WHAT: Spacing Montréal launch party!
WHEN: Sunday, Sept. 23rd, 7:30pm
WHERE: le Cagibi (5490 St-Laurent, at the corner of St-Viateur)
HOW: free/PWYC
As we’ve previously mentioned, Spacing has expanded its online coverage to include the wonderful city of Montréal. Our contributors have been blogging away for over a month now and have created a body of posts for you to read through, if your heart so desires.
If you’re looking for an excuse to go to Montréal for a weekend, Spacing is throwing a launch party for the Spacing Montréal blog on Sunday, September 23rd at the charming little club le Cagibi. We’ll have a DJ spinning some tunes, photos of Montréal (captured by our contributors) projected onto the walls, plus a few activities.
If you have friends in Montréal let them know about this fun little party. Spacing has thrown over 20 events here in Toronto but this is our first out-of-town event. Help us make it as successful as our Toronto-based bashes. Also, feel free to let us know if you’re willing to make the trip.
UPDATE: We’ve added a Facebook event listing if you wish to share this with your friends.
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If I can get a good French translation of the invitation, we could send out a message to our fairly sizable Montréal mailing list.
A detail:In the french translation I recommend you change Partie de Lancement for “Party de Lancement” or “Fete de Lancement” to make it more understandable for french-montrealers.
You know, it’s OK to write Montreal without the accent if you’re writing in English.
Is there a facebook event invite for this?
Isn’t awkward French endearing the way awkward English is?
KateM — since the blog is bilingual using the accent is more than appropriate. And, to be honest, it’s a sign of respect, which should be commended not ridiculed (tho, I doubt Kate was trying to ridicule Spacing, just an FYI I suspect).
It’s always amusing to see people from outside Quebec trying to be super politically correct by overbalancing in favour of Quebec’s francophones. But Montreal has a history in English as well as French and that history is worthy of just as much respect.
In any case, http://www.spacingmontréal.ca/ gives a 404. Even in Quebec we don’t use accented characters in URLs.
being a montrealer and a visible minority, who has to deal with the world of the language police, and other infantile race issues of the quebecois nationalist– about language protection etc..
any opportunity to be not politically correct with the french language is a welcomed one.
This is actually all sort of interesting. Apart from the actual stuff being written about on Spacing Montr-al, this may be the first instance we find the cultures of the two cities are different (that is, a thing in one city doesn’t really exist in the other). I’m sure there will be more.
It’s not just people from outside Quebec, Kate M — it’s also the many who were outside Quebec and have come to live in Montreal. Who, I’ve noticed, have an interesting (if weird) tendency to try and pronounce all street names as if they had been intended to be in French. It seems to last 2-3 years.
And yes, Shawn, that — anyway — can be endearing. Or irritating, depending.
Speaking of which: I think your fete de lancement (sorry — no accents on this keyboard) is at le Cagibi, not le Cabigi. (A cagibi is sort of a shack. A cabigi is, I don’t know, something cabbagey?)
Where is the Cabbagetownish part of Montreal?
I recently told somebody who just moved from MTL’s N.D.G. to TO’s High Park that it was the same thing.
I always put the accent in Montréal just to demonstrate to Windows users how éasy it is on a Mac 😉