Canadian Arts Festivals 2017: Our Picks
Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival Montreal, until June 18 The most convivial and bilingual event of the season, the Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival takes place in…
Browsing: Literature
Carleton to Award Honorary Degree to Quebec’s Gilles Vigneault
On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, Carleton University will award a Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, to celebrated Québécois poet and singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault. Where: Carleton University Art…
The Other La Bohème: Captivating Novel Blurs Lines Between Opera & Reality – as Passion, Romance & Drama Collide
United Kingdom – Since he was a teenager, writer and thespian Yorker Keith has had a core-deep love for Opera. It’s something that shrouds his life…
Cultural Rendez-Vous: Montreal Literary Events to Mark
Promenade littéraire with the BAnQ Saturdays at 1:30 PM, Various neighbourhoods In collaboration with Tours Kaléidoscope, the Bibliothèque et Archives national du Québec offers guided…
Best of mySCENA: Amin Maalouf on his collaboration with Kaija Saariaho
The opera L’Amour de loin – or Love from Afar – premiered to conspicuous plaudits in Salzburg in 2000, and has enjoyed numerous productions around the globe. It also…
Award-Winning Author Madeleine Thien on Freedom, Beauty, and Sorrow
It’s been a busy autumn for Montreal-based author Madeleine Thien, whose fourth book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, has been garnering unambiguous praise since…
Daily News Roundup: 14 October 2016
American singer Bob Dylan, 75, won the Nobel Prize in literature for “creating new poetic expression within the great American song tradition.” (Saria Darnius, general…
Daily News Roundup: 13 October 2016
+ Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal starts its 60th ballet season tonight with the premiere of Romeo & Juliet by French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot.…
Fall Festival Picks 2016
by/par Rebecca Anne Clark, Caroline Rodgers and/et Kiersten van Vliet Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, September 8 to 18 The 41st annual TIFF kicks off…
La Rentrée Culturelle: Literature – Books to Watch Out For
Graphic Novels A slew of interesting graphic novels representing a variety of genres and tones come out this fall. Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated first graphic…
