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Fringe ArtsConcordia Film Student Sara-Claudia Ligondé Screens First Short Documentary
“There’s no room for Black women to be weak, for Black women to be tired, for Black women to be messy, for Black women to hurt,” said Shanice Nicole in Sara-Claudia Ligondé’s documentary Rest Is a Right.
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Fringe Arts“What’s Too Good Isn’t True”: Poem of the Week
A poem that pulls you into its time and space, capturing the excitement of a moment quickly gone by.
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Fringe ArtsPoetry Nite Teams With La Riposte Féministe for an Empowering Night
It was a full crowd, filled with eccentric style and pints of beer at Chez Morrígan. The cozy, dim-lit bar had a disco ball projected on their staircase entrance, attracting passersby on Crescent St.
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Fringe ArtsA Woman and Girl’s Guide to Fighting the Patriarchy At D&Q
The patriarchy does not want a woman or girl to be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful according to Mona Eltahawy.
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Fringe ArtsHildegard, Jon Bap, and Tirzah Deliver a Night of Electronic Music
Despite the countless music festivals that pass through the city each year, Pop Montreal still manages to attract great crowds to the tenured five-day festival that has been showcasing emerging and talented artists since 2002.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Feminist Film Festival Fulfills a Need
“There’s a lot of women who have penetrated very masculine sectors, but the contrary is less,” explained film director Martine Asselin.
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Fringe Arts‘Trapped in Elon’s Mansion’: How a Man Named Bagel Took on a Billionaire
“Batshit crazy would be a good descriptor,” said Joe Bagel of his work.
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Fringe ArtsLesley Charters Cotton and Street Dancing: A Story of Alchemy
“I trained to be a secretary and I learned to type with a fellow student at the back of the room. We were not into it, and she would bring straight vodka to class. And we would giggle, we would type and we would giggle, and somehow it got us through this nonsense of secretarial [studies]. We couldn’t imagine ourselves as secretaries.” Lesley Charters Cotton didn’t stay a secretary for very long.
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Fringe ArtsDecolonizing Art At Peripheral Hours and Métèque
Born in Montreal to Chinese immigrant parents in the era of Bill 101, Chan said she has always been questioning her identity. She spent her childhood assimilating and integrating with Quebec’s francophone culture. She learned to navigate the realms of identity politics that strike the province and learned to speak the language. Blending into the landscape, she molded herself into a “Quebecer.”
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Power Issue Selected Poems
A myriad of words, a mountain of emotions. A bundle of poems that explore power, perceived through a political and a personal lens.
