The top 5 things to do in Montreal: June 12 to June 22
Ever wondered what fine arts students get up to? Here’s your answer. | Photo courtesy of the FOFA Gallery
This week looks so sweet, we’ll let it speak for itself.
1. LAST CHANCE
Fine Arts Graduating Students’ Exhibition | Till June 13 | Free
Ever wondered what Concordia’s fine arts students get up to? Well, now you have the answer.
Check out the work or John Gunner, who favours a chaotic painting style, and Bernadette O’Sullivan, who reimagines the body in different media.
Gestural sculptures, animated films and paintings, both meta and historic, will be on show.
Find out more about Fine Arts Graduating Students’ Exhibition.
2. TOTALLY RANDOM AND POTENTIALLY AWESOME
Literary Pajama Party | June 12, 9 p.m. | $42.50
Leave those suave duds in the closet — it’s time to break out the jammies.
Authors Kim Thúy, Claudia Larochelle and Alain Bonté will tell stories. You may or may not want to bring a teddy bear.
Find out more about Literary Pajama Party.
Watch a sneak peek.
3. WE ALL LIVE IN A GIANT TRAMPOLINE
iSaute | Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-midnight; Sunday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. | One hour for $14; two for $22
Guess what? Laval has a new 20,000-square-foot “extreme trampoline park.”
Knock ‘em dead with a backflip, then squeeze in an alley-oop slam dunk on the (trampoline) basketball courts. Smash your opponents at (trampoline) dodge ball, and see who can cross the slackline without doing the (trampoline) chicken dance.
And yes, there’s a foam pit, too.
4. FRANCOFOLIES DE MONTRÉAL
Corneille | June 14 | $32.87
Grand Corps Malade | June 20 | $53.96 to $61.18
The Francofolies involve 70 indoor shows and 180 free outdoor concerts this year.
If you’re into rap or slam, the fest has a couple of big names this year: Corneille on June 14 and Grand Corps Malade on June 20.
5. THE BIG TICKET
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Come and See | Till August 31 | Free
These two brothers/no-longer-so-Young British Artists spend their time taking on the history of art and our consumer culture with a seriously dark dose of pitch-black humour.
Come and See — an exhibition of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, film, music and more — came together in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries in London, United Kingdom.
Stop by and see skeletons hang onto killer whales for dear life, dozens of crucified Ronald McDonalds and toy warriors who ride into battle on the backs of tortoises. Oh, and did we mention the T. Rex?
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Andy Fidel is a Montreal-based freelance journalist, photographer and writer with dreams of living on a submarine. She enjoys metro rides, writer's block and cold instant coffee.