The summer is arriving quickly and with it, events, unveilings, and local artists’ work will be inundating good old Montreal.

Something I am definitely looking forward to this week is the opening of a new performance piece at the M.A.I. Bird Messengers is the new performance piece from aboriginal artists Moe Clark (whom I worked with on the film Circle Haiku) and Emilie Monnet. The performance combines storytelling and song that celebrate ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing from Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Check out their Facebook page.
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A couple of weeks ago, Many and I were biking home along Sherbrooke when I noticed that a few of the 2D moose (fighting urge to say ‘meese’) had been painted over. I was pleased to see that they weren’t going to remain black canvases forever. Intrigued and inspired by Many’s posting on knitting graffiti, I searched for the source of the project. Put on foot by Le Quartier du Musée, Orign’Art is an experiment which presents 9 x 2D life-size moose on the sides of Sherbrooke street between Stanley and Saint-Mathieu for the purpose of promoting public art.

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