Cultural Rendez-Vous: Montreal Literary Events to Mark
Promenade littéraire with the BAnQ Saturdays at 1:30 PM, Various neighbourhoods In collaboration with Tours Kaléidoscope, the Bibliothèque et Archives national du Québec offers guided…
Browsing: Literature
Best of mySCENA: Amin Maalouf on his collaboration with Kaija Saariaho
The opera L’Amour de loin – or Love from Afar – premiered to conspicuous plaudits in Salzburg in 2000, and has enjoyed numerous productions around the globe. It also…
Award-Winning Author Madeleine Thien on Freedom, Beauty, and Sorrow
It’s been a busy autumn for Montreal-based author Madeleine Thien, whose fourth book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, has been garnering unambiguous praise since…
Daily News Roundup: 14 October 2016
American singer Bob Dylan, 75, won the Nobel Prize in literature for “creating new poetic expression within the great American song tradition.” (Saria Darnius, general…
Daily News Roundup: 13 October 2016
+ Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal starts its 60th ballet season tonight with the premiere of Romeo & Juliet by French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot.…
Fall Festival Picks 2016
by/par Rebecca Anne Clark, Caroline Rodgers and/et Kiersten van Vliet Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, September 8 to 18 The 41st annual TIFF kicks off…
La Rentrée Culturelle: Literature – Books to Watch Out For
Graphic Novels A slew of interesting graphic novels representing a variety of genres and tones come out this fall. Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated first graphic…
Shakespeare Reimagined
Founded in 1917 and re-launched in 2012, Hogarth Press is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death with a literary series, Hogarth Shakespeare. Inaugurated…
Review – Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music (The Secret Mountain)
An ode to water, the source of all life, Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music is an excellent educational tool for ages 8 to…
Daily News Roundup: 2 August 2016
+ The Heckeler’s Andrew Burn takes on Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate with respect to the context around its creation and performance. “I’m not…
