Portrait of artist Shahrzad Arshadi by Thien V (Montreal, March 2012). It Is Only Sound That Remains is a sound theatre performance by artist Shahrzad Arshadi, meditating on the life and death of Ziba Kazemi, also known as Zahra Kazemi. The story of Kazemi’s 2003 death in Iran, the ensuing
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Art Threat: Montreal First Peoples Festival call for submissions – Submission deadline extended to April 13
The 22nd Montreal First Peoples Festival has extended its entry deadline to Friday the 13th of April 2012. The Festival is looking for audiovisual works for this years’ showcase, taking place July 31st to August 8th. As always, the showcase features works by native directors and films by non-native directors
Continue readingImpolitical: The Mount Royal "Shadow Tory MP" departs government service
The right thing appears to have been done in the case of Saulie Zajdel, the ‘Shadow Tory MP’ who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount Royal but who nevertheless gained a job in the Heritage minister’s office and who proceeded to act like a shadow MP in Cotler’s riding: An
Continue readingCo2 Art: Sir, your room in the ice hotel is currently flowing down the St. Lawrence River
A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”. This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you room is now
Continue readingCo2 Art: Sir, your room in the ice hotel is currently flowing down the St. Lawrence River
A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”. This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you room is now
Continue readingCo2 Art: Sir, your room in the ice hotel is currently flowing down the St. Lawrence River
A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”.This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you…
Continue readingImpolitical: Sure looks like a shadow MP from here
My, it was just a few short weeks ago that Heritage Minister James Moore was making a windy case in defence of his department’s hiring of Saulie Zajdel, the Conservative candidate who lost in the riding of Mount Royal in the May election. Here was Moore: But Moore bristled at
Continue readingArt Threat: Artists invited to join Occupy Arts Committee – 3rd gathering in Montreal set for March 17
Bryant Park, Manhattan. Photo by Eric Walton Montreal artists are invited to join the growing collaboration of the Occupy Arts Committee, a gathering of artists from all disciplines who want to support Occupy Montreal with creative practice. According to organizers, this meeting will be a creation workshop to start imagining,
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Smoked meat, Céline-lean
It’s official – the families of Céline Dion and well–known restaurateur Paul Nakis have purchased the 84-year old Montréal institution Schwartz’s deli. Opened in 1928 on Montreal’s fabled “Main” (St. Laurent Boulevard) by Reuben Schwartz, a Jewish immigrant from Romania, the city’s best-loved diner has a worldwide reputation for smoked meat sandwiches so
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CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED: It’s coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what follows the deadline for proposals has been extended. ********************* ATTENTION: Date limite repoussée pour les propositions d’ateliers, de films et d’œuvres d’art
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Recalling the optimism of Expo ’67
It’s hard to believe that it will be forty-five years ago this spring since the opening of Canada’s first World’s Fair – Expo ’67. I have assembled a number of post-card images from that summer (some photos, a few just artist’s concepts). (Post-cards were the text messages of the day,
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Finding Émile
I reached another marker this week in my posthumous, intriguing, fan-like relationship with Montréal poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941) when Craig’s partner, Claude, drove me to the site of his burial in Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Even with a map of the cemetery it took us a while to find Marker #588 in
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: An authentic winter weekend in Montréal
Click here for a link to an album of pictures from my busy weekend in Montréal. (As I write this I still have a half-day left here so there will be more pictures added eventually.) Arriving here mid-afternoon Friday I`ve experienced the city in winter for the first time in
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CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR CALLOUT……………….. The ever popular Montréal Anarchist Bookfair will be coming up on May 19 1nd 20 this year. This is the biggest and possibly the best anarchist gathering in North America, and if you can travel at all this is one event to attend. Here`s
Continue readingArt Threat: Artists remember homeless man killed by Montreal police
On a cold winter day in Montreal this past Friday, January 6, police bullets took the life of Farshad Mohammadi, a Kurdish refugee from Iran who arrived in Canada seeking security and protection. Farshad was inside the métro seeking warmth, homeless in a city and country that failed to provide
Continue readingTrashy's World: In know I said that I would avoid posting things political…
… during my vacation. But I had to comment on this. Quebec nationalists want the Habs to be more “French”. Gimme a break. Why don’t you look at the standings and figure out a way to win a few more games! Look, I hate the Habs just as much as
Continue readingArt Threat: Art and inspiration meet on Montreal streets
J. R. Carpenter. Entre Ville. as appeared in Four Minutes to Midnight A text originally published in edition twelve of Four Minutes to Midnight, launched in November at Expozine in Montreal. Ideas expressed in this article largely are linked to and inspire the work of the Howl! arts collective in
Continue readingopenalex: Montreal’s Collective Push for Urban Agriculture
We are all still trying to figure out what a sustainable city is. Yes, we’ve got some good ideas. But to go beyond marginal changes and begin retrofitting, or building, cities in a way that truly responds to the challenges ahead requires ambitious changes. What type of neighbourhoods do we
Continue readinggay persons of color: Professional soccer player, David Testo, applauded by Montreal teammates for coming out
A lot of good has emerged from David Testo’s coming out last week in Montreal, including the support from some of his former Montreal Impact teammates. Captain Nevio Pizzolitto told the Montreal Gazette:”I’m glad he did, because he’s in a position …
Continue readinggay persons of color: American professional soccer player, David Testo, comes out
In an interview Thursday with Radio-Canada Sports, American soccer player, David Testo, who most recently played with the Montreal Impact in the North American Soccer League (NASL), publicly declared that he is gay. Recipient of the team’s 2009 Giuse…
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