Category: arts, culture, music

• performance memento

  

  Paper tickets. To theatre and dance performances. To concerts and art exhibits. I used to keep them, when paper tickets were all there were. I would use them as bookmarks or stash them away in a purse I rarely used. I’m not sure why I kept them all. To conjure up a fond memory, later,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  1 Sep 2023

  all, arts, culture, music

  Cher, Douglas Coupland, Kim’s Convenience, Marina Abramović, Massey Lectures, Robert Lepage

• “a community space focused on music and the arts”

  

  Question: what does it take to make (and keep) a community space? Should we start with the community or the space? The photo above was taken at Ursa one morning this summer and this week’s blog title borrows from the Ursa website, so let’s start with the space. There are news and media stories about…

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  Johanne Provençal

  19 Aug 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, events & festivals, everyday life, nightlife

  event venues, Martha Wainwright, Montreal, music, Ursa

• when a sample becomes a refrain 

  

  Described as a night of carefree joy, Laylit was founded in 2018 to celebrate Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) cultures and “to give space to the LGBTQ+ community to express themselves and have fun in complete freedom” (translated from this story en français). I went to a Laylit event with a friend, not knowing…

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  Johanne Provençal

  5 Aug 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, nightlife, welcome

  Laylit, LGBTQ+, music