All posts on October 30th, 2014

“Love for gas. Gas for cash. Cash for living. Living for love.”     It’s a story that is universal and specific, about survival at any cost and balancing dreams versus reality. Gas Girls is a politically charged play chronicling the lives of Gigi and Lola, two teenage prostitutes who are paid in gasoline, which their pimp then converts to cash. Despite having wildly different personalities, Gigi, the eldest of the two, is somewhat hardened, while Lola exudes a youthful naiveté despite being 15-years-old. The young women rely on each other as they navigate the sex trade and try to …

The Road Home Contact Staff In the preface of MONTREAL’S OLDEST BLACK CONGREGATION, the late educator, author and historian Dr. Leo W. Bertley, writes, “Union Church is one of the cornerstones on which the modern Black population of Montreal is founded… At the moment, it is facing one of its most important challenges. Its home for more than 60 years has been expropriated, will be destroyed and be replaced by a subway station…” One of these predictions has come to fruition with the construction of Lionel Groulx metro station, but Union United Church is still standing. However, as much as …