Montreal International Black Film Festival: Matinik Natty Dreads
Matinik Natty Dreads is a documentary about Rastafarians in Martinique, which is not an independent country but an overseas “department” of France. The movie is being shown as part of the Montreal...
View ArticleMontreal International Black Film Festival: Golden Scars
Reasons to watch Golden Scars: to see how other people are living, surviving, making music, pursuing their dreams, to hear the rhythms of Cuban Spanish, to get a few glimpses of beautiful countryside....
View ArticleFNC: The second coming of The First Rasta
Le Premier Rasta is a documentary about Leonard Percival Howell, a major figure in the Rastafarian movement. It’s directed by Hélène Lee, former music journalist for the French newspaper Libération,...
View ArticleSunny and exotic new Madagascar boutique warms up cold Montreal winter
Boutique owner Aina Razafimbahiny with Pierre Marc Johnson and musician Dean Pallen, whose groups Raivo and Rimbonbante performed at the Palais de la Reine opening I don’t usually write about new...
View ArticleFestival du nouveau cinéma wins award for being wonderful, avant garde,...
The Festival du nouveau cinéma has won the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, for the “diligence, avant-gardism, originality, and diversity of the festival’s programming” of the...
View ArticleNoon-time sit-in on Tuesday will protest cuts to NFB, CBC, Telefilm Canada...
“A people without culture are not a people.” That’s the (translated) rallying cry of people who are upset by the cuts to culture made in the recent federal budget (while tens of billions of dollars...
View ArticleCountdown 2013: Art, culture and Montreal’s 375th birthday party
You don’t have to be running for mayor to have a platform. In fact, some of the organizations which work year in and year out to make Montreal a better, livelier, kinder and more prosperous place have...
View Article$60 million for culture, heritage and libraries in Montreal
Mount Royal, Old Montreal, public art and libraries — in particular the new Côte-des-Neiges — Notre-Dame-de-Grâce library opening in 2016 — are among the main beneficiaries of the renewal of a cultural...
View ArticleStuck in the Middle avec moi: La Voix
Every week Brendan Kelly takes a look at the talk of the town in franco culture ici. What were you doing last Sunday night? You might’ve been watching the hapless Habs lose yet another game. Maybe it...
View ArticleMaison Alcan sold for $48 million to company with ties to Laliberté
The Maison Alcan complex on Sherbrooke St. has been sold for $48 million to a company with ties to Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. sold the buildings on June 29 to Nacla...
View ArticleEditor's notebook: Meet new arts columnist Kevin Tierney
I’m pleased to introduce a new columnist who is a familiar face to many Montreal Gazette readers. Kevin Tierney has been a regular subject of articles in the Gazette because of his work as a film and...
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