By Burton Taylor
Lance Writer
July 13, 2010

Four days, 300 acts, 20 stages, and 150,000 people. These are the mind-boggling statistics for the Exit Festival.
California has Coachella, England has Glastonbury, and Eastern Europe has Exit. Every year, hundreds of thousands flock to beautiful and majestic Petrovaradin Fortress on the shore of the Danube River in Novi Sad, Serbia, to take in a half week of music at Exit Festival.
The festival was first organized by local student unions in 2000, and was, in part, a critique of the Milosevic regime. At first, the festival was a marathon lasting over a week, consisting of music, revelry, and political comment. Today, the festival is now a relatively lean half week of music with a little political dimension apparent to the dozens of thousands of concert goers. What has not been reduced was the variety of music on tap. There is, just to name a few, a Reggae stage, a Latino stage, the amphitheatre-like Dance Arena, that to cater any and to all music tastes. >>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor

July 17, 2010

From July 16-25, the Windsor International Fringe Festival will take over downtown Windsor, inside and outside, in a frenzy of performance art.
The Festival showcases a variety of performances including live theatre and other performing arts. Indoor theatre and other performing arts shows are held at the Capitol Theatre, located at 121 University Ave. W. The kids’ venue is at the Art Gallery of Windsor, located at 401 Riverside Dr.
Outdoor events include the Windsor International Buskers Festival on University Ave. from 4-10 p.m., July 16-25. The Chalk and Chocolate Festival takes place along University Ave. on July 17 and 18. Buskin’ to the Beat also takes place in various outdoor locations.
This year’s Festival features performances of all types for every interest. One particularly intriguing performance is Breaking Down in America, a one-man show from Los Angeles’ Patrick Devine. The hour-long spoken word/multimedia show takes the audience on a journey across the U.S. >>

By Clara Musca
Lance Writer
July 17, 2010

The Art Gallery of Windsor is proud to present a coming together of different Canadian works to bring audiences a new exhibit entitled “Elements of Being: Women and the Number 3”.
Located on the third floor of the gallery, this exhibit showcases oil paintings of women paired up with abstract pieces. The paintings are supposed to challenge audiences concerning differences between what is abstract and what is concrete, in an attempt to view the juxtaposed images as part of one universe. The pictures of women are easily recognizable as “female” and “human,” however the abstract pieces do not have such a concrete identity.
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth’s 1923 painting shows a young girl looking at herself in a mirror placed on the floor with a bird sitting on it. Beside this piece is Ron Martin’s “Untitled,” presenting an abyss of smeared warm colours, with red dominating. Essentially, it seems as though the abstract pieces present a space of thought originating from the female characters placed next to them. The abstract images are not viewed the same way as portraits because people tend to see personality, emotion, and a sense of past in living things.
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