Rosalyn Green’s Polidori’s Vampire is a feast for the literary-minded, full of high-brow banter and Romantic references. (Lindsay Duncan)
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Student plays dramatize the domestic
The domestic is a setting rife with familiarity. It’s accessible to its audience, common, homespun—in other words, dull and overused.
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Polaroids and parody; Barbeau finds art
Our lives are completely conventional. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It simply means that we are forced to make ourselves at home in a place that we did not create. From the very start we are subjected to norms, marketing campaigns, the Internet and Barbara Walters. And if you ask me, this isn’t a recipe for quietism. It simply means we need to continually work at negotiating our identities, never stopping to assert, “Finally, this is the real me.” For instance, I used to like unicorns. Now I like Lululemon.
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Art as outreach
Low-key and indistinct from the outside, 173 Princess St. is a large, beautiful space, a former video rental store and is currently the home to an unusual art exhibit this week called Art On The Street, courtesy of the Street Health Centre. An outreach centre that provides medical and psychological care for people with addictions and living on the street, Kingston’s Street Health Centre is a place of refuge for Kingston residents facing tough times.
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DeMaes grow places
If bands could go through puberty, Montreal’s the Darling DeMaes would be pimply-faced and squeaky-voiced. The band’s lead singer and guitarist, Erik Virtanen, moved to Montreal from Vancouver Island last year. He started playing music at open mic nights around the city, and through that met a Quebecer named Buz. Elysia Torneria, who sings and plays the glockenspiel, came to some of their early shows and eventually joined the band, who are playing at the Artel tonight.
