September, Bella Giancotta noticed a description of Folio, a fine arts magazine run for and by McGill students. In spite of Concordia’s internationally renowned Fine Arts program—and McGill’s lack of such a faculty altogether—she realized this school has no such publication.
