Howdy!

Lots and lots of stuff today! And in no particular order. L'avenir de l'est has 236 words on an exhibition by students from the Centre Ressources-Loisirs Roussin. Apparently, there were more than 600 visitors (wicked cool!) I always like it when attendance figures are given. As there were 92 artists involved, Steve Caron doesn't say much about any of the art in particular.

Then, they also have a very long article (474 words) by Caroline Bourgeois about Lucie Raymond. Who is having an exhibition at Caserne 18-30. Very nicely done, I like the fact that it is not a reprint of a press release.

Over at the Flambeau de l'est André Desroches does his mitzvah for the week by using 199 words from the press release of "quinzaine culturelle Le 3e Art"

Then Marie Ève Courchesne writes 152 words about an exhibition at the centre de loisirs Notre-Dame-des-Victoires. Again it seems that attendance figure are more important than the actual art, and over three days they got 1,000 pairs of eyes in the door. I'm a tad miffed that I missed it, but I am thankful for the picture which in this case IS worth a 1,000 words, so I figure that I should revise that to read "Marie Ève Courchesne writes 1,152 words."

The organizers of the event: Hélène Fafard, présidente, Colette St-Hilaire, vice-présidente, Madelaine Leclerc, trésorière, Philippe Valois, directeur général du centre, et Robert Perron. (Photo : Sylvain Ryan)

Ms. Courchesne continues with a 313 word article about a photography competition and exhibit at la maison de la culture Mercier. Not an awful lot of information, nor any kick ass photos, but apparently there were 400 photos and Nicole Nadon won the prize.

Then we switch over to the heavyweights, it seems that La Presse published 706 words by Jerome Delgado about Petites pièces, grands espaces, at Occurrence AFTER I did my review round up. Well they can't get away with it, I'll write about this week! And it is generally well done. But the thing that gets my goat is how there are (by my count) over 175 galleries here in town and the major reviewers can't but trip all over themselves to review the same shows. You'd figure that since the same people read Voir as read La Presse, that Nicholas Mavrikakis and Mr. Delgado could figure out different things to write about, especially since their reviews are pretty much the same thing.

From Mr. Delgado: "Reprenant l'idée du film Being John Malkovich de Spike Jonze, Salida de emergencia (Sortie de secours) repose sur une intrigante porte de la hauteur d'une maison de poupées."