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Busk a Move

Kingston plays host to numerous notable festivals throughout the summer, including last weekend’s hugely successful Limestone City Blues Fest.  These events not only pack the streets, restaurants and stores with paying customers, but they also create an unmistakable buzz and elevate the spirit of the entire community.  In between the Blues Fests, Busker’s Rendezvous, [...]

31Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

It’s not a secret that Queen’s University is under served by their performing arts venues, as Grant Hall, Theological Hall and Harrison LeCaine are simply lacking in too many key areas to be effective.  Since coming to Kingston, I’ve attended more student musicals and drama performances elsewhere in the city, than those that were hosted [...]

18Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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What if Kingston…

If you take a stroll around the campus at Queen’s University, you’ll be treated to a high concentration of outdoor art installations including Iron Man, Sakkarah, Thataway Again, Bent Yellow, A Minute of My Time, Untitled, and many more.  However, when you venture outside of the Queen’s bubble, you’ll notice far fewer oversized works.  Sure [...]

18May2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 9 comments | Continued
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ACMF2010 Animation Workshop Video

As a part of the Apple Crisp Music Festival 2010 (ACMF2010) which went down over the March Break, Josh Lyon and Lenny Epstein put on a fantastic animation workshop for kids.  I must admit that I am really interested in trying my hand at this sort of thing, but I took the hint when [...]

25Mar2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Last night I ventured over to 108 Charles Street to check out The Happiness Project, which is a multidisciplinary exhibition that is based on Charles Spearin’s record of the same name.  A stellar cast of Kingston, Toronto and Montreal-based artists including Josh Lyon, Annie Clifford, Marney McDiarmid, Don Maynard, Jon Claytor, Nicole Aline Legault, [...]

19Mar2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Libraries Are For Lovers (Of Books)

Here’s the thing about the library: we don’t really shush people anymore. Also, we like to believe that everyone knows how awesome we are, but the other night when I mentioned KFPL’s amazing downloadable media collection to a friend and they were all “WHAAAA” and I was all “WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW?” I realized that [...]

18Mar2010 | Caitlin Fralick | 8 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Just before I climbed into bed last night, I marvelled at the flurries that were sticking to almost everything outside. It made for a majestic scene in our backyard, as the tree branches and shrubbery looked as though someone had painted them with fluffy flakes of snow. This morning I woke up to [...]

26Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Mouthy Features Local Stories, Storytellers

Mouthy provides a forum for guests to dabble in engaging storytelling by featuring a different theme each month. On Tuesday night, the group met at The Artel to share compelling tales with a Kingston flavour.

25Feb2010 | Matt Gardner | 0 comments | Continued
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Queen’s TEDx Provides Food for Thought

They’re in the business of ideas…and business is booming.

10Feb2010 | Matt Gardner | 3 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

By now you should know the routine. Each and every week Kingstonist publishes Friday Foto, which showcases outstanding images taken by local photogs. We rely entirely on Flickr for all of our photographic needs.  While some Flickr users subscribe to creative commons licensing, a vast majority of people maintain full copyright over their [...]

15Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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