Haunted Montreal, a company that conducts Ghost Walks and carries out research into Montreal hauntings, is pleased to announce that it now offers tours in both English and French! For its 2016 public season, Ghost Walks will alternate between Griffintown and Mount Royal every Friday night, from June 3rd to October 7th. “Haunted Montreal is expanding,” said […]
The Montreal Irish Walking Tour is back, just in time to complement this year’s annual “Walk to the Stone”! For over 150 years, the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) has been leading this pilgrimage to the Irish Stone at the foot of the Victoria Bridge, the site of Montreal’s Irish Famine Cemetery where approximately 6,000 typhus […]
WTF?! (What the Fr*nge?!) is a new performance being developed by Donovan King for the 2016 Buffalo Infringement Festival and beyond. WTF?! (What the Fr*nge?!) is a probing, theatrical lecture that exposes how corporate pressure co-opts and harms grassroots culture. Highlighting the infringement philosophy within the increasingly corporate world, where even the word “Fringe” is trademarked, it […]
Listen to Donovan King discuss refugees and education in Quebec on CBC Radio (recorded on November 30th, 2015):
Car Stories is coming once again to the Buffalo Infringement Festival! Created in Montreal in 2001 and promptly kicked out of the so-called St. Ambroise Fringe Festival after a corporate sponsor was offended, Car Stories had to quit the corporate Fringe and redesign the game. As such, the infringement festival was born in 2004 to […]
Montreal’s infamous infringement festival runs June 17 – 21, 2015! Celebrating its 12th edition, the infringement fest has been sticking it to the man for over a decade! When Montreal artists protested the trademarking of the word “Fringe” in 2004 with an “infringement festival”, they never expected their activist gesture would blossom into the international movement of […]
Kate McGillivray of CBC Homerun (Radio One) interviewed Donovan King of Haunted Montreal in Dominion Square (a.k.a. Saint-Antoine Cholera Cemetery) on May 15, 2015. McGillivray and King discuss the new Haunted Montreal Blog, public season of ghost tours starting with Haunted Mountain on Friday, May 22, and local tales of haunted places and strange happenings. Listen […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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