Based in Montreal, Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist Stina Baudin combines textile, sound, written text, and archival data to represent Black and Afro-diasporic identity. She describes her approach as bricolage, a mixed media practice that transforms readily-available materials into a composite work. In an interview with The Tribune, Baudin shared how she[Read More…]
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Remembering Oliver Jones
On Wednesday, July 22nd, Montreal-born jazz pianist Oliver Jones passed away at the age of 91. Jones’ start in jazz performance could be described as that of a late bloomer, yet his brilliance at the piano was evident from a young age. In 1940, he played in public for the[Read More…]
What we liked this summer break
The Lunchbox: A Musical – Dylan Hing, Staff Writer Over the summer, I caught the world-premiere musical adaptation of The Lunchbox at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. Based on the 2013 film of the same name, the musical centres on Mumbai’s famously precise dabbawala food delivery system; in a[Read More…]
The Riffo Gómez brothers immerse audiences in a poignant exploration of belonging
Brothers Cristo Riffo and Francisco Riffo Gómez explore cultural roots, memories of family, and the nostalgia around having moved away from their home country of Chile in their audiovisual experience In the end, it’s all the same thing, projected at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) from July 28 to[Read More…]
You have the best taste in music, as long as it’s yours
I was probably the most obnoxious 12-year-old to exist. I listened to 3WK Undergroundradio and looked down upon my friends whose Liked Songs on Spotify spanned the short distance from Juice WRLD to XXXTENTACION. Instead, I was passionate about jazz piano. I would sooner listen to 10 minutes of pots[Read More…]
Why must I-max out my credit card to go see ‘The Odyssey’?
On a muggy Tuesday evening, my father and I amble down to our town’s local theatre to catch one of the summer’s biggest films: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026). As we squish into the old cinema’s musty velvet chairs, we joke that our legs will not be the only thing[Read More…]
‘Kanga I, II, III’ brings Projections: SANKOFA’s afrofuturist vision to Trottier
Tanzanian-American-Canadian artist Shanna Strauss’s screenprint triad Kanga I, II, III joined the student-led digital art exhibition Projections: SANKOFA on Feb. 23. Displayed in the Lorne M. Trottier Building mezzanine, the Kanga series combines negative space with vibrant colour to assert the unifying power of shared cultural identity. Projections: SANKOFA is[Read More…]
Know Your Artist: Theodore A. Harris
American artist and poet Theodore A. Harris is a genius of the political collage. Born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harris brings an autobiographical focus to the subversive, polysemous medium of the collage, one shaped by his upbringing, mentors, and personal experiences with anti-Black discrimination and[Read More…]
The forgotten history of the Montreal coffeehouse
Before the price of coffee skyrocketed and the death of third spaces; before the tyrannical reign of Ticketmaster and the monopolization of the music industry; before we slipped into antisocial seclusion and let blue light mollify our beautiful brains, there was once an invaluable institution, home to art, community, and[Read More…]
Preserving childhood magic in adulthood
As kids, we ache to grow older; as adults, we ache for childhood. The Tribune shares three childhood books that capture this longing. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Bianca Sugunasiri, Arts and Entertainment Editor Grown-ups become preoccupied with the most inconsequential matters. Peering at the world blindly,[Read More…]