April 2012 Archives
Friday April 27, 2012
Made in China with Pride
What goes through your mind when you see the words "Made in China"?
Maybe cheap dollar store trinkets or substandard products.
"Made in China" gets a bad rap, but Vivi He is trying to change that.
She has a boutique called Very Studio in Montreal that sells ONLY clothes made in China.
She wants to prove to people here that Chinese items CAN be both well made and well designed.
The boutique is located at 62 Mont Royal East in Montreal.
Go to our Facebook page to see more photos from our visit.
Very Studio also has a Facebook page.
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Categories: Fashion
Friday April 27, 2012
A Quebec Design Made in China
The OvoPur is part of the permanent collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
It was honoured in 2009 with Interior Design Magazine's prestigious Best of Year Award.
It also made an appearance on Dragon's Den.
This beautiful egg-shaped water filter was designed and developed here in Montreal.
But to the surprise of some, the creators of the OvoPur decided to do most of the manufacturing in China.
Manuel Desrochers is the co-creator and Chief of Design of the AquaOvo, the company that makes the OvoPur.
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Friday April 27, 2012
Montreal International Poetry Prize
You may remember last year on the show when we first told you about the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
It's a new poetry prize, open to poets around the world, that offers the impressive sum of $50,000 for the winning poem.
The prize was made possible by an anonymous $50,000 catalyst donation.
Mark Tredinnick from Australia is the first-ever winner of the prize. He won for his poem Walking Underwater.
An anthology featuring the top 50 finalists has been published. (Available from Vehicule Press or on Amazon.)
We have two copies of the Global Poetry Anthology to give away. To enter, go to our Facebook page and tell us, who is your favourite living poet?
Listen to Jeanette's interview with Mark and Montreal Prize co-director Asa Boxer.
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Listen to Mark Tredinnick read his winning poem Walking Underwater.
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Categories: Books
Wednesday April 25, 2012
Judging Books by their Covers
Remember the old saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover"?
Conventional thinking was that it's the ideas inside that matter, not the packaging.
That adage seemed to make sense, but it's little less certain now. As e-books become more and more popular, the very existence of the book as a physical objects is being brought into question.
The SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal is holding an exhibition called Judging books by their Covers.
Considering that things may be very different for future generations, the exhibition looks at the role books have taken on our lives.
Listen to Jeanette's interview with curator Peter White.
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Categories: Books, Visual Art
Friday April 20, 2012
Beautiful Books
Le port de tête is a bookstore located in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood where the owners have carefully curated a collection of beautiful books for their customers.
The store sells only books, no CDs, no reading lights, and no coffee mugs.
The shelves are handmade from wood.
And the books are chosen as much for how they look as for the content inside.
Listen to Jeanette's interview with co-owner Éric Blackburn:
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Categories: Books
Friday April 20, 2012
École de la montagne rouge
L'École de la montagne rouge at the École de Design at UQAM is the propaganda hub of the student movement. Posters, t-shirts, even those giant masks you see in the protest marches are produced at their studio.
Shane Tupper is a member of the École de la montagne rouge. Listen to his interview with Jeanette:
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Categories: Digital Art, Visual Art
Saturday April 14, 2012
La Station
La Station is a gas station on Montreal's Ile des Soeurs, built in 1968.
But not just a regular corner gas station.
This one was designed by the legendary modern architect Mies van der Rohe. (Learn more about Mies here.)
It closed in 2008, and has now been repurposed as a community centre.
Éric Gauthier is an architect with the firm FABG in Montreal.
He took on the task of redesigning a building created by his professional idol.
Listen to his interview with Jeanette.
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Categories: architecture
Saturday April 14, 2012
The sky is NOT falling
It seems like it's been another tough week for culture.
Telefilm, the body that funds films, is cutting 1.7 million dollars.
There were protests against the NFB cuts.
And the CBC provided more details about program cuts.
Some people protesting the cuts say we are at a point of losing our Canadian identity, but Simon Brault says, "don't panic".
Categories: Film, Film and TV, Theatre
Saturday April 14, 2012
Cree Culture Class
The Cree School Board in Northern Quebec is teaching a Cree Culture Class.
