Tim Kraft has been performing stand up comedy since they let him in bars, and has since been featured on the Sudbury Comedy Festival, performed a solo production at the Edinburgh Fringe, has appeared on Prime Video, and released a half hour crowd work special that’s amassed over 500k views across Instagram, Tik Tok, and YouTube.

Sylvia Rack studied and worked professionally as a digital character animator in video games until 2015 when she decided to move to Florence, Italy to study the techniques of old master painting.

Enter the smoky, seductive haze of the Kit Kat Klub, where everyone is beautiful, the gin flows, champagne bubbles, and inhibitions melt away. But beneath the glittering facade of song and dance (and a bit of skin), a darker melody swells as 1930’s Weimar Germany, specifically Berlin, teeters on the brink, its vibrant and liberal shores threatened by a rising tide of hate.

The Blood Farts are a staple of the global music scene, with fives of followers chomping at the bit to hear more. With an ever-growing number of catchy originals and musical guests commonly joining them, you won’t want to close your ears.

The Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival took place this year from April 24th to 27th. As the largest multilingual literary event in North America, the annual festival is a place of forging inter-cultural connections, social inclusion, and exposure to new ideas.

The theatre is plunged into darkness, the audience is arrested by a stark white light that descends from above, pinning us in our seats and rendering us the initial subject within the void. Long before the stage becomes visible, a low, resonant beat emanates from the space, initiating an immersive sonic environment that suggests an enveloping performance.

“It’s impossible to live here [Pointe-Saint-Charles] and not get sucked into the culture,” says Jules Rodschat, who moved to the neighbourhood nestled in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal in 2024.

Mary Dean Lee began publishing poems in American and Canadian journals in 2019 and was selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2021. Her recent work appears in Ploughshares, The Fiddlehead, Burningword, Dunes Review, Salvation South and Hamilton Stone Review.

Malik McKoy is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of painting and digital media. McKoy attempts to create a visual world that spans across both practices.

Forget The Box is excited to spotlight Naghmeh, an Iranian-Canadian singer-songwriter based right here in Montreal. Weaving influences from diverse music scenes with her Iranian roots, Naghmeh's music transcends language barriers.