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JUNE 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 9 • CULTMTL.COM 7 No. Vol. JUNE 2019 • FREE * Fringe Festival * Goal * Arthurs * Mike Leigh * Cannes * Mural * Rachel Bloom 176 & 211 Bernard, Mile End Librairie Drawn & Quarterly table of Cult Mtl Open Every Day contents is... Infemous comedy hour host Kate Hammer on her Fringe Lorraine Carpenter Festival show, a Shakespeare editor-in-chief mash-up comedy called [email protected] The Peers. Photo by Mathieu Samson Alex Rose film editor [email protected] Nora Rosenthal arts editor [email protected] Clayton Sandhu to-do list 6 contributing editor (food) ALL EVENTS 7–9 PM AT 176 BERNARD OUEST Rob Jennings editorial assistant ( UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED ) city 8 Goal MTL 8 :rant line™ 9 VOTED #1 BOOKSTORE Chris Tucker AND #1 COMICS STORE! :persona mtl 9 art director Thank you to all of our readers! food & drink 10 Advertising READINGS AND BOOK LAUNCHES [email protected] Arthurs 10 THURS JUNE 13 An evening with Kaveh Akbar, Paige Lewis, and friends Contributors: Johnson Cummins WED JUNE 19 Emma Jacobs launches music 13 Sarah Deshaies Little(r) Museums of Paris Ryan Diduck Album reviews 13 Brandon Kaufman THURS JUNE 20 QC Fiction: Double Translation Launch! Erik Leijon :hammer of the mods 14 Darcy MacDonald MON JUNE 24 Nora Samaran launches Al South Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture (AK Press) film 19 General inquiries + feedback [email protected] THURS JULY 4 Adrian McKerracher launches Peterloo/ Mike Leigh 19 What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor Cannes 20 On Screen 22 BOOK CLUBS SUN JUNE 9 D+Q COOKS! COOKBOOK CLUB arts 24 Ott olenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi Cult MTL is a daily arts, film, music, food Kate Hammer/ Fringe 24 MON JUNE 10 TRUE READS and city life site. Visit us at Becoming by Michelle Obama Mural fest 28 Rachel Bloom 30 cultmtl.com WED JUNE 12 GRAPHIC NOVEL :play recent 31 Cult MTL is published by Cult MTL Media Inc. Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez and printed by Imprimerie Mirabel. FRI JUNE 14 YOUNG READERS (Ages 10-12, 6PM) Entire contents are © Cult MTL Media Inc. To Kill A Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Harper Lee SUN JUNE 16 QUEEREADS (6PM) Time Was by Ian McDonald WED JUNE 26 NEW READS Washington Black by Esi Edugyan SUN JUNE 30 QUEEREADS (6PM) Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color ed. Christopher Soto TUES JULY 2 INDIGENOUS LITERATURES Nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon MON JULY 8 TRUE READS How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee MTL.DRAWNANDQUARTERLY.COM JUNE 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 9 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 3 10-28 JUne 20 JULY 25 JULY 27 JULY 25 THE BIGGEST NAMES JULY IN COMEDY ARE BACK! 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Spectacles, from Ariane Moffat to Dumas, Pierre Lapointe to to-do list June 7 Bleu Nuit, Hubert Lenoir to Fwonte. For the daily To-Do List, visit cultmtl.com Montreal singer-songwriter and guitarist of note Patrick June 15–16 Krief launches his new record Dovetale. Monthly pop-up event the Market showcases work by local ≥ O Patro Vys (356 Mont-Royal W.), 7:30 p.m., $16 artists and designers at the Decade Building in Mile Ex. ≥ To June 16 June 7–Sept. 8 6551 Durocher, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Montreal’s annual Fringe Festival of independently produced The first installment of the CCA’s Out of the Box exhibition June 22 theatre, musicals, spoken word and other performance series, Material Thinking, is dedicated to the works of trained Ska/reggae/rock band Osmosis Unlimited launch their album arts packs in over 800 shows by 500 local and international architect and conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Music for Cool Cats at Petit Campus alongside Foolish and ≥ artists across 16 venues, at very affordable prices. See our 1920 Baile the