Once a month students student in Oujé-Bougoumou have a full day dedicated to
learning about Cree culture.
CBC Quebec's travelling journalist Marika Wheeler tagged along with the Grade Five boys and their teacher.
Saturday April 14, 2012
White Filmmakers in Black Africa
The Vue D'Afrique film festival is coming up later this month.
The festival aims to bring stories from African and Creole filmmakers to audiences here in Montreal.
But recently, another film about Africa has been getting lots of attention.
Kony 2012 is an internet "campaign" that went viral. A group called Invisible Children made a film about child soldiers in Uganda.
Categories: Film
Saturday April 7, 2012
Rebelle
Rebelle (War Witch in English) is a fictional story based on the real practice of using child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It tells the story of a young girl who is abducted by a rebel army, who falls in love with an albino boy.
Categories: Film
Saturday April 7, 2012
NFB to cut St. Denis Location
The effects of the federal budget are starting to be felt in the form of cuts in many federal departments and institutions, including the NFB.
The budget for the National Film Board has been cut by 10 per cent over the next three years. That's a cut of 6.7 million dollars.
Click here to read more and listen to an interview with a spokesperson from the NFB.
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Categories: Film
Monday April 2, 2012
Cutting out the middle man
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Frustrated with the publishing system, author Beverly Akerman has self-published an e book version of her collection of short stories "The Meaning of Children."Categories: Books
- February 2013
- January 2013
- Mon., 14 – Making the cut
- Tue., 8 – Quebec Writing Competition Winners
- December 2012
- Mon., 31 – Growing up graphic
- Fri., 28 – 2012 Made-in-Quebec Playlist
- Sun., 23 – Graphic Chicken Soup for the Graphic Soul
- Sat., 22 – A playground for adults
- Sun., 16 – The way forward for the Olympic Park
- Sat., 8 – Mani Soleymanlou is a man on the move
- Tue., 4 – An interactive Christmas card
- Sat., 1 – Beyond Gangnam Style
- November 2012
- Tue., 27 – Dialect no debate for Acadian musicians
- Tue., 20 – Oliver Jones at home
- Fri., 9 – Design gone wrong
- Fri., 2 – Simons opens store in West Edmonton Mall
- October 2012
- Wed., 31 – Video games and violins
- Mon., 29 – Quebec Writing Competition shortlist
- Thu., 11 – Quebec a "hub" for sportswear design
- Fri., 5 – Breast Stories
- Fri., 5 – Electronic goes symphonic
- September 2012
- Fri., 28 – Compose your emotions
- Sat., 22 – Montreal's new linear park
- Fri., 21 – Remembering Melvin Charney
- Fri., 21 – Opera gets sexy
- Thu., 20 – Suburban Scene
- Wed., 19 – 4-5-0 Foodies
- Wed., 19 – Horrorfest
- Tue., 11 – Looking like a leader
- Mon., 10 – The Editor's Eye
- Mon., 10 – The Evolution of Men's Fashion
- Sat., 1 – Eve Gravel celebrates 10 years
- August 2012
- Sat., 18 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- August 18, 2012
- Sat., 11 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- August 11, 2012
- July 2012
- Sat., 28 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 28, 2012
- Sat., 21 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 21, 2012
- Fri., 20 – Cinq à Six in the Summer Schedule
- Sat., 14 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 14, 2012
- Sat., 7 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 7, 2012
- June 2012
- Sat., 30 – The Montreal X Factor
- Sat., 23 – Ads put car company under pressure
- Sat., 23 – Adam Cohen takes the Culture Quiz
- Sat., 23 – Cartooning Calamities!
- Wed., 20 – Culture minister Christine St-Pierre
- Fri., 15 – Chef Michele Forgione's street food
- Fri., 15 – Street Food Renaissance
- Fri., 8 – Better than reality TV
- Mon., 4 – Beyond Pop Art: Tom Wesselman
- May 2012
- Sat., 19 – Are all the artists red?
