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Easter weekend and the arts

The Anti Jazz-Police Festival says no one should be the judge of jazz. The Anti Jazz-Police festival is on now. It's a music festival happening right now at Ursa, a venue on Parc Avenue. There are three shows a night running until Friday. But Let's Go's Ann Pill still had some questions. Is the festival anti-jazz? Anti-police? Or anti Jazz-Police. She dropped by the festival and told us more on the show today.




One more day to catch this: https://ursamtl.com/  5589 Avenue du Parc, Montreal.


Back in Montreal, in the basement of her brand-new cafe, Ursa, serving as a studio, Wainwright got to work.” Read  more:


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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.


Richard Serra in 2005 with one of his steel works. Some of them evoked ancient temples or sacred sites. Credit: Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rafa Rivas, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images



As It Happens interview/transcript with composer, Steve Reich:


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Knitting in the Stacks, April 4th, 12 - 1 PM. In-Person & Online.



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Plural Foire d’art contemporain - 12-14 avril, 2024, Grand Quai du Port de Montréal, 200, rue de la Commune O.



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Multimedia artist Victor Pilon, revived the Greek myth of Sisyphus in a show that lasted a full month in the Olympic Stadium. Those who missed seeing him move piles of sand back and forth — like Sisyphus rolling an immense boulder, can now see the 'happening' on film. We hear what the project meant to him and how emotional it was for the audience. He speaks to guest host Dionne Codrington.



IN TOTAL: 182 HOURS OF PERFORMANCE | MOVED 300 TONS OF SAND | WALKED 600 KILOMETERS.




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Re-Visioning Retirement - Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12 - 1 p.m.


Online – Registration:


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