Anti-Conformists. coverage on p. 24–26, and pick up a program at Fringe Park ≥ 57 Prince-Arthur E., 8 p.m., $10/$12 (St-Laurent & Rachel, site of the box office) or check their June 10–16 website for more. As part of Mural fest, several galleries, artist collectives and June 26–30 artists from NYC are taking part in the Global Artist Initiative Head to the Gay Village for the 20th edition of MTL en To June 23 exhibition at the Plateau’s Espace 8. arts, a five-day, kilometre-long open-air art gallery and ≥ The Suoni per il Popolo music fest occupies over a dozen 4040 St-Laurent, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. market featuring live art, performances, installations, venues across the city (primarily their home bases Casa del demonstrations and more. Popolo, la Sala Rossa and la Vitrola) with avant garde music June 11–16 by the likes of Vancouver Indigenous hip hop duo Snotty Transdisciplinary digital art festival Elektra unites Nose Rez Kids, Colombian-Canadian “pop satanico” artist dozens of artists and engineers combining cutting-edge June 27–July 6 The Jazz Festival dominates the Quartier des Spectacles Lido Pimienta, Detroit experimental band Wolf Eyes and local technologies with creative media (music, film, performance, faves including Nick Schofield, Frankie Teardrop, Police des design, gaming) at various galleries, cultural centres and with hundreds of shows happening in concert halls and in Moeurs and Xarah Dion. Keep an eye on the Hammer of the performance spaces across the city. the streets. The fest’s 40th edition will attract tourists and Mods column at cultmtl.com (and on p. 14 in this issue) for locals with a typically eclectic program, including Bryan weekly festival highlights. June 13–16 Adams, Suuns, U.S. Girls, Norah Jones, Pink Martini, Richard The Montreal Folk Fest features an eclectic line-up of roots Reed Parry, Blue Rodeo, Mercury Rev, la Force and Lee Fields. To Oct. 13 and contemporary bands and solo artists including the See our round-up of highlights and more coverage later this Dinner Is Served! The Story of French Cuisine is the latest Damn Truth, Ashley MacIsaac, Good Lovelies and Hawksley month at cultmtl.com. exhibition at Pointe-à-Callière, a collection of artifacts, Workman, with a youth program and a number of special paintings, illustrations and video that reveal “the captivating events. All of this is happening at the outdoor stages by the June 29–July 27 history of French gastronomy, imbued with luxury, good taste Lachine Canal (at St-Patrick) as well as Bar de Courcelle (site Fireworks light up the sky over Montreal every Saturday and refinement,” course by course. of the opening party) and the Annexe St-Ambroise (where night as part of the International des Feux Loto-Québec ≥ 350 Place Royale afterparty jams are scheduled on Friday and Saturday). Note competition. Buying tickets for la Ronde will get you up close that entry is PWYC (but you should pay something!). (for those who don’t mind the ash, explosive noise and $56+ June 6–16 price tag), but there are loads of great (free) vantage points Now in its seventh year, Mural Fest welcomes an impressive June 14–22 across the south-central part of the city. slate of international and local artists including Gleo, Joshua The 31st annual Francos Montréal music festival (fka les Saturdays, 10 p.m., rain or shine 6 JUNE 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 9 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM to unify even as it divides team followers Pitching in was part of the impetus for GOAL, a local festival of “footy culture” that has made :persona a mark on the city every July for the past nine years. By LORRAInE CARPEnTER mtl ™ More than hockey, more than basketball, This year, GOAL is expanding in two ways. First, the main : rant line more than baseball or football, soccer event on July 7 will be preceded by a wellness-oriented day is the international game that brings on July 6, featuring non-alcoholic drinks, healthier food options and even more family-friendly activities.