Fringe Arts
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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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Fringe ArtsPower 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.
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Fringe ArtsA Love Song for Every Mood
Hypnotized by her beauty, Kiana Ledé’s crowd couldn’t stop shouting compliments from the audience. Ledé wore a baby pink romper with flowing sleeves that swept the floor, and a belt that wrapped her hips in rhinestones.
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Fringe ArtsConcordia Alumna Brings United Nations Travelling Film Festival to Montreal
Born in Egypt, Grace Sebeh Byrne moved to Montreal when she was three. She has been passionate about art her entire life, and found herself attracted to social and human stories, and human rights issues.
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Fringe ArtsVR Experience ‘Biidaaban: First Light’ Immerses Audience in Toronto’s Future
You’re standing in the middle of downtown Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square, one of its busiest intersections. Trees weave in and out of the cityscape, standing tall amongst abandoned skyscrapers. Plants are growing through the cracks in the cement, and the sky is high, gleaming in a clear baby blue.
