To close off our last Friday evening together in Montreal, we attended the new film release of Cirque du Soleil’s production Worlds Away. As a principle at the Montreal Campus, we encourage students to delve into anything local and Cirque du Soleil is indeed one of Quebec’s greatest exports. Continue reading
On a recent Friday evening, students came together and ushered in their weekend by challenging themselves to something new, culturally different, and both mentally and physically demanding- we attended a hot yoga class. The majority of the gang had never attempted a regular yoga class (performed at room temperature). In a rather full studio we […]
Continue readingA very rich Canadian experience that many Canadians themselves don’t get around to trying is the wonderfully charming sport of curling. This sport began in Scotland as a spinoff of land bowling in the wintertime. Since there are deep Scottish roots in Montreal (and the rest of Canada for that matter) there are a good […]
Continue readingHello, readers~ Liznel here and I’m sad to say that this is going to be my final blog post for the Montreal Abroad blog. It’s hard to believe that a semester has already passed. Finals are due next week and everyone is working hard to finish their projects and study for the rest of their […]
Continue readingThis semester, the Champlain Montreal community spent the pre-Halloween weekend putting their heads together in the lab and turning out a game in under 48 hours for the Game Jam put on in Burlington. For this reason we chose the come together on Wednesday the 31st of October and celebrate Halloween in true fashion- by […]
Continue readingDavid Giraud’s School of ZBrush and Wizardry The 3D Modeling 2 class was recently visited by David Giraud perhaps better known by some as his online handle Mojette. David is a professional ZBrush wizard and was kind enough to share with us some of his art talk to us about his artistic process and making […]
Continue readingLast Wednesday we jumped on a rather random mid-Wednesday opportunity to view a very special work of art by a very special painter- Salvador Dali. Dali was known for painting rather large surrealist paintings with fascinating and busy content. What made this work of art unique are two exceptional characteristics; the painting was 45 feet […]
Continue readingWhen we attended Where the Blood Mixes, the overall quality of the event was very good indeed. The small setting allowed for everything to feel much more intimate, and how close we sat to the actors also made things much more dramatic. I liked the story of how, a very tragic event in a small […]
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Hello, readers. For this week’s blog I’ll be talking about part of our first group trip outside of Montreal. From October 5thto the 7th, we went to the capital of Quebec, Quebec City. I won’t cover much of Friday’s events because I my co-blogger Evan is going to cover that date. But suffice to say, we arrived in Quebec City with no problems; the Greyhound bus we took to get there was comfortable and the ride wasn’t very long, two hours at the most. Continue reading
The next trip we took was for the entire Montréal crew, and it was no laughing matter. Sadly, this semester, the live Cirque du Soleil show is not showing while we are in Montreal, but we did get the next best thing (maybe even better): a tour of the Cirque’s very own studios and headquarters. […]
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