Tag Archive for the term: peace

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Remember I mentioned the public art garden making going down last weekend here in Mile End, Montreal, to symbolically claim a neighborhood field? Well here are photos of the gesture, looking lovely against the first snow, and notes on the progress of the project. I’ve also attached a recording by a local peace loving band, [...]

The newest release from Montreal indie label Ships at Night is by loved local group Orillia Opry. It’s called lighthouse for stragglers’ eyes, and it fades-in as it starts to an electric guitar grazing sad on a beach at night in marching 4/4.
Then Daniel Noble’s voice lifts into the dusty dark scape like a [...]

This weekend coming up is POP Montreal and while we’re making plans, scribbling and circling in our programs and getting happily bombarded by emails and facebook invites for cool parties, we know we’re in a bubble of safety for freedom of expression. A festival like POP is a beautiful thing, it brings huge numbers of [...]

Do you believe art should be a forum for staged harmony? Or for the ’safe’ outpourings of anger and and violent emotion? Do you believe art has power to affect social/political reality?
For Teesri Duniya, the 25 year old “Third World” theatre company here in Montreal, art is potent creative communities that exemplify peaceful collaboration, and [...]

Want to get a great idea of how the arts aspects of open source are evolving? You’ll get a huge dose from the aggregator built on a site called, of course, peace love and happiness. The site might be dizzying at first because it has so much info, but I think you’ll want to check [...]

Alright, Christmas is over but the people who do it right should get to do it all year; check out this dear video made by Sylvan Lanken- who participated in the Indyish MVMC in August- with Lily Lanken and Genevieve Smith:
I saw Sylvan on the street today on my way to meet Tessa [...]

Sunday evening I was doing some reading at Casa and slowly found tables and chairs being pushed aside and buffet trays and boxes of books carried in for the launch of Yalla, a book published as “A Youth Response to the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict”. More than willing to have an excuse to put down my “Book [...]