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Hubs & Huddles column of Cannopy Magazine, which focuses on multi-purpose performance centres
Ensemble column, which highlights classical artists and ensen, which highlights classical artists and ensembles
Ellington column, which features jazz vocalists and instrumentalists
Studio Sessions column, which focuses on in-depth artist profiles — particularly visual artists in their creative spaces
Materials column, which focuses on artists working across various creative media; Profiling Various Creative Media
Spaces column, which highlights galleries anSpaces column, which highlights galleries and exhibit venuesd exhibit venues
Fourth Wall column, which focuses on the global theatre industry
 In Motion column, which focuses on the global dance industry
In Focus column, which highlights the global film industry
Alt.itude column, which focuses on global alternative music
Homegrown column, which highlights Canadian alternative music
Arts & Letters column, which focuses on essays, opinions, and ideas related to the arts

LATEST

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Skank Bloc Bologna: Alternative Art Spaces 

ISSUE 15 | BOLOGNA | ARTS & LETTERS

Can art spaces that eschew commercial activity truly sustain themselves without succumbing to corporatization?

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Toronto Summer Music turns 20

ISSUE 15 | TORONTO | HUBS & HUDDLES

INTERVIEW ─ Outgoing Artistic Director Jonathan Crow joins Cannopy for an exit interview before another violinist takes First Chair

Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière
DECA: Alex Kaplan on Vinyl Gone Viral

ISSUE 15 | FORT LAUDERDALE | ALT.ITUDE

For this installation of DECA—our inter-issue series inviting artists to curate top-ten lists—Alex Kaplan shares 10 albums she’s excited to hear on vinyl this spring.

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Off The Record: Peter Gregson 

ISSUE 15 | ENSEMBLE

The Scottish composer, producer, and cellist rediscovers simplicity with his latest self-titled album

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Sebastian Gaskin's  “LOVECHILD”

ISSUE 15 | TORONTO | HOMEGROWN

INTERVIEW — The Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist on his unique mixology of Indigenous and pop idioms

Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière
Shawnee Kish’s Top 10 Influences

ISSUE 14 | HOMEGROWN

Our DECA series invites artists to curate a list of their top-10 influences

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Legends, Myths and Lavender

ISSUE 13 | ENSEMBLE

What happens in Debussy, and in Moccio’s music, is not a direct mimetic relationship of sounds to images but an open mesh of possibilities

Xavier Dolan by Shayne Laverdière
A MOCA Retrospective

ISSUE 14 | TORONTO | SPACES

INTERVIEW — As a trio of fall exhibits wrap up, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reflects on the powers of hybridity

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Top 10 Classical Albums of 2024

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Iron & Wine’s "Light Verse"

ISSUE 13 | NASHVILLE | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW — Sam Beam’s latest release is a colourful contrapposto of gloomy joy

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Off the Record: Justin Orok

ISSUE 15 | TORONTO | HOMEGROWN

INTERVIEW ─ The Canadian folk artist joins “A Cannopy Salon” for a spotlight on his latest album

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“Aperture” shines through a glass brightly

ISSUE 15 | SEATTLE | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW ─ On their sixth studio album, The Head and the Heart looks back in order to move forward

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Showing is Telling: Myth of Man 

ISSUE 15 | KENTUCKY | IN FOCUS

INTERVIEW ─ Where other filmmakers worry you may take something away from their work that they did not intend, the Winans’ are asking you to do so.

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Silly Ceramics and Calaca’s Creatures

ISSUE 15 | PARIS | MATERIALS

“I rarely need to explain myself: this is a blue elephant, he wears a cylinder and smokes a pipe ─ what is unclear here?”

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The Best Classical Albums From January

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In Praise of the Flâneur: Justin Wong

ISSUE 13 | TORONTO | SPACES

The prolific street photographer reveals perspectives on Toronto, Tokyo, and time

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Profile: Sarah Kinsley’s Escaper

ISSUE 14 | ALT.ITUDE

“To have chosen to work with a female producer simply because she was a woman would have risked the integrity of the project.”

