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2019
Rayannah bends noise into music by running voice, breath, synth and percussion through loop pedals. Underscored by intricate beat-making, her evocative lyrics in French and English rise above dense soundscapes, pulling listeners into a world both dark and sweet. Born...
2019
This multidisciplinary event is part of an exceptional partnership between the Canadian Cultural Centre and Ars Nova, the extraordinary French musical ensemble led by Canadian conductor Jean-Michaël Lavoie. Ars Nova invites us to a multisensorial concert and opens the doors...
2019
In the presence of Gérard Le Chêne, Director of the Vues d’Afrique Festival. Created in Montreal in 1985, Vues d’Afrique has become the foremost festival disseminating cultural content and in particular audiovisual productions about Africa, Creole countries and their diasporas....
2019
Montreal native Martin Robidoux is pursuing his career as a harpsichordist, choir director, vocal coach, and musical director. A graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris,...
2019
Denis Villeneuve, David Cronenberg, Jean-Marc Vallée, Atom Egoyan—These famous figures of fimmaking have two things in common: they are Canadian and started out with short films. The 41st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, held from 1 to 9 February 2019,...
2019
In partnership with Baïka Magazine, the Canadian Cultural Centre proposes a children’s workshop for making totem poles inspired from West Coast First Nations. After a short introduction to Kwakwa Ka’wakw traditions, every child creates its own totem. A workshop animated by Noémie Monier, Chief Editor...
2019
In partnership with Baïka Magazine, the Canadian Cultural Centre proposes a children’s workshop for making totem poles inspired from West Coast First Nations. After a short introduction to Kwakwa Ka’wakw traditions, every child creates its own totem. A workshop animated by Noémie Monier, Chief Editor...
2018
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2018
Like other famous artists, such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, or Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) and American painter Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) were extraordinary talents and romantic partners. For the first time, an exhibition...
2018
This December, the 8th SoBD Fair focuses on Canadian comics: seven French and English-speaking Canadian cartoonists will be there, including such contemporary luminaries as Seth and Chester Brown. Some Canadian scholars in graphic narrative studies will take part in discussions on...
2018
As part of the 6th edition of the Festival Aurores Montréal, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents the artist Elisapie for two concerts on December 6 and 7. Ambassador of Inuit culture, Elisapie represents the beauty of the Far North, a...
2018
Before her concert at 20:00, screening of the film If the Weather Permits, directed by Elisapie Isaac in 2003 and produced by the NFB followed by an interview with the artist. This short documentary studies life in the village of...
2018
In the presence of Damien Aubel, film and art editor at Transfuge. French and Canadian artist Michèle Waquant is also a professor at the art schools in Dijon and Cergy Pontoise. Her multidisciplinary practice (video, photography, painting, drawing and writing)...
2018
Opera Atelier Toronto is back at Opéra Royal of Versailles and will present the hunting opera in six scenes, Actéon by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composed in 1684 and the ballet act, Pygmalion by Jean-Philippe Rameau, composed in 1748. Two performances directed by Marshall...
2018
Curator : Stéphanie Moisdon For his first solo exhibition at an institution, Mathieu Malouf, (b. 1984 in Montreal, lives and works in New York) presents a group of paintings and sculptures retracing the last five years of his production as well...
2018
Hichem Khalfa concert, as part of Jazzycolors Festival, initially planned on Tuesday 20 November at 20:00 has been canceled. As part of Festival Jazzycolors, Hichem Khalfa takes us through a modern sound created by the mix of influences: sometimes...
2018
As part of the Jazzycolors Festival, Jean-Philippe Sylvestre’s classical programme will include some pieces by Gershwin and other composers who will bring in a jazzy touch to this recital. In 2008, Jean-Philippe Sylvestre received the highest award granted by the...
2018
In the presence of Marcel Jean, director of the Cinémathèque Québécoise and artistic director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The Canadian Cultural Centre is launching an annual partnership with the Cinémathèque Québécoise focusing on animation. For 16 years,...
2018
As part of Paris Photo, the Canadian Cultural Centre will be open on Saturday, November 10 from 10:00 to 18:00. Discover Maria Hupfield’s exhibition The One Who Keeps on Giving.
2018
With her warm-timbred voice, Lithuanian-born Indré reached the semi-final of the prestigious Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition 2016. She started out at the jazz school in Vilnius as part of an a cappella group, and her polyphonic training allowed her...
2018
Young Bérénice Einberg, whom everything swallows, is the heroine of Réjean Ducharme’s L’Avalée des avalés, the author’s first published work and a cult novel. Bérénice Einberg lives with her parents and a brother she loves on an island in suburban...
2018
In a special concert at the Salle Pleyel, Pierre Lapointe will be presenting his latest album, La Science du cœur. His lyrics go straight to the heart and soul, inviting us into his world, one without artifice or shame. His...
2018
Random Recipe celebrates it 10th anniversary with Distractions, a resolutely independent third album that was crowdfunded and inspired by the hundreds of concerts played on several continents. Now a trio, the group strongly reaffirms its off-the-wall musical identity thanks to...
2018
In the presence of Jean-Michaël Lavoie, conductor and artistic director of Ars Nova, and of composer Jean-François Laporte As part of the exceptional partnership that brings together the Canadian Cultural Centre and Ars Nova throughout the year, the French instrumental...
2018
Founded in 1963, Ars Nova is the oldest French contemporary music ensemble. Since the beginning of this year, Canadian composer Jean-Michaël Lavoie has been the ensemble’s artistic director. The evening will take a form different from a traditional concert. It...
2018
This year, the 47th edition of the Festival d’Automne in Paris will feature a portrait of the Canadian composer Claude Vivier. Vivier (1948–1983), whose work is still-little known in France, had been close to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gérard Grisey. He...
2018
Opening Tuesday September 25, 2018, from 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm (last entrance 8:00 pm) as part of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères. At 7.00 pm, performance by Maria Hupfield with Nive Nielsen, Inuk artist, singer and actress from Greenland...
2018
As part of Maria Hupfield’s exhibition, The One Who Keeps On Giving, which opens on September 25, and the performance in collaboration with Greenlandic Inuk artist Nive Nielsen (and her group, The Deer Children), Claire Astier has devised a series...
2018
Hailing from Nuuk, Greenland, Nive Nielsen – an Inuk songwriter, musician, singer and actress – has a connection to Canada, where she studied anthropology. She also stands up for the Indigenous traditions of the Far North, from which she draws...
2018
The ninth edition of Festival America gives pride of place to Canada and its literature, inviting thirty or so Anglophone and Francophone Canadian authors, including Patrick deWitt, Iain Reid, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Nicolas Dickner, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Naomi Fontaine, Nancy Huston and...
2018
The American-Canadian photographer Dave Heath, who died in Toronto in 2016, holds a unique place in the history of American photography and was influenced by Eugene W. Smith and the masters of the Chicago school. In the 1950s, he was...
2018
Their musical vocabulary and improvisational style firmly place the musicians of Misc in the jazz tradition. This does not stop them from drawing on elements of pop and rock. These influences, which have marked a new generation of jazzmen, find...