Tag Archive for the term: postering

At 6pm yesterday there was a crowd of costumed Montreal Fringe producers lined up outside the gates of the Festival, the banner Peru Dyer had just finished painting was hung, Tristan Brand yelled a thank you to him, and a hollar to kick off the fest, and then the crowds poured in to begin postering. [...]

According to cleanliness laws in the Plateau Montreal, it is illegal to stick, staple or nail anything to public property. Like the other boroughs that address postering, the Plateau lumps “affichage sauvage” together with graffiti and tagging. This betrays the city’s complete failure to grasp the role of postering, and to address and regulate it in a relevant way.

Yesterday I had a practice with my Brave Radar buddie Conor at our jam space near Parc metro. We’re getting much closer to being ready to play sxsw, which is comforting. A lot of the practice was spent figuring out logistics, like plane tickets, passports, accomodations, show times…all of which are still up in the [...]