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Ella Buckingham Ella Buckingham

Wacky Horror Picture Show:  Twelve Vacancies Film Festival

There’s free popcorn on a table to the right, and interviews for Letterbox are being held in the hallway. Giggling students crouch over the microphone and compare notes on recent favorite films while others hunch over a table to admire stickers for the second-ever Twelve Vacancies Film Festival.

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Sarra Mirghani Sarra Mirghani

Verdun's Pulp Books & Cafe

If you’ve been in Montreal for a while, you probably noticed that the neighborhood of Verdun has undergone quite the transformation over the past couple of years.

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Dawn McSweeney Dawn McSweeney

We Wish you A Sleazy Christmas

Sleazy Christmas is back! Dawn McSweeney takes you behind the scenes of this unique holiday fundraiser for Forget The Box, revealing the inspiration, the lineup, and Andrew Jamieson's surprising love for all things Christmas. Support local art and have a laugh this holiday season!

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Candice Ann Candice Ann

McSway Poetry Collective

Street lamps gleamed against turning trees; juicy oranges, crisp reds, and mellow yellows, on the cusp of tumbling from their branches in the late October chill. I headed to Mcsway Poetry Collective’s Halloween open mic, hosted at the ever-so-cozy community hub, The Yellow Door.

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Yael Tobón Yael Tobón

Metatron Press

Metatron Press is an award-winning literary publisher based in Montréal, Quebec. Founded and managed by Ashley Obscura, this remarkable publishing house is “devoted to publishing new perspectives in literature that reflect the experiences and sensibilities of our time.”

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Erin Staley Erin Staley

Montreal’s Independent Bookstores: Librarie Saint-Henri Books

Back home in southwestern Ontario, it’s a twenty-minute drive to the nearest second-hand bookstore, a place which, for the longest time, I did not know the name of. It’s a long, single-story building with book-patterned posters lining the windows and pictures of the children whom the non-profit benefits placed in the entryway.

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Alexander Cruz Alexander Cruz

Leaving Eden: Montreal’s Venue Problem - Part Two

Back in February, Director and CEO of Canada Council for the Arts - a governmental entity which supports the arts and literary scene in Canada through grants, services, prizes and payments - issued a letter to the community in which it announced that the Council will be lowering its spending incrementally over three years, as part of the federal government’s Refocusing Government Spending initiative, for a grand total decrease of $9.88 million.

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