Children
Workshop – Le carrousel des animaux du Canada
2020
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Concert
CANCELED – Damien Robitaille
2020
On piano or guitar, Damien Robitaille is a key figure in Francophone-Canadian music. Born to an English-speaking mother and a French-speaking father in Ontario, he was 18 when he wrote his first songs in French. Since then, he has been...
Children
Workshop – Le carrousel des animaux du Canada
2020
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
Children
Holographic Workshop
2020
In partnership with filmmaker / director Benjamin Minot, during a 2-hour workshop, explore your unsuspected talents as a digital artist through the original creation of holographic images that will come to life in 3D on your smartphone. Bring back your own...
Encounter
The media against FakeNews: the tools for a fight
Canada-France Exchange
2020
Our democratic societies are confronted with the growing influence of “false information” and Fakenews, which flourish on social networks. Challenging our governments but also all the stakeholders in our societies, this “disinformation” forces us all to react. Canadians and French...
Performance
Solitudes Duo
Daniel Léveillé
2020
Avec “Solitudes duo”, Daniel Léveillé dresse en six duos un inventaire tourbillonnant de notre relation à l’autre et à nous-mêmes. Toujours ensemble, toujours solitaires. Ainsi va la vie, au fil des rencontres dansées avec passion et portées par une fougue...
Film
4th edition of the Global Migration Film Festival
2020
The Embassy of Canada in France, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM France), is proud to organize this evening as part of the 4th edition of the Global Migration Film Festival. Screening followed by a debate in...
Concert
CANCELED – Sugar shack season
Le vent du Nord
2020
The end of winter means it’s sugar shack season in Canada! To celebrate our 50th birthday, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to dive into the sugar shack vibe with a special evening of music and great food. So get...
Film
Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation
2020
For 18 years, the Cinémathèque Québécoise has been organizing Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal. This international festival is dedicated to animation in all its forms and presents each year close to a hundred international short animated films. The...
Film
Resumption of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
2020
Denis Villeneuve, David Cronenberg, Jean-Marc Vallée, Atom Egoyan… These great names in cinema share two things in common: they are Canadian and they first directed byshort films. For the 42nd edition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, from January...
Literature
David Chariandy
I Have Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
2020
Encounter with David Chariandy on the occasion of the publication of his book I Have Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (ZOE editions, February 2020). David Chariandy may have been born in Canada, but one day a woman...
Concert
Minor Pieces
2020
Minor Pieces is an amazing and charming new partnership between renowned composer Ian William Craig and singer and musician Missy Donaldson. Minor Pieces offers intense and emotionally charged compositions where their two voices echo each other.The group released their first album The Heavy...
Concert
Ponteix – Canceled
2020
This concert is canceled. The project PONTEIX of Fransaskois artist Mario Lepage disrupts musical conventions by mixing electronic cadences with indie rock and psyche-pop hues. PONTEIX breaks language barriers to give way to the most powerful element of music… emotions....
Concert
Cameron Crozman & Amy Hillis
2020
Native of Calgary, Cameron Crozman is, at 24 years old, one of the best Canadian cellists of the moment. Since the beginning of his career, he has won numerous awards, and has performed as a soloist at the most prestigious...
Exhibition
Human Learning
What Machines Teach Us
2020
Produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris as part of the official programme of Nemo, the Biennial of Electronic Arts Ile-de-France, in partnership with Elektra (Montreal) and with the support of Région Ile-de-France. Official opening February 4, starting at...
Film
Inside My Heart
2020
At the peak of the refugee and migrant crisis, three families are forced to flee war-torn Syria and Afghanistan, seeking safe harbour on foreign shores. In the wake of witnessing unthinkable atrocities and having the lives they’ve known wrested away,...
Exhibition
Jeremy Shaw
Phase Shifting Index
2020
Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw presents his first major museum exhibition in France with a groundbreaking project, Phase Shifting Index. This immersive sound installation is part of his Liminals trilogy, which revealed him at the Venice Biennale in 2017. It consists...
Film
Warsaw, a city divided
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2020
In 1941, shortly after the Nazis created the Warsaw ghetto, a Polish amateur filmmaker clandestinely made film about life on both sides of the ghetto walls. This unpublished archive has become the main theme of the documentary Warsaw: a divided...
