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Writing non-fiction’s a bitch – a truth not universally acknowledged.

– Will Aitken in This Writing Death

Theatre

Ars Poetica

by Anna Fuerstenberg

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What an interestingly inviting read on this mind muddled morning. Thanks! Coffee, Please?

– comment by Parker

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ART

Know the Warning Signs

Art. Not a pretty sight.

by Leila Marshy
30.11.2011

Rover would like to take this opportunity to warn you that Art can be very bad for your child’s health. This handy illustration will help you keep track of the warning signs. If you have reason to suspect that Art has entered the sanctity of your household or that your child is being pushed towards Art by either peer pressure or surreptitious Art viewing, please know that you are not alone.

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ART

In-demand Man

Popular Ottawa artist Michael Harrington paints the meaning of man

by Marianne Ackerman
24.11.2011

As artist studios go, Michael Harrington’s is vintage man-cave. An arch between two yet-to-be-gentrified houses on an unfashionable Ottawa street leads into a weedy courtyard. At the back, a cinderblock building on its last legs. The windowless two-room suite on the second floor is crammed with guitars on stands, various packing crates, iffy furnishings, paint-splatted [...]

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ART

Zine-o-philia

The tenth anniversary edition of Expozine expects to draw hundreds of small press publishers to one-of-a-kind event

by Marianne Ackerman
23.11.2011

For most of the 20th Century, authors were blissfully removed from the means of production. A vast enterprise of publishing and media undertook (and profited from) disseminating writing. Now all that’s collapsing. Expozine helps fill in the cracks in the architecture. Founded by novelist, publisher (the pioneering zine Fish Piss figuring prominently), musician and Distroboto [...]

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ART

Creation Theories, Quebec-style

The Musée des beaux arts plays host to expansive, and free, Big Bang exhibition featuring the likes of Denys Arcand, Pierre Lapointe, Marie Chouinard, Collectif Rita and many more A-list Quebec creators

by Marianne Ackerman
11.11.2011

Like peering through the windows of a stylish bar on a Saturday night, Safari 1 invites viewers to become voyeurs. A seven-minute video co-directed by filmmaker Denys Arcand and visual artist Adad Hannah follows the dream-like actions of eight bar habitués, projected on six TV-sized screens suspended from the ceiling. In the centre, the bar [...]

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ART

Turning on a Switch

Montreal artist Dave Todaro casts an unsettling light on the struggle between nature and technology

by Rima Hammoudi
04.10.2011

Let us, just for a second, drain every last ounce of context from the paintings in Montreal artist Dave Todaro’s Switch series. Let us pretend that the birds are just birds, the power lines and electrical outlets are just objects, and the recurring orange circle is nothing but a solid shape. With this perception, Todaro’s [...]

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ART

Art & Science: At The Crossroads

Pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Ivar Mendez brings his creativity to the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec.

by Martyn Bryant
27.09.2011

If I said to you, “I’m going to drill a hole in your skull, weave a small pacemaker-like device through the meat of your brain to reach its core, and then pulse electricity from it, all while you were awake,” you’d probably back away slowly and call to have me locked-up. A little too much [...]

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ART

A Brush with Terror

Montreal painter Marion Pennell uses own close call with terrorism as inspiration on the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11

by Jamie O'Meara
09.09.2011

Ten years ago, a Montreal artist learned, up close and very uncomfortably, that domestic terrorism comes in many forms. A month after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania – on Oct. 12, 2001 – a firebomb exploded in the stairwell of Marion Pennell’s apartment building, one of nearly two [...]

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