Tag: Point Saint Charles
PostArctica: Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and purely old school working class worldviews. It includes a lot of stuff about World War 1 that your standard history
Continue readingPostArctica: Jean-Francois Hamelin – La Pointe
Stopped in at the vernissage for the exhibit, La Pointe, by Jean-Francois Hamelin taking place at the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier which runs until January 5. It is a tight little show with some great black and and while photographs taken in Point Saint Charles. Check it out, an interesting exhibition
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 19 – The Point Part 5 – Rain
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.” ― Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives Started out at Bridge and Wellington. I wasn’t sure if Bridge south of Wellington was considered part of The Point or
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 18 – The Point Part 4
“If you look for the truth outside yourself, It gets farther and farther away. Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step. It is the same as me, yet I am not it. Only if you understand it in this way Will you merge with the way things are.”
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 17 – The Point Part 3
“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 15 – The Point Part 2
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” ― Søren Kierkegaard It’s true, walking will […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 14 – The Point
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 11
“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors…disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Today’s Walk
Went to the Point today, not a long walk but a good one. Marguerite Bourgeoys Park. Random telephoto shot of sculpture in the park. Further up Wellington. Les Filles du Roi. […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Dirt
Dirt Dirt is an ongoing visual project that addresses ideas concerning the city in the period before the Arctic collapse (Polar Caps buh bye). It is really just a […]
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: “Three trees and a Mayan Calendar”
Espace les Neuf Soeurs presents: “Three trees and a Mayan Calendar” This Friday November 30 vernissage 5-10 PM Also open Saturday and Sunday 11 AM to 5 Pm *bring kids!* Tree no 1 Artist Arpi is back! He has created a tree using discarded objects as a comment on our
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: New David Fennario Play – Motherhouse
Don’t forget yer pots and pans! (en français ci-dessous) DAVID FENNARIO’S LATEST PLAY – A PERFORMANCE IN THE POINT FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY You are cordially invited to share an afternoon with David Fennario performing his latest play “Motherhouse”, a 65-minute story about the women workers of the
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: New Play From Point Saint Charles Community Theatre
Just a reminder that our play “Kiss the Bride” Opens in just a little more than a week – November 9th 2012 Please note that our performance for Friday, November 16th is now SOLD OUT If you plan to attend and have not reserved as of yet, please visit our web
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