Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Artist Profile: Kay Nau Draws for Representation
“I want my art to mean something to people,” said Nau. “I want people to buy my art because it means something to them, not just because it’s a pretty thing they can hang.” The artist connects with their audience through shared stories and desire for social change. While they only started selling their art a year ago, Nau’s work resonates deeply with the community they are beginning to foster.
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Montreal Fringe Festival Launches Its 28th Edition
At Club Soda downtown artists and members of the community celebrated the start of this year’s Montreal Fringe Festival on May 28. In both official languages, the 2018 programming features theatre, comedy, puppetry, drag, dance, and exciting performances that resist formal categorisation.
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Film Review at Concordia’s Film Festival: “Pre-Drink”
A woman is getting ready for a night out, she paints her nails by the window of her dimly lit bedroom. Staring at her reflection in the mirror, she cocks her head from left to right, and slips out of her shirt. There she is, in her bra, admiring herself. She continues to strip down, giving both the audience, and herself, a frontal view of her pale breasts. She cups them, but not in a sexual way. She is marvelling at herself, as if discovering her body for the first time.
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Diversity in Concordia’s 45th Film Festival
The festival screened premieres, made up of short films and animations, created by Concordia students and international filmmakers alike. MHSoC proudly stands as the largest university-based centre for film studies in Canada, with a collection of works screened to great acclaim at festivals around the world.
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Montreal’s Queer Arts Festival Celebrated a Successful Second Edition
You would think that in Montreal, this bastion of diversity and summer festivities, a multidisciplinary queer arts festival would be a well established tradition by 2018.
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Rain and Riots at Santa Teresa Festival
The music festival that ran from Friday to Sunday was hectic to say the least. There was rain, cancelled shows, and riots broke out by the end of it all.
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Fans Riot As Lil Uzi Vert Cancels Santa Teresa Show
Some fans who left the crowd went on to break ATM machines, turn over outdoor toilets, throw garbage on the ground, while others set fires before leaving the venue.
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New Ventures and Old Traditions In This Year’s Montreal Fringe Festival
The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is kicking off its 28th edition as the tickets for over 100 shows in this year’s programming went on sale Tuesday evening.
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Fashion Show Review: A Pop-Up Shop Uniquely One & Only
The choreography was held in front of the DJ booth, but later, one by one, the dancers walked, or rather danced, through the crowd on a designated path. Each dancer took their turn, spinning, jumping and kicking. It was an oddly intimate experience, seeing these dancers so up-close, compared to other runways that have their models on elevated platforms.
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Seeing Voices’ Fight For Inclusivity and Representation for the Deaf Community
Seeing Voices, a Montreal based theatre group, has a purpose to not only put on plays that allow for Deaf representation, but to create an artistic environment filled with both hearing and Deaf performers. Through art, they are building strong connections between the hearing and Deaf communities, without any need for tokenism or neglect for proper representation.