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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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...
2011
Théâtre du Rond-Point Nothing is straightforward in the world of Lewis Furey. Neither in his career nor on his tours. Recital or show, concert or retrospective, the Selected Songs Recital marks the return of a great singer. His songs have...
2011
For his return to directing, Jeannot Painchaud proposes a show filled with daring and modernity. iD combines the circus arts and those of urban dances such as b-boying/b-girling, breakdancing and hip hop. The action of iD takes place in the...
2011
From December 14 to December 23, Tarmac in Paris February 16 and 17 Théâtre Jean Vilar in Paris Nuit dorage is a creation of the Carousel, adapted and staged by Gervais Gaudreault according to the work of the Quebecois illustrator...
2011
The Canadian delegation presents the artists (painters and sculptors) selected for the 2011 edition for a week. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 11, at 6 p.m. Salle Le Nôtre, Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli...
2011
Formé de Marianne Houle, François Lessard et Mathieu Collette, Monogrenade voit le jour en 2008. En novembre 2010, le groupe participe à l’événement M pour Montréal et assure avec un spectacle étonnant. Les délégués français présents n’en reviennent tout simplement...
2011
Heureux mélange de questionnements philosophiques et de rock’n’roll toujours aussi percutant, le groupe présente ses treize pièces comme des tableaux dessinant chacune de leurs réflexions. Ils viennent présenter Dans la gueule des jours, leur dernier opus pendant le mois de...
2011
Vernissage: Wednesday, December 7, from 6 p.m. “The origin of my research has always been nature and stone – at the source of memory – witnesses of humanity. I use archetypal images, symbols and lines from the environment. As in...
2011
Fred Pellerin is a fabulous storyteller whom we’d like to call “Pellerin the Enchanter” as he is so bewitching. Unknown in France until recently, the Quebecker is back with his new show, “L’arracheur de temps”. This subtle storyteller, singer, narrator...
2011
Adapted from the novel by Nancy Huston, Lignes de faille takes us back in time, from 2004 to 1944, from post-9/11 New York to Second World War Germany, through the voice of four generations of a family. We meet them...
2011
Discover Quebec author and illustrator Stéphane Poulin and his latest book, Au pays de la Mémoire blanche. La cité, le Centre des Congres 5 rue de Valmy 44000 Nantes
2011
Vernissage, November 5, from 4 p.m. at Galerie Isabelle Gounod “I drew a parallel between ‘l’engagement’ [commitment] and ‘langage ment’ [language lies] or, I should say, I oppose ‘l’engagement’ and ‘langage ment’. Using fairly large black and white digital prints...
2011
In partnership with the Canadian cultural centre, the “Musée international des Arts Modestes” de Sète is showing the collective exhibition “My Winnipeg” which took place in “la Maison Rouge” in Paris last summer. Winnipeg is a prime example of how...
2011
Corteo (which means “cortège” in Italian) is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. Combining acrobatic feats, comedy and acting, Corteo takes the audiences into a theatrical world of fun and spontaneity, located in a strange space...
2011
Author: Michel Tremblay – Director: Christian Bordeleau – Cast: Cécile Magnet, Yves Collignon, Sophie Parel, Marie Mainchin. We are in the family kitchen. Manon and Carmen, two sisters aged 24 and 25, meet again and take stock 10 years after the events...
2011
The novel Le rêve de la montagne d’or by Ling Zhang will be in the bookshops on November 3, 2011. On this occasion, Ling Zhang will be at the Foire du Livre de Brive, November 4–6, 2011. “In 2004, Emmy...
2011
Brigitte Alepin, Harvard expert on fiscal matters, will discuss with Sophie Fay of the Nouvel Observateur on the looming fiscal crisis. Brigitte Alepin is an Harvard graduate and a specialist in fiscal policies, environmental taxation and public finances. She is...
2011
Between intimist rock / folk songs and pop delicate, Sylvain Verte spreads on stage, heat and emotion, he evokes his vision of the life, under the shape of small paintings where get free feelings of tenderness, enjoyment… and revolt. Discover...
2011
The Opéra National de Nancy presents Le Sacre du printemps choreographed by Ginette Laurin Originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Le Sacre du printemps (1910–13) has since been revisited by the great choreographers, including Maurice Béjart...
2011
For the last 7 years Lyon welcomes the festival SPONTANéOUS. It has for vocation to celebrate and to encourage the spontaneous creation during a week: every evening allows to discover a new size of improvised entertainment. And how to speak...