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Article: Many evangelical protestants in Quebec are French, urban and hip: christian arts festival comes to Montreal.(canadian news)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- March 1, 2004
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There are not many evangelical Protestants in Quebec, but an upcoming arts festival in Montreal demonstrates that some of them are urban, hip and grounded in Quebec's French-language culture. OK, it's true the organizers of Transformation: Arts, Christ and Culture, March 18-24, are bringing in a keynote speaker from the U.S. Bible Belt (he's originally from England); but Colin Harbinson, dean of arts at a Christian liberal arts college in Mississippi, stands out in a group of otherwise local painters, filmmakers and musicians who straddle the linguistic divide nicely.
It will not be Harbinson's first visit to Quebec. In 1979, fresh from England, he taught briefly ...