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Editorial

Balancing on the edge

We at Montréal Serai are overwhelmed by the response to our call – a response by writers, artists, poets and performers, sharing their experiences, at times highly personal, within this new state of the world.


Algebra Tibe and an Interview with Sinbad Richardson

Algebra Tibe and an Interview with Sinbad Richardson

It’s Algebra Tibe! If someone only likes you 6 out of 10 you can tutor them to like you more. Sinbad Richardson is a Montreal animator and filmmaker. He has filmed numerous shorts and also directed/created music videos for many […]


Holy singularity, time to test Turing.

Holy singularity, time to test Turing.

Why does Keanu Reeves act like a robot? The “singularity” (in its non-mathematical sense at least) is the purported point in time when machines take over the world – Matrix style. Ok, maybe that is a crude description of the […]


Duets for Abdelrazik

Duets for Abdelrazik

The first repetitive notes of piano announce a call to remember; a drawn out saxophone note responds. We are off for the 44 minute improv voyage that makes up Duets for Abdelrazik. If it seems like an unlikely name for […]


Flawed heroines and heroes are the ones that I like

Flawed heroines and heroes are the ones that I like

(a song inspired by my anti-Hero of folk) Sometimes I feel like a nut In the last couple of days two separate people have asked me “What is your favourite band? What is your favourite song?” Both times I was […]


Varnam

Varnam

  A deluge of water filled up the Sunday morning I went to see Varnam at the 35th edition of Montreal’s World Film Festival. On the way to the theatre, I biked and waded through meandering streams coursing through the […]


Archiving new forms of musical notation – John Cage’s legacy continues in Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21

Archiving new forms of musical notation – John Cage’s legacy continues in Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21

Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer. Mark Batty Publisher 2009. Hardcover: 320 pages. Reproduced partial images are with permission of the publisher as stated for purposes of a review of the work.   Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer is a collection […]


Hanging out with musical revolutionaries

Hanging out with musical revolutionaries

  I’ve known Jason Breckenridge for many years and over that time the two insights I’ve gained about what makes him tick are 1) He concocts the most ridiculously unattainable schemes in an effort to make his working life as […]


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    Art

    Slouching Towards Peace

    Beverly Monk
  • Qingshuiyan Temple, 2021 © Zheng Mingqing, courtesy of the photographer
    Poetry

    The Priests Have Been Arrested

    Catherine Herrmann
  • Oliver Jones mural in Little Burgundy – photo © Ceta Gabriel
    Autofiction

    One Crows’ Sorrow, Two Crows’ Joy

    Ceta Gabriel
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    Cora Dean
  • Gandhi, Salt March, April 5, 1930
    Creative Non-fiction

    Peace in a Grain of Salt

    Muhammad Manji
  • Bahram Azimi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Essay

    Finding Peace Through Contentious Conversations

    Noor Musawi
  • Photo Ali Hamad, APA images, Oct. 7, 2023 via Wiki Palestine
    Poetry

    fragmented

    shailee
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    Art

    Creation Story Series

    Sri theyvi
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