Articles by Elysha del Giusto-Enos
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May Arts Calendar
A Sample of What’s On in Montreal
The Link picks for upcoming arts events in Montreal
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Fuming Over Furs
Animal Rights Groups Unite Against Annual Fur Fair
With police surveying at a distance, a group of about two dozen animal rights activists protested the return of the North American Fur & Fashion Expedition-Montreal, an annual fur show that took place April 30…
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Ancient Culture in Modern Times
The Diversity of a Nation in Montreal’s Israel Film Festival
The eighth edition of the Israel Film Festival brings diverse and critically acclaimed films to Montreal for a week-long engagement. The nine films have received international accolades…
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Dépanneur Comedy
Finding New Quebec Identity in a Universal Place
This week Le Nouveau Théâtre Sainte Catherine is bringing back its bilingual serialized comedy, Dépflies. Written by playwright Alain Mercieca, the Chekov-meets-Seinfeld show about a St-Henri dépanneur is now in its third instalment.
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Father Doesn’t Know Best
In the Land of the Blind, Charest Is King
In the perverse macrocosm of “father knows best” that is our culture, we keep listening to the black-suited bureaucrats. In theory, their credentials and experience guide policy-making, but realistically, private interests rule the roost. The United States’ economic collapse came about because of a number of factors, not least of which is the unquestionable belief in power of logos and business models.
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The Undying ‘70s Massacre
Beer, Bands and Exploitation Film For a Good Cause
A 40-year-old porn cinema, an anniversary featuring exploitation film and a charity joining in so the party could qualify for a liquor licence were the humble beginnings of Montreal’s quasi-monthly institution, Grindhouse Wednesdays.
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Heard in the Street
We took to the streets on the March 22 Day of Action to ask students why exactly it’s worth it to fight tuition hikes.
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The Tofu of Canada
Students are being so selfish. They are standing in the way of something so beautiful—Quebec becoming more like the rest of Canada.
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I Saw the Sign
From above, Thursday’s protest made Montreal roads look like they were on fire. A sea of red flowed through the city as an estimated 200,000 people protested proposed tuition hikes. From the street the view was different.
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Dance Students Resurrect Accessible Education
There have been three Butoh walks in the past week to protest tuition hikes, but Wednesday’s was the first to have zombies.
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Art Houses Close in Solidarity
Montreal art establishments are closing on March 22 in solidarity with the student protest. Eliane Ellbogen, the artistic director of exhibition and production center Eastern Bloc, affirmed in a press release that culture and education are linked and that neither should become a commodity.
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Women’s Month Gets Edgy
A Rundown of the Femme Festival
Festivals in this city run the gamut as far as size and style—but few feature a deeper purpose the way the Edgy Women Fest does.
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Telling It Like It Is
Confabulation Shares True Stories
It’s what you’d likely be talking about among close friends, except here you’re doing it behind a microphone for a crowd of people.
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Invisible on Campus
Rape Survivors and Sexual Assault Centres
Nearly a quarter of female university students will have experienced a sexual assault by the time they graduate.
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Break Up to Make Up
The Leisure Society Asks if it’s Worth it
Through comedy and tragedy the value of a product-driven, picture-perfect life is explored in The Leisure Society with questions like, “is sex in a pool dangerous?” and “how many people before you have to call it an orgy?”
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Students Call the Shots
Short Plays with SIPA
There’s a festival going on at Concordia this weekend, tucked in the back room of the Loyola Chapel basement.
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Concordia Playwrights on Display
Contest winners at Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal
Winners of the sixth Concordia Annual 10-Minute Play Contest are getting their prize this Friday night, where they will hold a staged reading of their work.
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Finding a Home in Molson
Theatre______Business: Fill Us In Looks at Where Theatre Belongs
“It’s a little strange having to go incognito to school,” said Manon Manavit, Assistant Director of Theatre______Business: Fill Us In. “I’m in a business school but I’m not a business student. We’re there but we’re not acknowledged.”
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Igniting Festival City
Your Guide to Nuit Blanche
Montreal’s all-night art party attracted 900,000 visitors last year. For its 13th edition, it’s bigger than ever, stretching from the George William Campus all the way to the Olympic stadium, from Little Italy to the Old Port.
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Art vs. the Bottom Line
Infinithéâtre’s Latest Finds Comedy in a Literary Lifestyle
“Money is good. Art is better,” playwright Arthur Holden told Poetry Quebec about the theme of his show, Ars Poetica.