Bienvenue / Welcome.
Bienvenue/Welcome is a bilingual publication printed on the ubiquitous place mats found at diners in Montreal. It is an effort to provide inspiring material in a medium that is both unconventional and everyday. It recalls mornings of breakfast made fun with facts and games printed on the backs of cereal boxes, and it plays with the idea that a leisurely meal is also the best time to digest information. Diners are crossroads for an ever-expanding spectrum of city-dwellers.
Montreal’s historic “two solitudes”—anglophones and francophones—are just two parts of the city’s demographic. Immigration has thrown the city’s makeup into flux. Diners, known in Quebec as casse-croûtes, are a quintessentially North American institution. However, their informality, low prices and long business hours unite hungry people from all walks of life, making them a site of cultural exchange. Montreal’s textured array of identities converge and occasionally clash in these unique spaces, often yielding surprising and amusing results. Bienvenue wants to explore the individuals, objects (and meals) that create Montreal, and invites all those who encounter it to explore it as well. It can be found in select diners across the city.
http://bienvenuewelcome.tumblr.com/
@ POP Quarters : each day of festival.
@ SAT café : september 23 - 25th
@ various diners across the city : forever!
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Ming Lin studies anthropology and art history at McGill University. She is interested in the role objects play in everyday life, in constructing meaning and identity, and how our investigation of them can lead to new frameworks for looking at art. Ming started collecting Montreal diner placemats years ago and has enjoyed getting to know the city though its various culinary offerings.
a freelance writer and the associate editor of Maisonneuve magazine.
Hilary Ison:
"Currently nursing a sourdough while her undergraduate degree is crowning, Hilary Ison is a food-obsessed student and singer."
Aditi Ohri:
" Aditi Ohri is not a girl, not yet a woman. All she needs is time and a glass of fine red wine, while she eats poutine. "