Fringe Arts
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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.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Boutique Shwap Club Offers a Different Approach to Shopping
Annette Nguyen hasn’t bought any new clothes in the last 10 years.
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Fringe ArtsWomen of Colour Take Their Space in Comedy at Ladyfest
One of the first times Sara Meleika felt confident in comedy was when she was invited to perform at the women-centred comedy show Ladyfest in 2016. Now, with her show They Go Low, We Go Laugh, she brought even more funny women to the stage.
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Fringe ArtsThe VAV’s Latest Show ‘Monsters and Ghosts’ Challenges Anthropocentric Ideas
Studio arts student Jenna-Katheryn Heinemann was moved to create a piece that reflected her complex feelings around climate change and the environment’s decline.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Clown Festival Serves Laughter for Their Fourth Edition
“It is ultimately asking the audience to question: How free are you?” said Amanda Huotari of her act Pretty Face: An American Dream, at the Montreal Clown Festival.
