Applying for grants is a grind. Ask any grant funded artist, or those who hope to be. They want a detailed description of what you're planning -- but in corpo-speak -- and your life story with a particularly bright spotlight shining on your difficulties, struggles, mental illnesses, and every subcategory of marginalization that you can squeeze into.

Claire Loewen, Lucas Glickman, and Nico Gaudreault created the studio with several goals in mind, the first one being accessibility. Montreal is full of small artists who are looking for a place to record as many studios continue to be shut down due to noise complaints. Studio Verville offers studio time on a budget in a professional setting.

I missed Halloween last week. I mean, I saw it, I knew it was there, and frankly, even the people who did Halloween had a soggy time of it, and the kids had coats on over their costumes, so did any of us really do Halloween this year? 

Indie Theatre fuels the Montreal Theatre scene, bringing with it experimental works, emerging talent and exciting new voices. Anything & Everything Productions is no exception. In its first year of public operation alone, the collective has proven that they really can do anything and everything!

Are you ok, Dear Reader? I ask because I got hit by the blues like a truck, and had to climb back to ground level. While I was doing that, I was hearing almost spontaneously from people that they were struggling: sad, isolating, and fighting to keep the good choices going.

Seven years ago, during FringeMTL, I became fast friends with a few members of the queerlesque troupe GlamGam. That year they produced the immensely successful Greasy at Cafe Cleopatra, and I was witness to the unhinged, choreographed chaos three times. After that run, though, the troupe fell quiet.

Combining his love for making people discover movies and his desire to establish a recurring project where a community could be built, Jeremie launched QCCMTL in May 2024, giving Montreal queers and film lovers the chance to experience a piece of queer film history in theatres once a month.

The literary journal yolk has been at the heart of the Montreal art scene for years, and one of its greatest contributions is the annual Literary Oktoberfest, set to return for its third edition tonight, October 24th.

Public libraries offer so much more than just books. Depending on your library’s offerings, you could have access to magazines, films, video games, music, audio books, board games, puzzles, toys, and even electronic devices. They organise programs for patrons of all ages, including story times for children, book clubs for teens, movie viewings for adults, and tech workshops for seniors.

That's a shame in and of itself: the fact that the place where we can globally meet and share ideas is apparently useless for nuance; the fact that the place where we could gather information and strength and build a revolution, is actually just a cesspool of ignorance, vitriol, and AI videos.