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September 27, 2024

Still time to catch some of the film screenings this weekend.

 

 

SPIKE LEE: Honorary President of the 20th annual Montreal Intl Black Film Festival + Opening the Festival with an Intimate Conversation.

 

Fabienne Colas to receive an honorary doctorate from Concordia University at its spring 2024 convocation.

 

 

Lee spoke earlier on with Daybreak's Sean Henry about the 35th anniversary of Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn and the future of cinema. Also: what is the best and worse way to watch a movie?

 

 

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L’Oktoberfest au Marché Atwater, c’est ce weekend ! Samedi 28 et dimanche 29 septembre.

 

Le Marché Atwater, en collaboration avec la SDC Les Quartiers du Canal vous convie, de 11h à 19h, à son troisième Oktoberfest, ce samedi et dimanche ! Venez découvrir plus de 100 bières artisanales dans une ambiance musicale festive, avec en prime, une ambiance de marché d’automne qui vaut le détour. Le tout, animé par nos DJs et chansonniers aux rythmes folk et country.

 

 

 

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Throughout Québec - Journées de la culture:



À la découverte d’une oasis urbaine, les Serres patrimoniales de Westmount



A couple of years ago, the Montreal architectural firm Affleck de la Riva took on the rest oration of the Westmount greenhouses. Today, you have the opportunity to visit them with an architect from the firm. We spoke with the architect who led the restoration team, Richard de la Riva, about why this restoration was complicated but also very special.



Ikebana - Château Ramezay, Musée et site historique de Montréal



Artistes de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce - Circuit des Arts de NDG Art Hop



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CBC is marking the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as Orange Shirt Day) on Monday, September 30 with an extensive lineup of Indigenous-led original programming showcasing First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives and experiences across CBC TVCBC Gem, CBC News streaming channels, CBC News Network, CBC RadioCBC Music and CBC Listen.

 

(Emily Kewageshig / CBC)

 

 

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There's an exhibit called For the Love of Words. It's at l'Université de Montréal's library introducing you to the secret history of dictionaries. It displays 50 rare books that can tell us the origins of the words we use today. We learn more with Mathieu Thomas, a librarian of the Rare Books and Special Collection Library at UdeM.



Pour l’amour des mots : dictionnaires et lexicographes du XVIIe au 21e siècle




More to explore:

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Daniel Levitin’s new book on music and medicine:

 

 

 

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Doug Hood’s new video: he explains the process of creating it:

 

“I used Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC to produce a number of still illustrations and images then transformed each of them into five second video clips with movement using Kling AI software. I subsequently combined the short segments into a three-minute movie with a soundtrack I composed and recorded titled ‘Next’."


Enjoy!    NEXT - YouTube 

 

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