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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim was published exactly one year ago. Thanks so much to everyone who read it. And everyone who wrote about it. It’s been really beautiful to receive so many different and insightful reactions. You can order it here. And Junction Reads has just written this very nice review.
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September 16, 2025
September 10, 2025
PME-ART's Relay-Interview Party / Thursday October 2nd, 7pm-9pm
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Relay-Interview Party
Thursday October 2nd, 7pm-9pm at the MAI Café Bar (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) / FREE ADMISSION
Beautiful changes are happening for Montréal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART, both internal and external. Beginning now, PME-ART will open each new season with a Relay-Interview Party. This is a chance for the community to meet us, meet each other, and get a taste for how the PME-ART process works. It’s also a chance to think alongside us about the theme for our upcoming cycle of creation: How Does Change Happen?
Relay-Interview is a ridiculously simple game for having unexpected conversations, like a relay race but for asking and answering questions. Please join us on Thursday October 2nd at the MAI Café Bar (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) from 7-9 PM for questions, answers, snacks, and drinks. Come to learn Relay-Interview (an open-source activity which anyone can use for their own artistic processes) and begin our season with us - which is also the official start of PME-ART's next evolution!
If you have ever been interested in co-creating with us, auditioning, or proposing activities, this is the perfect space to tell us who you are, what drives your heart, and how we could walk together in the future. All disciplines, identities, and experience levels are welcome.
Facebook event
PME-ART now has an Instagram. And you can also subscribe to the PME-ART newsletter here.
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Relay-Interview Party
Thursday October 2nd, 7pm-9pm at the MAI Café Bar (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) / FREE ADMISSION
Beautiful changes are happening for Montréal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART, both internal and external. Beginning now, PME-ART will open each new season with a Relay-Interview Party. This is a chance for the community to meet us, meet each other, and get a taste for how the PME-ART process works. It’s also a chance to think alongside us about the theme for our upcoming cycle of creation: How Does Change Happen?
Relay-Interview is a ridiculously simple game for having unexpected conversations, like a relay race but for asking and answering questions. Please join us on Thursday October 2nd at the MAI Café Bar (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) from 7-9 PM for questions, answers, snacks, and drinks. Come to learn Relay-Interview (an open-source activity which anyone can use for their own artistic processes) and begin our season with us - which is also the official start of PME-ART's next evolution!
If you have ever been interested in co-creating with us, auditioning, or proposing activities, this is the perfect space to tell us who you are, what drives your heart, and how we could walk together in the future. All disciplines, identities, and experience levels are welcome.
Facebook event
PME-ART now has an Instagram. And you can also subscribe to the PME-ART newsletter here.
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September 2, 2025
Two Montreal events in September 2025
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1) Saturday September 20th at 7pm - The Air Contains Honey at Douze Douze
2) Tuesday September 23rd, 7pm / doors at 6:30 - The Longest Way to Eat a Melon at Rocket Science Room
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The Air Contains Honey performs only once a year. This year it will be on Saturday September 20th at 7pm at Sanctuaire Saint-Jude (10120, av. d'Auteuil) as part of Douze Douze, presented by LA SERRE - arts vivants. (Saint Jude is the patron saint of lost causes and hopeless situations, which I believe fits with our vibe.) The Air Contains Honey will start at 7 sharp, and we have to be finished by 7:45 so everyone can join the Burning BRASs Band on parade. This is your one Air Contains Honey chance in 2025 (and its free admission.) There are also many other amazing Douze Douze performances on September 20th - from noon to midnight - which you can find out about here. You can also watch some demos of an earlier version of The Air Contains Honey here. (Album coming in 2026.)
Facebook event
The Air Contains Honey―co-founded by Adam Kinner and Jacob Wren―is an “orchestra” that mixes professional and amateur musicians in search of a warmth and community spirit they may or may not find. All of their songs follow the same basic structure: a quote sung four times, an instrumental break, and then the same quote sung another four times. For the audience, as well as for the performers, this is a chance to hear an orchestra in the process of discovering its sound as it goes.
The Air Contains Honey’s lineup is ever shifting but the performance will likely feature some or all of the following members: Pietro Amato, Patrick Conan, Claudia Fancello, Michael Feuerstack, James Goddard, Thanya Iyer, Adam Kinner, Liam O’Neill, Lara Oundjian, Pompey, Rebecca Rehder, Catherine Fatima, Frédérique Roy, Mulu Tesfu and Jacob Wren.
