Exhibits and arts news:
Linda Rutenberg:
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Submissions are now open! SSNAP 2025/26 is here.
We invite visual artists from across Canada, at all career stages, to enter their work for a chance to win a share of $52,000 in awards. This is your opportunity to showcase your creativity and gain national recognition.
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Art at the McGill Rare Books Library:
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Friends of the McGill Libraries - 2025 Shakespeare Lecture (hybrid). The Friends of the McGill Libraries, in partnership with the Stratford Festival, are thrilled to announce the 2025 Annual Shakespeare Lecture, which will explore how Shakespeare’s timeless characters and stories can help reconnect money-making with meaning-making.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 18:15 to 19:15, Moot Court. Enter through the Nahum Gelber Law Library and turn left, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9.
Registration:
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At the McCord:
Northern Artists, Southern Markets: Commercializing Inuit Art for the Artists, Wednesday, January 15, 2025, from 6 to 7 p.m.
Free Activity | Space is limited, Reservation required:
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A look back at 2024 at Place des Arts:
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Top 15 ballerinas:
Ballet shoes take a beating:
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It was a special Hanukkah this season for the community at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount. A silver-plated menorah from its Museum collection was chosen for Canada Post's annual Hanukkah stamp. It is a captivating heirloom with a long history, from pre-war Europe to Montreal. Two guests joined Daybreak's Sean Henry to unspool its history: Rabbi Lisa Grushcow and Louis Charbonneau, congregant and co-chair of the synagogue's Aron Museum.
More of Canada’s beautiful postage stamps celebrating great Canadians, celebrations, and places:
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Daily Haiga – Maxianne Berger:
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Royal Portraits – Annie Leibovitz:
c/o Wikipedia
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Amélie Fortin piano and photography:
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Bread:
A Slow Rise - Favorite Recipes from Four Decades of Baking with Heart by Daniel Leader. Decades before sourdough took over Instagram, Daniel Leader was making his first celebrated loaves at Bread Alone, his pioneering upstate New York bakery. From revolutionizing artisan breadmaking in the eighties to operating the country’s first carbon-neutral bakery today, Bread Alone has existed at the cutting edge of bread and pastry for over forty years. A Slow Rise charts its legendary history and showcases its most beloved recipes.
Interview on The Current:
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Best cookbooks this year. From recipes to music and everything in between, there was plenty to recommend in 2024. Here are our guests' favourites from this year.
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More at the McGill Rare Books Library:
Janet Theophano concluded that “a cookbook is a communal affair,” even when the product of a single author. Community and church cookbooks, often called fundraising cookbooks, further embody this truth, embracing the communal practice of recipe creation and curation that is eventually captured within a book’s covers. These books are collaboratively created with contributions of recipes and content by members of the congregation. Common in the 19th century and even to this day, community cookbooks are often locally produced collections of recipes contributed by members of a church or school group. These are often very low-budget productions, with 20th-century examples often being spiral-bound, photo-copied, self-illustrated or even hand-written and copied. Eventually, some publishing houses specialized in printing and producing these cookbooks, such as Morris Press (Nebraska), Rasmussen Gateway Press in Manitoba.
The exhibit was curated by the staff at the Marvin Duchow Music Library. It is in the display cases just outside the Music Library entrance as well as in the display case on the 3rd floor next to the Service desk. Music in the making will run until February 28, 2025, and is open during the branch’s opening hours.
Exhibit | Chant Alive! An exhibit mounted in collaboration with the McGill Schulich School of Music and Montreal’s Ensemble Scholastica. Assembled with considerable acumen over 150 years, Rare Books and Special Collections of the McGill University Libraries maintains a significant collection of two hundred and fifty European medieval manuscripts, each one presenting unusual or exquisite scripts, notations, and decoration.
The exhibit, When There Are No Words, addresses the subjects of death and grief in Québec society through the lens of colour, symbols, printed texts, and handwritten messages found in sympathy cards from the last 150 years. It also includes a selection of condolence objects provided by the Organ and Tissue Donation Program of the McGill University Health Centre as an illustration of a different expression of sympathy. Presented by the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Maude Abbott Medical Museum, and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. Accessible during opening hours. Vernissage: January 22, 2025, at 17:00.
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Winter Souvenir Book of Montreal:
Happy New Year!
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