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Upcycling: Harford House

ISSUE 13 | MATERIALS

Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”

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Wayne Burns’s Top 10 Canadian Films

ISSUE 13 | TORONTO | IN FOCUS

INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema

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Oriah Wiersma

ISSUE 12 | IN MOTION

What does support for independent Canadian contemporary dance really look like?

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Now on MUBI: Grand Tour

ISSUE 15 | MUBI | In Focus

PROFILE ─ Miguel Gomes’s latest film is a sprawling, messy, and dreamy odyssey that isn’t afraid to throw a few curveballs.

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Off the Record: The Vernon Spring

ISSUE 15 | BRIGHTON | ELLINGTON

INTERVIEW ─ On his latest release, “Under a Familiar Sun”, Sam Beste delivers a deeply empathic pianistic jazztronica

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Off the Record: Gabi Hartmann

ISSUE 15 | PARIS | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW ─ On La femme aux yeux de sel, the emerging singer-songwriter delivers a melange of global music with a French touch

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Off the Record with Lindsay Ell

ISSUE 14 | CALGARY | HOMEGROWN

The generational Canadian talent sets self love to music

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TEA: Hiba Schahbaz

ISSUE 15 | BROOKLYN | MATERIALS

INTERVIEW — Meet the Pakistani-American painter infusing her female figures with a unique stain: black tea

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Profile: Anora

ISSUE 15 | IN FOCUS

Contextualizing Sean Baker’s latest film within cinema’s history of sex-positive self-actualizing female leads

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Lang Lang in France

ISSUE 13 | ENSEMBLE

The superstar Chinese pianist uncovers a garden of Gallic delights

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Phosphorescent Blues

ISSUE 13 | NASHVILLE | ALT.ITUDE

“If you don’t know him, try. If you don’t like him, that’s ok too.”

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Manami Kakudo’s Contact

ISSUE 13 | TOKYO | ALT.ITUDE

“How would my younger self feel listening to this?”

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Facetime: Kachelle Knowles

ISSUE 13 | NASSAU | STUDIO SESSIONS

INTERVIEW — “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”

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MOCA Spring 2025

ISSUE 15 | TORONTO | SPACES

As Toronto’s Sterling Road evolves into a vibrant creative hub, its resident museum-cum-gallery space stays ahead of the curve with innovative exhibits

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Colour Me Senseless: Helen Beard

ISSUE 15 | LONDON | STUDIO SESSIONS

INTERVIEW ─ In an aesthetic ecosystem that favours monotone greys, this UK artist is bringing sexy back with bold colours

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Off the Record: Piers Faccini

ISSUE 15 | CÉVENNES | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW ─ On his latest record, “Our Calling”, the British-Italian artist joins Ballaké Sissoko to create an indelible mix of Euro-African folk traditions

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Steve Reich Collected Works

ISSUE 15 | LOS ANGELES | ENSEMBLE

A 27-disc box set delivers a life’s worth of music to a new generation of listeners

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Laura Fell

ISSUE 14 | ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW — On her latest EP, At Least I Tried, Fell swoops into new depths of introspection

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Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

ISSUE 15 | IN FOCUS

INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI

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Profile: Michael Kiwanuka’s Small Changes

ISSUE 14 | ALT.ITUDE

Without being overly verbose, Kiwanuka walks the line between being a narrative storyteller and purveyor of proverbs

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Indigenous Theatre at the NAC Turns 5

ISSUE 14 | OTTAWA | FOURTH WALL

INTERVIEW — Artistic Director Kevin Loring weighs in on performative land acknowledgements

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Warbling

ISSUE 14 | LONDON | SPACES

INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art

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King Cruff

ISSUE 14 | LONDON | HOMEGROWN

On his latest EP WHAT HAVE I ‘DON, Bob Marley’s grandson lays the foundation for his own reggae sound

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