All that talk about emergency ponchos, and what do I fail to bring?
In actuality, by the time it began showering intermittently toward the end of the night, it was time for a cool down. You would never know the summer was on it’s way out by the mid July-like sun and humidity that we enjoyed all day. Perfection.
FME’s opening day is always a day of anticipation, reunions and new introductions.
After a brief visit to the bustling FME nerve center, »La Maison En Sol Mineur », to pick up our passes, we headed back to the outside venue at 7e Rue.
…Just in time to witness the opening ceremony. A beautifully bizarre pagan procession led by an 8 foot tall, hooved ballerina with massive antlers and a sandpipers bill. This stunning chimeric symbol of this year’s festival, and indeed the whole unified artistic vision from typesets to set dressings is the brainchild of Karine Berthiaume. She is one of the founders of FME and it’s Artistic Director…

…more shortly,

Zeus