- Wed., 16 – Matt & Nat bags a deal with Apple
- Wed., 9 – Montreal's First Digital Art Biennial
- Fri., 4 – Quebec's Religious Heritage
- April 2012
- Fri., 27 – Made in China with Pride
- Fri., 27 – A Quebec Design Made in China
- Fri., 27 – Montreal International Poetry Prize
- Wed., 25 – Judging Books by their Covers
- Fri., 20 – Beautiful Books
- Fri., 20 – École de la montagne rouge
- Sat., 14 – La Station
- Sat., 14 – The sky is NOT falling
- Sat., 14 – Cree Culture Class
- Sat., 14 – White Filmmakers in Black Africa
- Sat., 7 – Rebelle
- Sat., 7 – NFB to cut St. Denis Location
- Mon., 2 – Cutting out the middle man
- March 2012
- Fri., 30 – Arts students in the protest movement
- Sat., 24 – Arvida
- Sat., 24 – Fall on Your Knees
- Fri., 23 – Is Montreal a world jazz capital?
- Tue., 20 – Lost Action: Trace
- Mon., 19 – Sid Lee redefines advertising
- Mon., 19 – Marketing direct to your mobile phone
- Sat., 17 – Selected Stories
- Sat., 17 – L'Homme blanc
- Sat., 17 – "Trop" Hollywood for Quebec
- Sat., 17 – "Bla Bla" -- A film for your computer
- Mon., 12 – Imperfect Health
- Mon., 12 – Is design an issue of public health?
- Fri., 9 – The Stone Diaries
- Fri., 9 – L'énigme du retour
- Sat., 3 – La Charrette
- Fri., 2 – Richard Sommer's Cancer Songs
- Fri., 2 – Fifth Business
- February 2012
- Tue., 28 – Pierre Hébert
- Sat., 25 – Anne of Green Gables
- Sat., 25 – Allan Hawco at the National Theatre School
- Sat., 25 – Le Survenant
- Fri., 24 – The Columnists
- Fri., 24 – About the Series
- Fri., 24 – Projet Trame lights up the Quartier Latin
- Mon., 20 – Have Your Say and Win!
- Sat., 18 – Chelsea Smokehouse
- Sat., 18 – Illuminating the Highlights
- Sat., 18 – Gaëtane Verna has the power
- Mon., 13 – Art by women in 2012
- Mon., 13 – Wesli Louissaint takes on the culture quiz
- Sat., 4 – Uprooted/Déraciné
- January 2012
- Sat., 28 – I am Leah, I am LilyBear
- Sat., 28 – "Art-house" arcade
- Sat., 28 – Super Mario at a Rave!
- Sat., 28 – The next step for the Olympic Park
- Sat., 21 – Bridging the literary divide
- Sat., 21 – A new soundtrack for skating
- Sat., 21 – For the love of translation
- Sat., 14 – Igloofest: showing winter's playful side
- Sat., 14 – Winter culture in Canadian art
- December 2011
- Sat., 31 – Quebec Writing Competition Winners
- Sat., 24 – Christmas Eve Concert Special
- Thu., 22 – The making of... our Christmas Eve special
- Sat., 17 – ORA is a film like you've never seen before
- Sat., 17 – Designs for the homeless
- Sat., 10 – Boutique Design
- Fri., 9 – Window Dressing
- Sat., 3 – The Canada Notebook
- Sat., 3 – Cinq à Six Holiday Shopping Guide
- November 2011
- Sat., 26 – Is Quebec fashion too commercial?
- Sat., 26 – ANA -- A bilingual play
- Sat., 19 – An art lover's dream job
- Sat., 19 – Francois Rochon's private collection
- Sat., 12 – Reimagining the Olympic Park
- Sat., 12 – Liberté! Liberté?
- Sat., 12 – Maestro Culture Quiz
- Sat., 5 – Can video games save the world?
- Sat., 5 – Culture Quiz: Mathieu Roy
- October 2011
- Sat., 29 – Perfume Artist
- Sat., 29 – Scent Sculptor
- Fri., 28 – Occupy Montreal
- Sat., 22 – Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards
- Fri., 21 – Farming on Film
- Sat., 8 – New pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art
- Sat., 8 – Are bilingual films a good idea?
- Tue., 4 – Foodlab fuses food and art
- Tue., 4 – The art of food packaging
- September 2011
- Fri., 30 – Arty Food is "In"
- Fri., 30 – CBC Open House & Culture Days
- Sat., 24 – Art: What's the Point?
