Category: events & festivals

• “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

• shine on, Moonshine

  

  Moonshine. Their story began with Pierre Kwenders and Hervé Kalongo in 2014, as a house party following a full moon: “The essence of Moonshine came out of parties we used to throw in our kitchens … one of the reasons we started Moonshine [was] to share that with more people who felt like us, and…

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  Johanne Provençal

  16 Jun 2023

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

  Hervé Kalongo, Montreal, moonshine.mu, music, Pierre Kwenders, San Farafina