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FESTIVAL CITY

FESTIVAL CITY

Class Acts, Enraptured Audience

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Jake Freekin Smith
22.05.2011

My face hurts.  My face freekin’ hurts.  I laughed so hard and so long at tonight’s show that my face actually hurts.  And the closing show of the Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival at Théâtre Ste-Catherine has been over for 2 hours.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Une expérience aléatoire

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Montréal Biennale, École des beaux-arts de Montréal

by Isaline Cartier
21.05.2011

Les abeilles du CIAC travaillent dans l’ombre pendant deux ans pour que revienne, à chaque printemps impair, la Biennale d’art contemporain de Montréal.  Elle vous amène cette année au cinéma (les dimanches), dans un colloque (terminé), et dans une exposition gratuite qui dure tout le mois de mai.  Le thème qui guide l’édition 2012 : le [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Shoeless Dancing Elephants

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Jake Freekin Smith
20.05.2011

Thursday’s Sketch Fest host Eman kicked the show off solidly with some grounded and personally driven stand-up. She took the stage with confidence and was no stranger to her craft.  From the way she delivered her stories to the way she riffed off of the audience, you could tell she was right at home.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Hump-Day Humour

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Amanda De Souza
19.05.2011

The third night of the Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival began with hosts Mooseman and Tweeter thanking the night’s sponsor, “Alcohol: Making comedy funnier since the beginning of time.” All suited up with beers in hand, the two announced they had worked hard to groom their facial hair, sporting mustaches especially for the event. This duo [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Three-Legged Cats and Spring Friskies

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Megan Stewart
18.05.2011

“Let’s do some culture!” announces Moonshits McGee, tonight’s “vaudevillian” host for the second evening of the Montreal Sketch Comedy Fest at Théâtre Ste-Catherine. Moonshits, wearing duct-taped glasses and an ill-fitting, scarlet tuxedo is most excited about the “eclectism” of the acts, and is bringing his “A-Material” in honour of the night.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Comedic Investments

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Amanda De Souza
17.05.2011

The opening night of the 6th Annual Montreal Sketch Comedy festival did not disappoint. Viewers were treated to a grab bag of everything comedy from hysterical video montages, scripted and improv sketches and even witty one- liners in between set changes.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Sketch the Town Silly

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Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Megan Stewart
16.05.2011

This week, Rover officially kicks off Festival City, and it’s happening with a big serving of silly. From now until August, Festival City will provide extensive coverage of Montreal’s rich summer festival scene. With reviews, artist interviews, and Rover’s top festival picks, Rover will be a source of information and great writing on Festivals.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Electric Versions

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Elektra 12 International Digital Arts Festival

by Kallee Lins
08.05.2011

Art tends to be associated with an expression of all things human, but the Elektra 12 International Digital Arts Festival aims to demonstrate the artistic capacity of machines, robots, and light and sound compositions that consistently challenge the place of the human body in contemporary art and highlight its physical limitations. 

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FESTIVAL CITY

Summing up the Subcontinent

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Martyn Bryant
02.05.2011

The wave of empires, religions, languages and cuisine that makes India such a rich, exotic and fascinating country also results in divides and migrations, such as the 1947 Pakistan-India partition and the disputed Kashmir border. Kasmiri poet and playwright Aziz Hajini, and poet Koyamparambath Satchidanandan from Kerala, described the long time over which they needed to absorb and reflect on 2002 state-sponsored genocide by Hindu Extremists on Muslims in Gujarat before they could write about it. They produced some extremely distressing poem

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FESTIVAL CITY

Drinking the Literary Cocktail

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
01.05.2011

Even as I was flitting about, I had an acute sense of all the simultaneous events I was missing. It was a fitting frame of mind for encountering Gore Vidal, in flesh. Described as a supernova by interviewer Michael Enright (CBC), he remains witty, articulate and iconoclastic, reminding us that all things must pass (he is 85).

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FESTIVAL CITY

A Pole, A Croat, and a Gay Guy…

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
01.05.2011

Outside, the conversation continues. It is the kind of day when everybody seems to have spent the winter procreating and getting better looking. The sparrows have been practicing indoors for months in a warehouse in Mirabel.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Loving the Queen of Malabar

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
30.04.2011

No happy woman writes, the old saw goes, but more probably the truth is that no one wants to read the slaw of a happy woman’s writing. Contradictions and conflict are the moving parts of both art and life. Last fall, I reviewed Merrily Weisbord’s book on Kamala Das—part tribute, part biography—in these virtual pages. [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Peut-être le destin

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
30.04.2011

Anglo poet friends, I have disclaimers: it is late, much prose and verse has swooped in the ten-dollar-beer swill under the bar bridge, and the English-language contemporary Canadian poet parallels I offer to these Noroît poets are superficial impressions rather than in-depth anythings. But you should read their work, and purchase it, and probably buy them a beer, sawbucker or otherwise.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Blood, Sweat and Publishing

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
29.04.2011

As for making money, forget it. This is a labour of love! The real rewards are having readers beyond your immediate family.

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FESTIVAL CITY

When in Canada

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
28.04.2011

The title of the event, Reading Canada: Fiction in English from Coast to Coast, remained an enigma. Both writers admitted to no real fictional grounding in Canada.

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