Community

Saturday September 13, 2014

Townshippers Day 2014 in Coaticook

Today's the big day for the anglophone community in the Townships! The 35th edition of Townshippers Day gets rolling in just over an hour.

This year, people from all over the region will converge on Coaticook, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary.  It's a day to catch up with people from the wider anglophone community, to make some discoveries, but also an occasion to get to know the host town.

Quebec AM host Susan Campbell will be hosting events on the big stage at the Pavillon des arts et la culture all day. She joins Sonali Karnick on line from Coaticook.

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Saturday August 23, 2014

Ukulele Club of Montreal

The ukulele has been popping up in a lot of pop music from Hawaiian singer Iz to Jack Johnson to Taylor Swift and Jason Mraz.

It's been growing in popularity in Montreal too. A few years ago, five ukulele players formed the Montreal Ukulele Club. Now dozens of musicians join them for jam sessions twice a month. Tonight they'll be part of the show at the third annual Uke Festival that they created.

Claire Elissalde and Anthony Pham are two of the original five members of the Montreal Ukulele Club. They join our summer host Pierre Landry, ukes in hand.

(Above, Claire Elissalde and Anthony Pham play Stand By Me in the All in a Weekend studio; photo by Pierre Landry)

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Categories: Community, Festival, Music

 

Saturday August 16, 2014

Restaurants for a day

Montreal has joined a global grass-roots movement that gives anyone who likes to cook the chance to open their own restaurant. 

Just for a day. 

It's called Restaurant Day and it started in Finland three years ago. Montreal now has more than 50 pop-up restaurants opening tomorrow. They'll be in parks, on streets, and outside people's homes. 

We invited the local founder of the culinary carnival, Frédérik-Toran Nissen, to tell us how it works.

(Photo of a food stand in Helsinki, Finland in May; courtesy of restaurantday.org; by Andrew Taylor.)

**Find a local pop-up restaurant here.

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Categories: Community, Event, Food

 

• September 2014
  • Sat., 13 – Townshippers Day 2014 in Coaticook
     
• August 2014
  • Sat., 23 – Ukulele Club of Montreal
     
  • Sat., 16 – Restaurants for a day
     
  • Sun., 3 – The Milton Park Story
     
• July 2014
  • Tue., 15 – Tiny House
     
  • Sat., 12 – Startup Fest
     
  • Sat., 5 – Grove Hall in Huntingdon
     
• May 2014
  • Sat., 31 – The long nights of Lac-Mégantic
     
  • Sun., 11 – Petty cash box returned in Lac-Mégantic
     
• April 2014
  • Sun., 27 – Empty Bowls: soup bowl event fights hunger
     
• January 2014
  • Sun., 19 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. award: Zab Maboungou
     
• November 2013
  • Sun., 17 – Ormstown carpentry students: Habitat for Humanity
     
• October 2013
  • Sat., 5 – Stanbridge East on 8mm films
     
• July 2013
  • Sun., 28 – Yarnbombing - Street Art
     
  • Sat., 27 – CBC Do Crew with Monique Lacombe
     
  • Sat., 20 – UNPLUGGED- Don't let your devices control you
     
• June 2013
  • Sat., 29 – Royal Baby Pool at Bramble House
     
  • Sun., 23 – Songbird rehab at Le Nichoir
     
• May 2013
  • Sat., 11 – Fair trade and fresh produce at Ste-Anne's market
     
  • Sat., 4 – Jane's Walks in Quebec City and Montreal
     
• April 2013
  • Sun., 28 – Cook for a day at Sutton's Le Cafetier
     
  • Sun., 21 – Solidarity runs for Boston across Quebec
     
  • Sat., 6 – Ébénisterie Public Woodworking: the community's workshop
     
• March 2013
  • Sat., 30 – Easter water: the Quebec tradition
     
  • Sun., 17 – NU: Media Innovation Initiative for Jewish Millenials
     
  • Sat., 16 – Soup Sisters in Montreal
     
• February 2013
  • Sat., 9 – StoryNet: everyone has a story