- Sat., 24 – Arcade Fire's homecoming
- Sat., 17 – Creating a look
- Sat., 17 – Daytrip to Joliette
- Sat., 17 – YUL-MTL Moving Landscapes
- Sat., 10 – Ils Dansent
- Sat., 10 – Film Festival News and Blues
- Sat., 10 – James Darling in Rimouski
- Tue., 6 – Getting to know Catherine Perrin
- August 2011
- Sat., 20 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- August 20, 2011
- Sat., 13 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- August 13, 2011
- July 2011
- Mon., 25 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 23, 2011
- Mon., 18 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 16, 2011
- Mon., 11 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 9, 2011
- Mon., 4 – Cinq à Six in the Summer -- July 2, 2011
- June 2011
- Sat., 25 – The Culture Club -- Festival Edition
- Fri., 24 – Stanley's Summer Reads
- Fri., 24 – Can paper magazines survive?
- Sat., 18 – Art à la table
- Sat., 18 – The Culture Club -- June 18, 2011
- Sat., 18 – Diatribes of a Dying Tribe
- Fri., 10 – SOS Richelieu
- Fri., 10 – Culture Club -- June 11, 2011
- Thu., 9 – Jean Paul Gaultier
- Sat., 4 – Circus artist Anna Kichtchenko
- Sat., 4 – An architectural vision
- Fri., 3 – Culture Club -- June 4, 2011
- May 2011
- Sat., 28 – Culture Club -- May 28, 2011
- Sat., 28 – Masq'alors
- Sat., 28 – Five years as a UNESCO City of Design
- Sat., 21 – Opera's next generation
- Sat., 21 – Culture Club + Guest DJ -- May 21, 2011
- Sat., 14 – Culture Club - May 14, 2011
- Sat., 14 – A day in the life in St-Henri
- Thu., 12 – Swing, swing, swing!
- Fri., 6 – Denis Gagnon's New Boutique
- Fri., 6 – The Culture Club -- May 7, 2011
- Fri., 6 – Sherbrooke's Fashion Blogger
- April 2011
- Sat., 30 – Painting the Royal Couple
- Sat., 30 – La mechanique de l'amour
- Fri., 29 – Culture Club -- April 30
- Sat., 23 – A new album from Miracle Fortress
- Sat., 23 – The Culture Club -- April 23
- Sat., 23 – Kim Thuy, author of "Ru"
- Sat., 16 – Marc Séguin
- Sat., 16 – Culture Club -- April 16
- Sat., 16 – Big bucks for writers
- Sat., 9 – Equus
- Sat., 9 – The Culture Club
- Sat., 9 – The Bend
- March 2011
- Fri., 11 – Joe Ollman's Mid-Life
- Fri., 11 – Michel Faubert
- Mon., 7 – Saguenay Short Film Festival
- Mon., 7 – Emilie Clepper's roadtrip soundtrack
- Fri., 4 – The Culture Club
- February 2011
- Mon., 28 – Karine Vanasse
- Mon., 28 – The Culture Club
- Tue., 22 – Books with Stanley Péan
- Tue., 22 – Corno's Art and Desire
- Mon., 14 – Knowing it by Harp
- Mon., 14 – Front seat on the Runway
- Mon., 14 – Heading down Degeneration Street
- Mon., 7 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin retrospective
- Mon., 7 – Jorane's new album
- January 2011
- Mon., 31 – Funkytown, the film
- Mon., 31 – The Culture Club goes to the theatre
- Mon., 31 – Denis Villeneuve heads to the Oscars
- Mon., 24 – Coeur de Pirate + Bedouin Soundclash
- Mon., 24 – Culture Club - Kamouraska to Funkytown!
- Mon., 24 – Quebec books - Stanley Péan's picks
- Tue., 11 – Rémy Girard plays bungling spy on English TV
- Tue., 11 – Culture Club on artist Shary Boyle
- Tue., 11 – Domestic Crisis Group - Two Tired Hearts EP
- Sat., 1 – Winning Words
- December 2010
- Mon., 20 – Culture for Christmas (CDs)
- Mon., 20 – Culture for Christmas (DVDs)
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