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Canada – the Montreal Album

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With Dr Susan Cahill at the Irish Studies’ Centre in Concordia University, Montreal

Next stop on our tour of Canada was the Blue Met Festival, Montreal. Click on images to go large/get info/scroll

Is this Diagon Alley?
Drawn & Quarterly bookshop at Mile End (where William Shatner grew up)
There was a mural festival going on on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
mural festival on Boulevard St Laurent
Deirdre and the bird cages
Arret!
Marilyn
China Town
China Town
Golden birds, lobby Édifice Aldred, Art Deco in Vieux Montreal
Édifice Aldred -Art Deco in Vieux Montreal
Art Deco lift – lobby of Édifice Aldred
stained glass window in Basilique Notre Dame
Basilique Notre Dame de Montreal
Édifice Aldred -Art Deco, Montreal
Poutine! French fries in gravy with cheese curds.
Moomins at Drawn & Quarterly
Deirdre reads from her CBI award-winning novel, Needlework
Susan gives me an intro
Dave reading from Knights of the Borrowed Dark
Costumes for the ballet at the fabulous Marc Chagall exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts

Then it was off on a train to the capital, writing as we went…

London Street Art

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‘That’s a Bansky,’ I said.

‘Nah’ said Ann and Michael. ‘Can’t be…’

‘I think it is,’ I said.

‘What makes you think that?’

‘Dunno. Looks familiar. Maybe it isn’t.’

Then we noticed there was perspex protecting the piece. Which is kinda ironic, given the message – ‘IF GRAFFITI CHANGED ANYTHING -IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL’. The image – which apparently appeared in Fitzrovia in  2011– has attracted further graffiti, including the badly placed ‘VERY.’ and a sarcastic exchange about said perspex.

The selection of spectacular street art below is stuff we came across in Spitalfields, well worth clicking on to get bigger images.

Arrows shot from a huge bow on opposite roof
Monkey see, Monkey do
check out the bricks on the right
Image in window is scratched out of the white paint in reverse

Below are pieces, old and new, from various places around the city.

Hoarding
Art installations on Whitecross St
Warren Street, Smugglers’ Tavern
Installations on Whitecross St
Tree stump dragon in Vauxhall
Up yours?
Spitalfields bakery