Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsThe Unscience of Sleep
Kate Hall’s poetry collection The Certainty Dream, which won her the 2010 Quebec Writers Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry on Nov. 23, is a strange beast.
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Fringe ArtsLit Writ
For the purpose of this program, we will attempt to engage in extemporaneous, and dare I say sagacious discourse.
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Fringe ArtsLit Writ
The library smells like duck tape; I have shit hair, which explains the hoodie.
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Fringe ArtsInstinctual Intellects
Galerie PUSH will play host to an exhibition curated by Kyle Beal. The basis: circles.
Out Thinking in Circles, in Circles Thinking Out will feature multi-disciplinary works that specifically integrate the circle or the circular as the dominant element of the work. The vernissage ventures to twist traditional connotations such as time, unity or the universe to loopy “spiritual rings and meanings found at the periphery.” The featured works “orbit a space from the horizon to the belly button.” -
Fringe ArtsMontreal Improv Explore Spontaneity for a Clock’s Full Rotation
If anything was missing from director/writer Paul Haggis’ inspirational 2004 film Crash, which features an ensemble cast of characters exploring race relations in America, it was improvisation. At least according to Montreal acting coach Kirsten Rasmussen.
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Fringe ArtsA Very Fringey Holiday
Hopefully we have reached a time in human consciousness where we understand that Christmas, as it exists in most households, is a big, corporate scam.
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Fringe ArtsLayered Take
Death is inescapable and inexplicable. At any given point death may brusquely interrupt our lives, and this is exactly what author Josip Novakovich contemplates in his new book Three Deaths.
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Fringe ArtsSentimentalists Fools
Much like winning a shootout against the fastest gun in the Old West, winning the Scotiabank Giller Prize is a bit of a risky move. It can put a bit of a target on your back; all of a sudden, every hack out there who fancies himself a big shot is gunning for you.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal, Stuff’d + Mounted
Everything is alive in The Obituary, moving and shuffling and existing in the space Gail Scott creates. The novel, however, is not for everyone.
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Fringe ArtsThe Mid-Life Crisis of Duddy Kravitz?
In 2001, while giving a talk on the art of film, Spike Lee described a very curious phenomenon of American cinema—the Magical Negro. This character is a black man who comes out of nowhere to help the white protagonist recognize and overcome his flaws/weaknesses/obstacles, and is usually implied to have magical powers. He also has the power to appear only in movies that are craptacular (Cough, The Legend of Bagger Vance, cough, cough).
