THURSDAY EVENING CHAT-UP

Thursday Evening Chat-Up
In collaboration with
The Gazette

Montreal's #14

Thursday May 16, 2013 at 7PM, FREE

Montreal has its own Number 14 bus line, but did you know that it used to be a trolleybus line- that its number was changed because of the metro and that an entirely different Number 14 line existed during the tramway’s era?

Benoit Clairoux has a passion for the history of public transportation in Montreal. He is the author of the book Le métro de Montréal, 35 ans déjà, published in 2001, and works at the STM’s Public Affairs Department since 2002. Join him as he shares his passion with David Johnston, Communities Editor at The Gazette.

SEAGRAM ART GALLERY

LOCAL OBSERVATIONS – SCENES FROM THE BUS

April 25 to May 26
FREE

Artist Reb Frost was born and raised in the farming community of Wentworth County, Southern Ontario. She arrived and settled in Montreal in the late 1970’s.

Reb is an independent urban artist, living in Verdun Quebec. She is mainly self-taught with additional training from Concordia University Montreal (Fine Arts Painting and Drawing)

She presently works for McGill University.

The paintings, illustrations and experimental photography that she produces depict working class areas in around the city of Montreal. Her works are a visual journey of Montreal, documenting bus rides, buildings and local people as they go about their daily lives in the city.

She spends many hours per week, sketching and painting the interesting people and scenes that she comes across while riding the buses here in Montreal.

“I am just one stranger on a bus, and life can be very anonymous in a large city. Even when you are seated beside someone, so close that you can touch them, you will never really know them. So I imagine that I know them and I paint their story.”

Her works include illustrations and paintings of Pointe St. Charles and Southwest Montreal street scenes, including an extensive amount of experimental, photographic images of the city and surrounding areas.

Thirty percent of the proceeds from the exhibition in Centaur’s Seagram Gallery will go directly to support the Theatre’s activities. Thank you!