2012
Urgently called to his mother’s bedside, teenager Wahab feels irrepressible anger well up inside him on the way to the hospital: a cry of despair at fate, a cry of guilt, the grief of losing his mother and even greater...
2012
“The place where you’re born and especially the place where you spend the first twenty years of your life mark the imagination and determine the permanent themes to come.” Lyse Casanova This exhibition features the Canadian artists’ engravings and collages....
2012
Meudon-Bellevue Vivienne Spiteri will be performing the works of John Cage, J. S. Bach-Pierre Schaeffer, Jean-Claude Risset, Louis Andriessen and Kaija Saariaho on the harpsichord. She will be accompanied for the occasion by the visual artist Geneviève Bonieux. Temple de...
2012
Vernissage, January 17, 6 p.m. The exhibition organized at the Galerie Théo de Seine provides the opportunity to open a dialogue on the theme of the sea between the works of Patrick Cady and the infinite spaces represented by France...
2012
Show for children aged three to six. At 10:00 a.m. Tuktu, the little caribou, finds himself alone in the plains of the tundra after a snowstorm. He then meets a young Inuit, who becomes his friend and shows him his...
2012
At the Canadian Cultural Centre, 7 p.m. Screening of the documentary followed by a debate. The story begins in Canada in 1610 with the arrival in Ontario of the Frenchman Étienne Brûlé. Considered the ancestor of Franco-Ontarians, Etienne Brûlé is...
2012
Sunday, January 22, 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. After their debut last season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra are back with a programme dedicated to Ravel featuring the charismatic Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci. Still in his...
2012
Born in London, Robin Collyer lives and works in Toronto. He will be presenting his exhibition Trees, photographies 1980-2012 at the Galerie Gilles Peyroulet until March 17, 2012.
2012
On tour in France After the release of a first EP in 2009 that was met with critical acclaim, Lindi Ortega completed a new full length record called « Little Red Boots » in June 2011. She’s no stranger to...
2012
This exhibition features several collections by Nicole Haché, whose works explore her environment and perception of her region: New Brunswick and more precisely the Acadian peninsula. The exhibition presents three collections: Explorer l’océan (fish), Parcourir les rivages (driftwood) and Résonance...
2012
Musée Réattu, Arles With the group exhibition Acte V, the Musée Réattu explores the theatricality of the building in which it is housed. Must-sees include the installation L’envers by Canadian artist Jocelyne Alloucherie. Using complex configurations, Alloucherie explores image, object...
2012
Robin Collyer, who was educated in a context of North American minimalist and conceptual art, has been producing photographs and sculptures since the 1970s. He often uses industrial materials, as well as objects and images from advertising and the media....
2012
The Festival International du Film d’Environnement offers the audience the chance to discover international programming, previously unreleased for the most part – full-length, medium-length and short films; documentaries and dramas – aiming to make the general public aware of environmental,...
2012
A girl, Lirane, lives comfortably with her parents; a boy, Ferhat, lives in a tent in a refugee camp, near Lirane’s home but on the other side of the border, with his mother and younger brothers. She is Israeli, he...
2012
After fifteen years of friendship, five albums and over six hundred concerts, Mes Aïeux are back with their new album, A l’aube du printemps, which is due to be released on March 30. The first track, “Viens-t’en” – available online...
2012
The Espace Culturel Inuit presents Observer les baleines : Pourquoi ? Comment ?, a lecture by Olivier Adam, a bioacoustician specializing in whales. In 2009 the International Whaling Commission suggested that certain species of whale could be used as indicators...
2012
Within the framework of Les Rencontres de l’Écriture Musicale au Féminin, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents a concert by the trio PIANOANDCO featuring the work of Canadian music composer Isabelle Panneton. The concert will include a performance of Récifs coralliens,...
2012
As part of the Nouveau Festival at the Centre Pompidou For seventeen days, the director Guy Maddin will be inviting Centre Pompidou visitors to witness the making of a new movie inspired by a lost film directed by the great...
2012
À l’occasion de la sortie en librairie du livre Contes inuit d’Emmanuelle Stimamiglio et Sylvie Teveny, illustré par Laura Guéry et publié aux Éditions Circonflexe, l’Espace culturel inuit, les éditions Circonflexe et le Centre Culturel Canadien sont heureux de vous inviter au Centre Culturel...
2012
On tour in France For over a decade, Constantinople has been exploring the oral traditions of Mediterranean cultures and the manuscript music of the Middle Ages. Some of the musical ensemble’s projects touch on the repertoires and practices of several...
2012
On tour in France Coeur de Pirate made a splash in the world of chanson française in 2008 with her self-titled debut album, which won her a Félix award for best debut artist, a Juno nomination and a place on...
2012
La compagnie des Ballets Jazz de Montréal est arrivée début mars sur le vieux continent pour une tournée européenne avec son programme intitulé « Chorégra’filles », composé des danses féminines Jack in a boxet Les Chambres des Jacques, chorégraphiées par Aszure Barton, ainsi...
2012
Forty years after the premiere of the play Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Tremblay, a milestone in the history of Quebec theatre, the director and lyricist René Richard Cyr transformed it into a musical with music by composer and singer Daniel...
2012
À partir de 15h à l’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, La cartoucherie 75012 Paris Focus sur l’émergence de la danse contemporaine montréalaise et des chorégraphes et danseurs québécois Benoît Lachambre, Daniel Léveillé et Frédérick Gravel. Ces rencontres invitent le public à...
2012
After a first exhibition at the Galerie de l’Europe in March 2011, Canadian photographer Denis Robert has found inspiration for his new work in water, the stuff of dreams. His poetic and remarkable treatment of the subject suggests uncertain figures,...
2012
// 7 p.m. – An evening with Michel Tremblay // On the occasion of the publication of his new novel La grande mêlée by Éditions Actes-Sud (in bookstores on March 7, 2012), the Canadian Cultural Centre will be hosting a...
2012
Auteur canadien d’origine métisse, David Bouchard explore avec subtilité des sujets tels que l’environnement, l’histoire, les traditions et la culture des communautés autochtones du Canada. Récompensé en 2004 d’un Prix littéraire du Gouverneur Général, sans compter les multiples nominations et...
2012
In partnership with the Canadian Cultural Centre Won over as much by the remarkable quality of its architecture as by its location facing the sea – or its long history of interweaving art and the surrounding landscape – Quebec artist...
2012
Since 1978, the Festival International de Films Documentaires Cinéma du Réel has been an important international event where the public and professionals discovers films by established directors and those by new talents, the history of documentary cinema and contemporary documentaries....
2012
Le Théâtre des Asphodèles et le Théâtre des Marronniers accueilleront huit compagnies théâtrales de Chicoutimi, Jonquière et La Baie au Québec pour un mini-festival de trois jours à l’image de la vitalité, le dynamisme et la créativité de la région...
2012
La « Galerie Parisienne », qui se consacre aux créations des années 1960-70, annonce le retour sur la scène française de l’artiste franco-canadien Hervé Fischer à travers une exposition monographique qui présente une quarantaine de ses œuvres « historiques » datant principalement des années...
2012
Dans le cadre de la Journée internationale de la Francophonie, le Groupe francophone auprès de l’UNESCO – regroupant plus de 70 pays – organise la 2e édition du festival « Voyage à travers les films », en partenariat avec la...