Tag Archive for the term: quebec

The scene was set in a Montreal park on St-Jean Baptiste weekend, Quebec’s national holiday, June 2007. We were hanging out in the park, hiding our beers from the cops, eating grapes and nacho chips. Enter Erik Virtanen with guitar case in hand. He joined us on the picnic blanket that had become rumpled over [...]

High, this is my first blog on Indyish so Im sorta nervous, but i wanted to let ya know of a couple of group shows I will be participating in the next week.
The first one is called “La Paria” and is organized by our local skateboard scene. This is our 3rd year showing the artwork [...]

My roommate Emma is in her second year of Law at Université de Montreal. As a bilingual anglophone, I watch her jump through hurdle after hurdle that the language barrier presents her. She loves her program, and loves being at a French University, but as a bright and articulate young woman, it is [...]

Got an email today about Joseph Arthur playing a show with Hot Springs tonight in Quebec city and tomorrow here in Montreal at Le National. Joseph Arthur is cool for many things I’m sure, but one of them is that he records his live show and sells burned CD’s of the live album right after [...]

Dear Indyish,
If yer looking for something wholesome to take part in post-Osheaga or want to sponsor sex-ed, check out Ca Marche!
I’m taking part and all the money I raise goes DIRECTLY back to my awesome workplace Head & Hands to fund the Sense Project -which is a grassroots sex education program that we created when [...]

This province has always stuck me as a place where idealism reigns and where arts & culture are a long-standing political lever. So I figure that the Forum social québécois, a mashup of hundreds of activists and artists to take place August 23-26, just might be the most Québec event of the summer.
It starts [...]

Anyone who’s visited Cinema du Parc recently knows that the place has lost all its character. The lush movie posters that once adorned its walls have been obliterated by white paint. No more collages of Lynch, Kurosawa and Fellini. In their place, drab black and white photos of Quebec movie figures are neatly [...]