Montreal is widely-regarded as the most haunted city in Canada, prompting thrill-seekers and ghost-hunters to visit in greater and greater numbers every year. The haunted tourism industry is booming as visitors seek out ghost tours, haunted hotels, paranormal investigations and other terrifying experiences! To support this growing obsession with ghosts, hauntings and the paranormal, Haunted Montreal is […]
Founded in Montreal in 2004 to protest the commercialization and trademarking of the once-grassroots Fringe Festival, the infringement festival attempts to reclaim culture by empowering artists and communities to work independent of corporate manipulation. This year the infringement movement is especially thrilled to welcome a new festival, the Columbia Infringement Festival, into the fold. Emily […]
This Hallowe’en season, Donovan King is pleased to offer Haunted Downtown Montreal, a new ghost tour for 2014! Downtown Montreal is a very busy and bustling place. With towering skyscrapers and a professional workforce that empties out by 5 p.m., it’s the last place one would expect to encounter the paranormal. However, just beneath the veneer […]
When infringement festival founder Donovan King was invited to the first-ever World Fringe Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, he thought there had been a mistake! After being kicked out of the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2001 for criticizing a corporate sponsor, King has made a point of crusading to protect Fringe Festivals from excessive corporate interference in order […]
Optative Theatrical Laboratories is thrilled to bring CAR STORIES to the 2014 Buffalo Infringement Festival! Kicked out of the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2001, Car Stories sparked the creation of infringement festivals! Set in real cars, 3 people at a time are invited on a theatrical joyride through the streets and parking lots of Allentown. […]
At the northern end of Montreal’s Victoria Bridge, criss-crossed by an urban blight of highways, railway tracks, parking lots, electricity pylons and industrial billboards, lies an old Irish Famine cemetery. It is a hallowed place in Montreal’s dark history that witnessed tragedy unfold in 1847, as typhus-stricken Irish immigrants disembarked after harrowing conditions at sea […]
After five intensive days featuring dozens of performances in 10 venues, the 2014 Montreal infringement festival has wrapped up, energized more than ever before! Festival-goers were treated to a variety of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) performances in strikingly different locations all over the city. Starting at Labo de la Taverne Jarry, the festival then meandered all over […]
Montreal’s infringement festival is one of the city’s most amazing cultural exports and has inspired a whole new way of doing the arts in cities and countries far beyond Montreal’s island shores. In 2014, the Infringement Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary with 3 festivals in 2 countries, and a plan to provoke critical discussions […]
To celebrate Montreal’s festive, yet creepy 2013 Hallowe’en season, the spine-tingling Haunted Mountain Walking Tour is back! Several dates are being offered to the public, for the first time private tours are available, and a new website has been launched at www.hauntedmountain.com ! Public Dates: The Haunted Mountain tour is open to the public on the […]
Culture is a hot topic in this Montreal election, so citizens, get your burning questions ready for the candidates! Following two administrations characterized by corruption, cultural destruction, and disrespect for citizen initiatives, Montrealers are praying that the next one isn’t yet another dud. While transparency and professionalism are both hot topics in this election, so is Culture […]
