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Tom Llewellin

April 13, 2010 Fringe Arts

From inside prison walls

Concordia student gives a voice to female inmates

by Tom Llewellin

Being tough on crime is a matter for legislators who emphasize punishment as the primary response to unacceptable behaviour. To Alissa Jafiarova, a Concordia student exhibiting... » Full Story

March 30, 2010 Literary Arts

Turning the tables on zines

by Tom Llewellin

Concordia alum Patrick Hutchinson came to Canada as a teenager in 1978, where he developed a habit of collecting singles records. He spent the following years as part of... » Full Story

March 23, 2010 Fringe Arts

Art for the downtrodden

Film looks at the benefits and the price of radical activism

by Tom Llewellin

A white-tablecloth dinner with foie gras for the homeless. Hundreds of plastic bags speared on brittle tree branches. A burned-out SUV dumped in the heart of Canada’s biggest... » Full Story

March 23, 2010 News

Online campaign brings good with bad

Web extends reach of campaign, but leaves bitter aftertaste

by Tom Llewellin

As the Concordia Student Union election campaign winds to a close, the piles of purple and orange posters on every available space remain the same, but the parallel campaign... » Full Story

March 16, 2010 Fringe Arts

Fear and loathing in Mosul

‘Dark impulses are understood’ in Father Land, says playwright

by Tom Llewellin

Two brothers, considered monsters by many, wait for the end as the world’s most powerful army comes ever closer. Half a planet away, two different brothers sit... » Full Story

March 9, 2010 Fringe Arts

Digital unreality

Video show The Body is Obsolete blurs the line between flesh and hardware

by Tom Llewellin

Art Matters show The Body Is Obsolete, co-curated by Alissa Jafiarova and Claudia Burneo, probes questions of how nature and technology interact and how that interaction, in... » Full Story

March 9, 2010 News

Greening the Plateau

Green roofs and streets in Project Montreal’s urban lab

by Tom Llewellin

“Public spaces should really be for the public and not for cars,” said Car Free Mile-End founder Mathieu Vick at Greening the Plateau, an event organized by the Mennonite... » Full Story

February 9, 2010 Opinions

Police brutality forum sells itself short

Concordia-endorsed event boxes itself in with confused media policy

by Tom Llewellin

The event’s organizers have, by trying to offer much-needed safety for police victims, overstepped their bounds and sadly limited their message to the confines of a... » Full Story

February 9, 2010 Fringe Arts

Home is where the autoharp is

Ontarian multi-instrumentalist Basia Bulat takes new album on the road

by Tom Llewellin

On the heels of a gig in Brooklyn, Basia Bulat reflected on the recording process for Heart Of My Own, her recent follow-up to Polaris Music Prize-nominated Oh My... » Full Story

February 9, 2010 News

Bixi expands across the world

More bikes and stations expected in service’s second year in Montreal

by Tom Llewellin

After a successful first-season run, with over one million rides logged, Montreal’s public bicycle service Bixi is preparing to expand to four other cities worldwide in its... » Full Story
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