Category: Happenings
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Edward Clug’s Carmina Burana
Hi, how are you, I recently discovered that dance criticism has been dead since 2015 and I’m real sad about it. How did I discover this very under-the-radar tragedy? I went to see Edward Clug’s Carmina Burana the other night–produced by Montreal’s Grands Ballets, along with another Clug piece, Stabat Mater on the program–and when […]
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The Magic of “The Library at Night”
Simply walking into the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal is a terrifically inspiring experience. The combination of soaring windows, reading nooks, and six floors to browse through is enough to get anyone excited about literature. But one of the library’s greatest features is the basement exhibition space that has housed some truly terrific works in recent years. Their latest undertaking, […]
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The 18th Edition of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival
The sun is shining, the snow has melted, and Blue Metropolis just announced their 2016 program. Spring has come to Montreal! For those not familiar, Blue Met is the annual literary festival of the Blue Metropolis Foundation, which has been bringing people together in Montreal since 1997 to promote reading, writing, and education, focusing on […]
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“Colours of Jazz” and Immigration in the 1920’s
It is interesting the way stories about art are told. In fact, I will just wallow in my obtuseness for a moment and say that, while I like to look at pretty things (and sometimes not-so-pretty-but-sort-of-interesting things), the stories are what interest me the most. My tendency at exhibits is to ogle the writing on the […]
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