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Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross launches The Longest Way to Eat a Melon
at Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204)
Tuesday September 23rd, 7pm / doors at 6:30
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross will be in conversation with Carmen Faye Mathes
Plus an opening reading by Jacob Wren
Facebook event
Equal parts melody and malaise, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charts the activities of a cast of speakers who all grapple in their own ways with what it takes to conjure a self in the midst of discordance. A brain argues with a non-brain about how to remain productive from a place of exhaustion; two supernaturally inclined twins named Han are separated at birth; and an emerging artist overwhelmed by possibility considers how best to transform a melon into a breakthrough work of art. Incorporating elements of fable, surrealism, satire, and art and cultural criticism, these stories have a playful peculiarity to them, an interweaving of self-deprecation and curiosity, of woe and hope, of absurdity and humanity. Reader, you will want to savor every bite.
“The cats begin coming through her window. And she feeds them – of course she does – to please nature, to please all animals, to please the mystics, to please the menace, to please the gods. Two at first, then six, then ten, their tawny stripes blending with the dappled light through the waving blinds. Q is friendly with them, even if it is true that she does not know what they get up to in the night. She is learning about and cultivating this kind of acceptance. Violences, valences. They purr and are energetic, even if their company is not the same as friendship, not the same as romantic love. They do have a certain terrible unknowability about them. Q entertains this even while, deep down, she feels fear.”
― Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, The Longest Way To Eat A Melon
1) Saturday September 20th at 7pm - The Air Contains Honey at Douze Douze
2) Tuesday September 23rd, 7pm / doors at 6:30 - The Longest Way to Eat a Melon at Rocket Science Room
1)
The Air Contains Honey performs only once a year. This year it will be on Saturday September 20th at 7pm at Sanctuaire Saint-Jude (10120, av. d'Auteuil) as part of Douze Douze, presented by LA SERRE - arts vivants. (Saint Jude is the patron saint of lost causes and hopeless situations, which I believe fits with our vibe.) The Air Contains Honey will start at 7 sharp, and we have to be finished by 7:45 so everyone can join the Burning BRASs Band on parade. This is your one Air Contains Honey chance in 2025 (and its free admission.) There are also many other amazing Douze Douze performances on September 20th - from noon to midnight - which you can find out about here. You can also watch some demos of an earlier version of The Air Contains Honey here. (Album coming in 2026.)
Facebook event
The Air Contains Honey―co-founded by Adam Kinner and Jacob Wren―is an “orchestra” that mixes professional and amateur musicians in search of a warmth and community spirit they may or may not find. All of their songs follow the same basic structure: a quote sung four times, an instrumental break, and then the same quote sung another four times. For the audience, as well as for the performers, this is a chance to hear an orchestra in the process of discovering its sound as it goes.
The Air Contains Honey’s lineup is ever shifting but the performance will likely feature some or all of the following members: Pietro Amato, Patrick Conan, Claudia Fancello, Michael Feuerstack, James Goddard, Thanya Iyer, Adam Kinner, Liam O’Neill, Lara Oundjian, Pompey, Rebecca Rehder, Catherine Fatima, Frédérique Roy, Mulu Tesfu and Jacob Wren.
2)
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross launches The Longest Way to Eat a Melon
at Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204)
Tuesday September 23rd, 7pm / doors at 6:30
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross will be in conversation with Carmen Faye Mathes
Plus an opening reading by Jacob Wren
Facebook event
Equal parts melody and malaise, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charts the activities of a cast of speakers who all grapple in their own ways with what it takes to conjure a self in the midst of discordance. A brain argues with a non-brain about how to remain productive from a place of exhaustion; two supernaturally inclined twins named Han are separated at birth; and an emerging artist overwhelmed by possibility considers how best to transform a melon into a breakthrough work of art. Incorporating elements of fable, surrealism, satire, and art and cultural criticism, these stories have a playful peculiarity to them, an interweaving of self-deprecation and curiosity, of woe and hope, of absurdity and humanity. Reader, you will want to savor every bite.
“The cats begin coming through her window. And she feeds them – of course she does – to please nature, to please all animals, to please the mystics, to please the menace, to please the gods. Two at first, then six, then ten, their tawny stripes blending with the dappled light through the waving blinds. Q is friendly with them, even if it is true that she does not know what they get up to in the night. She is learning about and cultivating this kind of acceptance. Violences, valences. They purr and are energetic, even if their company is not the same as friendship, not the same as romantic love. They do have a certain terrible unknowability about them. Q entertains this even while, deep down, she feels fear.”
― Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, The Longest Way To Eat A Melon
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