Gabriel Safdie’s latest book, Affair with China, shares insights into his experiences in China over 4 decades. His work offers a rare, lived perspective on China’s evolution—including his time in Beijing leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests—one that moves beyond headlines to reveal the nuanced realities of a rapidly changing society. This unique body of work bridges photography, memoir, and cultural reflection.

https://www.gabrielsafdie.com/biography

Canadiensis – Letters from Canada/Lettere dal Canada

A bilingual (ENGLISH/ITALIAN) newsletter by Arianna Dagnino and Stefano Gulmanelli on Canada’s past, present, and future.

Newsletter bilingue sul Canada in un mondo che cambia

https://canadiensis.substack.com/archive

https://canadiensis.substack.com

CANADIENSIS is a bilingual (ENGLISH/ITALIAN) space, dedicated to independent journalism and socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Canada, created by Dr. Arianna Dagnino and Dr. Stefano Gulmanelli. We are journalists, writers, and researchers (University of British Columbia) with over thirty years of experience documenting the political and cultural transformations and socio-economic trends of the places where we have lived and travelled — from South Africa to Australia, from China to Jordan — always with the belief that rigorous, independent storytelling can contribute to knowledge and foster dialogue.

https://www.infinitheatre.com

Mona Lissa Chanda has graced the stage at renowned festivals such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival and POP Montreal, showcasing her ability to connect with diverse audiences through her versatile and engaging performances.

Beyond her interpretations of standards, Mona Lissa shines as a composer in her own right, crafting modern-day torch songs and lounge-pop music inspired by timeless classics.

Visit the website:

https://monalissamusic.com/home--2

Welcome to the 2026 academic year!

WEBSITE: https://thomasmore.qc.ca 

COURSE PROGRAM: https://courses.thomasmore.qc.ca/product-category/spring-2026 

Our MAILING ADDRESS is: THOMAS MORE INSTITUTE, 3405 Atwater Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada Montreal, QC H3H 1Y2 Canada 

Montreal Serai

Montréal Serai is a non-profit webzine focused on arts, culture and politics. We began in 1986 as a local theatre and arts collective that went on to produce a print magazine before going digital. Our driving force: creating new communities, new arts, new solidarities, where voices once relegated to the margins take centre stage.

http://www.montrealserai.com

I read a fascinating illustrated memoir, by artist Géraldine Sadlier, entitled MADAME D.

Visit her FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/geraldinesadlier

Visit her web site: https://geraldinesadlier.com

Behind the Moon, 3-19 April, 2026

Teesri Duniya Theatre

Cité-des-Hospitalières 251 Avenue des Pins Ouest, #148, Montreal, QC H2W1R5

Website: https://teesriduniyatheatre.com/project/behind-the-moon

2026 BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL, MONTREAL

In person from April 23 to 26, 2026. Online starting April 13

https://bluemetropolis.org

Between 1870 and the late 1930s more than 100,000 children from orphanages and ‘homes’ in the British Isles were sent to ‘distribution homes’ in Canada where they were indentured as farm hands and servants to families in need of cheap labour. These little immigrants became known as ‘home children’.

Among them was Joseph Henry Hughes.

FREE DOWNLOADS

FREE DOWNLOADS: The FUNLIT SERIES of MILLENNIUM TALES, Interactive Version. Four original fairy tales, featuring illustrated story text, audio story narration, music and sound effects, factual and discussion questions, literacy exercises and skill sheets, reproducible worksheets, answer key, teacher's guide, teacher and student scoresheets, corresponding classroom play script, and more.

DOWNLOAD the complete FUNLIT SERIES, in Interactive PDF format.

WEBSITE: https://princechameleon.com/HomePage

Compliments of Prince Chameleon Press

Welcome to Gryphon Bakery

Producing quality products for over 25 years

5833 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H4A 1X4. (Corner Regent Avenue)

https://www.gryphonbakery.com

WALDENSONG SATURNALIA

Tribute to the Mythic Years

Abandoned by her vast chaotic family, a young girl recreates them into legend. The novel is a fusion of memory and imagination, both humorous and dramatic. Shifting between Old Europe and the New World, it features the idiom of London’s East End, blending into the language of poetry and myth.

An excerpt from WALDENSONG SATURNALIA was short-listed for the Eastside Stories Competition, London, U.K.

FREE DOWNLOAD

88-page Self-Publishing Workbook from Prince Chameleon Press

The Self Publishing Workbook From Prince Chameleon Press

NATIVE-IMMIGRANT: A personal journey into our home and native land tells the story of discovering that, as an immigrant, I have much more in common with First Nations. Immigrants are the Last Nations; together, we are the ongoing human flow of the displaced, the multicultural offspring of colonization.

Shakespeare’s Thinking Machine: The Tempest

Thomas More Institute

3405 Atwater Avenue

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

4:00 p.m.

FREE

Param des Arts proudly presents the 11th Edition of Montreal Natyanjali, a vibrant showcase of Indian classical dance.

10th Edition of the Annual Fair, Quebec Reads Saturday and Sunday, 6–7 December, 2025 celebrating Quebec’s English-language publishers and writers.

Montreal School of Performing Arts & UNIA present Seven Short Xmas Plays

Adapted by Josa Maule; Directed by Daisy Thomas & Josa Maule

Artist, INGRID STYLE

Ingrid Style was born in England and spent her formative years in Brazil before pursuing her art studies at the Ontario College of Art.

Her focus has been the human figure, and her work reflects the magical and whimsical graphic expressions of great English artists such as Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts and Arthur Rackham. Some of Style's larger works are coloured with a tropical brilliance that recalls Byzantine mosaics and the paintings of Gustave Klimt.

In her drawings, expressive faces and figures emerge from entwined volutes and entanglements suggesting the struggle of birth as well as the search for release from anguish.

BAGLADY

BAGLADY Novel Chapter One

FREE DOWNLOAD

Baglady Novel MEDIA KIT

FREE DOWNLOAD

THE BAGLADY CHRONICLES

BAGLADY-IN-WAITING

BAGLADY-AT-LARGE

BAGLADY-IN-FREE-FALL

CBC Interview

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6569115

Monkland Community Centre between Nov. 28 and Dec. 8, 2024

https://www.broadwayworld.com/montreal/regionalshows/MONKLAND-COMMUNITY-CENTER