Tag: Montreal
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“a community space focused on music and the arts”
Read more: “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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greater than the sum of its parts: Sans Soleil
Read more: greater than the sum of its parts: Sans SoleilWhere I thought I was going…? Somewhere to listen to music on vinyl. Where I ended up? Somewhere that has become, hands down, one my favourite places in Montréal. And as one of their taglines reads — “Club Souper – Listening – Soirées Dansantes” — the Japanese cuisine of the supper club, the listening (to…
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Chinatown — good things are being said about you
Read more: Chinatown — good things are being said about youThe first place that bilingual fortune cookies were made was in Montréal’s Chinatown in the 1960s … or so I learned while watching the film, Big Fight in Little Chinatown (directed by Karen Cho, 2022). The stories that are told in the film take place in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City. Different cities,…
a few words ... from Montréal 