Review: First Snow / Première Neige – Canada Hub at King’s Hall, Edinburgh

First published in The Times, Friday August 10 2018

Two Stars

The process of debating national identity that characterised the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence continues to make cultural waves in the four years since the vote. In Canada, Québécois artists have had an even longer interval to spend on their national post mortem. It is 23 years since the province held its second referendum on whether to declare independence, a plebiscite that resulted in a wafer-thin “no” vote.