Encounter
The Night of Ideas
What do machines teach us about our humanity?
2020
For its second participation at the Nuit des Idées (Night of Ideas), the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris invites you to an evening that combines reflections, discussions, artistic performances and cinema. Our multisensory program will allow us to explore the...
Film
CANCELED – Festival Vues d’Afrique
L'Éthiopie de mon cœur
2020
The festival Vues d’Afrique de Montréal presents a preview and exclusive screening of one of the movies from its 2020 selection at the Canadian Cultural Centre. The 36th edition of the Festival Vues d’Afrique will be held in Montreal from...
Literature
CANCELED – Marie-Ève Lacasse
Autobiographie de l'étranger
2020
Encounter with Marie-Ève Lacasse on the occasion of the publication of Autobiographie de l’étranger (Éditions Flammarion, March 2020). “At all times and in all places, I have often had this persistent feeling: being a stranger to the world. While I...
Concert
Emie R Roussel Trio
2020
The Emie R Roussel Trio is a major player on the current Canadian jazz scene and enjoys a dazzling rise since 2010. Made up of Emie R Roussel on the piano (Révélation Radio-Canada Jazz 2014-2015), Nicolas Bédard on bass and...
Film
Rêveuses de villes
2020
The documentary Rêveuses de ville showcases four exceptional architects, exemplary women, pioneers who – for decades – have worked, observed and shaped the cities of today and tomorrow. While architecture and urban planning enthusiasts already know Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco...
Literature
The weight of snow
Public reading and meeting with actress Geneviève Boivin and writer Christian Guay-Poliquin
2020
Canadian actress Geneviève Boivin and Canadian writer Christian Guay-Poliquin present a reading of the theatrical adaptation they produced based on the novel Le Poids de la Neige. Christian Guay-Poliquin’s Le Poids de la Neige (translated in many countries and awarded...
Film
Une Colonie
2020
Mylia, a shy and fierce child, is about to leave her native countryside for high school. In search of landmarks in this seemingly hostile environment, she will learn more about herself when she meets Jimmy, a young Indigeneous outsider from...
Film
L’Apollon de Gaza
2020
In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found off Gaza before disappearing under strange conditions. Counterfeiting or blessing of the gods for a Palestinian people in need of hope and recognition? Rumours soon fly while, various local and international...
Encounter
Our Heritage: models of repatriation. From colonial past to reconciliation, a conversation between Canada and Australia
2019
How can the restitution of a people’s heritage pave the way for reconciliation? This issue of restitution has long been debated in Canada and Australia, and the issue of the restitution of colonial artifacts has recently been in the news...
Film
4th edition of the Global Migration Film Festival – CANCELED
2019
CANCELED: This event is postponed. The Embassy of Canada in France, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM France), is proud to organize this evening as part of the 4th edition of the Global Migration Film Festival. Screening...
Concert
Musical Chistmas Evening
Come and listen to jazzman François Bourassa and singer Jeanne Rochette!
2019
As a pianist, composer and group leader, François Bourassa has been recognized, throughout his 30 years career, as an example of contemporary Canadian jazz on the international scene. Recognized for his fluid and avant-garde style as well as the spontaneity of his improvisations, he challenges himself...
Children
Writing Workshop – Ocean Journal
Le Labo des histoires
2019
This writing workshop invites children to write a text inspired by ocean issues as part of the new edition of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Prize. Inspired by the exploits of two exceptional sailors, Thomas Coville and François Gabart, young Francophones...
Encounter
Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage
2019
As part of its exhibition Displacements, the Canadian Cultural Centre is hosting a round table with Canadian artist Dominique Blain and French experts on the challenges of protecting cultural and human heritage. This evening will also be the occasion to launch the...
Concert
Dominique Fils-Aimé
Festival Aurores Montréal #7
2019
Dominique Fils-Aimé is a singer-songwriter from Montreal whose inspiration is drawn from soul icons of the 40’s and the 60’s the likes of Billie Holiday, Etta James and Nina Simone. On stage, she grips the audience with her sultry and...