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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Sunshine Blues

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The little cinema space that could closes its doors

by Matthew Hays
18.05.2012

As much as I’d like to declare it the end of an era, to do so would be a bit of a stretch. After all, the Blue Sunshine Cinema will only be two years old when it closes its doors for the final time tonight. Not long enough to be an era, even by the [...]

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STAGE

Oh MAI MAI

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ECLECTIK, MAI, May 25-26

by Veena Gokhale
18.05.2012

My friends had always spoken well about MAI over the years, and I was curious to find out more. Knowing a little about its mandate to promote artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, I decide to check out the curtain raiser for their annual cabaret, ECLECTIK. Running May 25-26, ECLECTIK features dancers, writers, actors, songwriters, musicians and interdisciplinary artists. About thirty artists in 13 mini performances reflect the theme ailleurs ici (elsewhere here), which also informs their overall programming for the year.

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DANCE

Dancing with Myself

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Le Bancs d’Essai Internationaux dance festival at Tangente May 10-12

by Kallee Lins
14.05.2012

Le Bancs d’Essai Internationaux brings together dancers and choreographers from around the world to put the newest generation of dance on display. The biannual tour ended its Montreal run Saturday night before heading to Europe. Though the performers came from diverse regions throughout Italy, Canada, France, The Netherlands, and Wales, a common thread ran through the night. Multimedia, once a novel addition to put dance-based pieces in the often provocative territory of interdisciplinary performance, has become the status quo. The question of adding a video backdrop now seems as necessary a consideration as the number of dancers onstage.

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BOOKS

12 Hommes, 12 Livres

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Part 4 in a series about men and their books. This week: Xavier

by Joseph Elfassi
10.05.2012

Robert Jordan est un professeur d’espagnol, un américain qui participe activement à la guerre civile d’Espagne en tant que dynamiteur pour les communistes. Sa mission spécifique est de faire exploser un pont. C’est un ordre précis, venant d’autorités supérieures, auquel il ne peut absolument pas déroger. Et comme c’est souvent le cas dans la vie, rien ne va comme prévu, malgré la détermination obsessive du révolutionnaire.

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FILM

Just Breathe

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Rover interview: Oksana Cueva speaks with Guy Nattiv, director of The Flood, AMC Forum beginning May 4th

by Oksana Cueva
04.05.2012

Nearly four hundred eager spectators gathered on April 30th for the second screening of The Flood (Mabul), acclaimed picture by celebrated director Guy Nattiv, as part of Israel Film Festival’s 8th consecutive year. The film—a story about a family leading parallel lives where the main character Yoni struggles with lack of growth, his autistic brother’s presence, and being bullied at school—was emotional for many.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Saga St-Henri

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Artist lofts and gentrification struggles in St-Henri

by Adam Bemma
26.04.2012

St-Henri is ground zero in the gentrification battle taking place on the streets in Southwest Montreal. Working class folks and modest income families living in the area are coming up against a crowd of young, urban, professionals now calling the neighbourhood home.

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BLUE MET

Blue Notes

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Turning another page on Blue Met 2012

by Marianne Ackerman
24.04.2012

A literary long weekend with ninety-one events means there will be many possible festivals, depending on your choices. My best experiences at the 14th edition of Blue Metropolis happened along side-roads.

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BLUE MET

Love to All

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Irving Layton’s Letters and Joyce Carol Oates at Blue Met

by Mike Lake
23.04.2012

On Saturday afternoon the McCord Museum was the place for fans of Irving Layton. Local actor Arthur Holden performed some of Layton’s letters and poems, which is to say he read them in his best Poetry Voice. He did a fine job, but I’ve always found it funny when people feel the need to read poetry in a Very Serious Voice with over-enunciated consonants, drawn out vowels, and the inevitable line whispered or shouted for emphasis (in case you don’t know what I mean, this parody should give you an idea). It’s a cliché that really ought to be avoided, although it could be argued that this reading style suits Layton’s irony and sardonic humour.

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THEATRE

Not a Gilded Cage

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Blackbird, Shadowbox Productions, at Les Ateliers Jean-Brillant until April 22

by Alex Woolcott
15.04.2012

Don’t make the mistake of going to see the latest incarnation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird expecting a raucous night at the theatre. Harrower’s play, most recently seen in French at Theatre Prospero, is a dark and demanding tragedy with a reputation for leaving audiences fighting for breath. In this new production the harsh subject matter is well served by its cast, but the power of the script is mitigated by a lack of sharp direction that keeps us squarely in acting school territory.

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THEATRE

Strings Attached

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Penny Plain, by Ronnie Burkett, Place des Arts to April 21

by Kallee Lins
14.04.2012

Stock markets closing down, world-wide meat contamination, and the absence of life in No. 10 Downing Street set the stage for the end of the world. Penny Plain, blind but with unwavering commitment to the small joys of cultured living, decides to wait out in her armchair.

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BOOKS

Don’t Speak

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Interview with Erin Moure, author of The Unmemntioable, House of Anansi

by Mike Lake
08.04.2012

Erín Moure is one of Canada’s most exciting and acclaimed poets and translators. Her multilingual books are a mélange of English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, and Galician. To read Mouré is to see the inner workings of somebody deeply imbedded in the social life of words; her process is to always investigate, challenge, and bring to the forefront. Regardless of what subjects find their way into her books, Mouré seems always to be writing about language.

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BOOKS

Big Brat

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Li'l Bastard, David McGimpsy, Coach House Books

by Joseph Elfassi
25.03.2012

Li’l Bastard is David McGimpsey’s road-less road trip, a poetic adventure rooted in Montréal, Los Angeles and Nashville, among a few others. And very much like the aforementioned absentee road, the often quirky poetry book finds its strengths not just in its printed, visible words, but in what’s between the lines.

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BOOKS

12 Hommes, 12 Livres

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Part 3 in a series about men and their books. This week: Martin Forgues

by Joseph Elfassi
21.03.2012

J’ai demandé à 12 hommes de me recommander des livres importants pour eux. Mon but final est de réévaluer mon rapport avec eux et avec les hommes en général. Lors d’une journée particulièrement chaude de Mars, je rencontre Martin Forgues, journaliste indépendant, pour discuter de “C’est une chose étrange à la fin que le monde”, roman philosophique de Jean d’Ormesson, de l’Académie Française.

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FILM

Camera Rolling

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Picture Start, dir Harry Killas, at the FIFA Sunday 18 March

by Oksana Cueva
17.03.2012

In Picture Start, Harry Killas, Canadian director and producer, portrays an extraordinarily talented trio. The so called Vancouver School – Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace – are doubtless the biggest artists Canada produced in recent years and pioneers of conceptualism.

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THEATRE

Errors of Comedy

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Game of Love and Chance, Centaur Theatre, to April 1st

by Alex Woolcott
13.03.2012

There’s an old theatrical aphorism that says one should always leave the audience wanting more. This is exactly what happens in Centaur’s production of Pierre Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance (translated by Nicholas Billon). Watching the show, one is constantly wanting – if not hoping and praying – that the talented cast and crew are going to give us more. More jokes, more wit, more of Marivaux’s own blithe spirit.

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