Friday, Jan. 15 - Cult MTL

Essaie Pas

Montreal designer Travis Taddeo is cleaning out his closet with a special two-day Studio Session, with deals of 50–70 per cent off of women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, plus personal care products from Fabrique 27. 209 St-Paul W., #400

There’s a new bar in the Jean-Talon Market neighbourhood: Birra will be offering brews from local artisanal microbreweries plus whisky and other drinks, and a snack menu. Check out tonight’s launch party to get in on the ground floor. 7129 St-Laurent, 5 p.m. til late, free entry

2015 Giller Prize winner André Alexis stops by Drawn & Quarterly to read from his award-winning novel Fifteen Dogs, which follows a group of otherwise normal pooches who are granted human levels of intelligence by a pair of experimenting higher powers. 211 Bernard W., 7 p.m., free

It’s day two of Igloofest, and tonight Music Is My Sanctuary’s main man DJ Lexis presents a “U.K. Garage Forever” set for the wintry dance party crowd. Jacques Cartier Pier, 7:30–10:30 p.m., $25/$20 in advance

KickDrum’s Winter Marathon continues with SIX different shows tonight, but a couple of our favourite line-ups include Nanimal, Smokes, Hoan and No Aloha at Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent, 9 p.m., $10) and Fleece with Clay & Friends and Raveen at Reggie’s (1455 de Maisonneuve W., 9 p.m., $8). Check out the full list of shows here.

The Suoni per il Popolo festival and Blessed Poppy have organized a benefit show for Syrian refugees featuring Stephanie Creaghan’s three-screen video installation Heurtmas and live music by Essaie Pas (the Montreal synth duo that recently signed to DFA Records), Blankets and /||\||\. La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent), 10 p.m., PWYC

See our Event Listings for more concert, nightlife, theatre, comedy and community event options. See our Art Listings here.